Unemployed Face Work Scheme Or Sanctions

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The long-term unemployed will only receive their benefits if they sign on at a jobcentre every day or commit to a six-month stint of voluntary work under the Government's new Help to Work scheme.

Prime Minister David Cameron says the scheme is designed to ensure "that everyone who can work is in work".

Ministers claim there are more than 600,000 vacancies in the economy at any one time, saying the new measures are intended to help unemployed people fill them.

The voluntary work could include gardening projects, running community cafes or restoring historical sites and war memorials.

The placements will be for up to six months for 30 hours a week and will be backed up by at least four hours of supported job searching each week.

Mr Cameron said: "A key part of our long-term economic plan is to move to full employment, making sure that everyone who can work is in work.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/unemployed-face-scheme-sanctions-015246230.html

[super jumbe]

Sanctions for the unemployed, so we are all treated as criminals, we have to go and sign on every day instead our govt investing on jobs!!

[Snowy79]

Seems like a good idea to me. That way the workers won't be infringing their human rights by calling them lazy skiving gits. It will also free up a lot of the black market jobs as they will have to keep leaving their work to sign on.

[super jumbe]

Not workable, I live 4miles from job centre, only 2 buses travel in a week, no 1 will give me lift to and from they will stop my money I am dead for starvation were is my human rights?

[Snowy79]

An eight mile walk could do your health the World of good. I've been to plenty of countries where they walk that just to get clean water. Even nurses on average walk 8 miles per day around the wards. Then there's postmen, meter readers, milkmen etc.

[GastonJ]

While we do need to get those working that don't want to work I fail to see how getting people to work 30 hours a week for their money is going to help them actually get a job, or do the Tory party class people doing voluntary work as being employed? How does working 30 hours a week on the "Help to Work scheme." actually help - unless that 30 hours a week is spent retraining for a real job instead of, as I suspect, doing menial jobs like stacking shelves in supermarkets where the employer can't even be bothered to pay minimum wage let alone a living wage?

I would suspect by

Prime Minister David Cameron says the scheme is designed to ensure "that everyone who can work is in work".

- he means that the government can count this as everyone on such a scheme as being employed and therefore the Tory party can pat itself on the back and say 100% employment has been achieved?

[Meat-Head]

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[super jumbe]

An eight mile walk could do your health the World of good. I've been to plenty of countries where they walk that just to get clean water. Even nurses on average walk 8 miles per day around the wards. Then there's postmen, meter readers, milkmen etc.

This is not a one day marathon walk; most unemployed already sick people can not walk at all, our govt have no resources at present time, in 90s we were told to take an apprentice leading to work, the only solution I can see is to get the unemployed to take govt jobs with a payment of small bonus on top of the dole money.

[Snowy79]

Those unable to walk I'm sure will get some sort of mobility allowance but I think they're targetting those not wanting to work or who have made themselves unemployable. The Country caused they're own problems by giving people benefits for nothing in the first place. It should have been a case of you get nothing then if you take on any work whether it's clearing rubbish or picking up dog shi@ you get enough money to pay your council rent and enough for a couple of meals per day. The average worker by the time they've paid their own rent and taxes etc are in lot of cases worse off than those unemployed. It makes my shi@ itch hearing people on the dole moaning that they'll not work for ?20 per week more than they get on the dole. I'd love to be able to sit on my ars@ and take a ?20 pay cut.

[gc1966]

"I'd love to be able to sit on my ars@ and take a ?20 pay cut"

fine sentiment but what if that twenty pounds already represented 25% to 30% of your weekly benefit payment.

[Snowy79]

Add to this the housing benefit etc and you'll find it's no where near 25 - 30%. I think under the new benefits cap a single person on basic benefits gets up to ?350 per week and for couples ?500. Better than a lot of people who work a 40hr week or in my case 50hrs. You never hear the long term unemployed saying " It's slave labour being forced to stack shelves for ?350 per week" They conveniently forget they get free accomodation.

"I'd love to be able to sit on my ars@ and take a ?20 pay cut"

fine sentiment but what if that twenty pounds already represented 25% to 30% of your weekly benefit payment.

[rds60h]

Add to this the housing benefit etc and you'll find it's no where near 25 - 30%. I think under the new benefits cap a single person on basic benefits gets up to ?350 per week and for couples ?500. Better than a lot of people who work a 40hr week or in my case 50hrs. You never hear the long term unemployed saying " It's slave labour being forced to stack shelves for ?350 per week" They conveniently forget they get free accomodation.

Not if they have a mortgage !!! The figures you quote are the maximums, which in the majority of cases is no where near the reality they are the media quotes to enrage those in work, many of whom are just a small step away from being the next one claiming those benefits.
As for your previous post stating "It should have been a case of you get nothing then if you take on any work whether it's clearing rubbish or picking up dog shi@ you get enough money to pay your council rent and enough for a couple of meals per day. The average worker by the time they've paid their own rent and taxes etc are in lot of cases worse off than those unemployed."
There are many in work now who cannot achieve that, that is not the benefits system at fault, that is the fact that employers are allowed to get away with not paying a living wage..................................Try taking your rage out on them as they are the real culprits !!

[firestorm]

Are they going to pay them minim wage ?6.31 x 30 = ?189.30 plus working tax credits and help with there rent.
Or are they just trying to impose slave labour on the people who are unfortunate to find them selves unemployed.

[gc1966]

Add to this the housing benefit etc and you'll find it's no where near 25 - 30%. I think under the new benefits cap a single person on basic benefits gets up to ?350 per week and for couples ?500. Better than a lot of people who work a 40hr week or in my case 50hrs. You never hear the long term unemployed saying " It's slave labour being forced to stack shelves for ?350 per week" They conveniently forget they get free accomodation.

so everyone who is unemployed lives in their own home,what about those that live at home with their parent or parents,sometimes doing a carers job for their own kin,when will this govt and a selection of the masses understand unemployment in the long term does not make people into workshy fops.

[ifred]

Meaty going to run a drive you pass your job centre daily service no promise he will stop to let you sign though!

! How about getting a 30 hour a week voluntary work running a community kitchen, handing out hot soup outside the job centres