Better off on benefits?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ned-haulage-boss.html

Isn't it time for the total amount of benefits one could receive, was linked to the minimum wage?

That way people would be only too pleased to come off benefits, so as to better themselves.

[Greedyfly]

I was only to pleased to come off benefits seeing as they only paid for my food whilst I could not work and didn't cover say rent/bills etc...

[mollykins]

And I don't think you should get more benfits for having more children, your boss wouldn't be happy if you demanded more money for working if you had another baby because it doesn't go as far . . .

[mollykins]

i saw something where one person had more children just so they could get more money, but you wouldn't want the chidlren to suffer because of the parents greed, it's a tricky situation.

[Gromit]

// claiming he could get more money on benefits by 'sitting around at home'.

The problem with this article is that it is based on a claim from a man who did not want the job. There is no attempt to work out if the claim is true. If his totally weekly benefits are above £500 how many children must he have? how much will he have to pay in rent and council tax?

I know people who live on benefits and don't want a job. They do not get £500 a week, but it frees their time to do cash in hand jobs to suppliment their benefit.

[petal54]

I was on 'unemloyment' for a while, & if i'd been offered a job & turned it down I'd've not been allowed to continue on benefit

[sara3]

Gromit, that would be a criminal offence.

[trt]

Surely when the job center finds out he turned the job down his benefits will stop, that's how it used to work in the past?

[rov1200]

If the truth is known its probably nothing to do with benefits. If he has been sitting around at home for 18 months its probably only the wife that has been giving him instructions. There are many out there who hate taking orders from anybody and to take the discipline of getting up early, spending nights away from home is probably a bit too much.

[TCL-MUMPING]

If the person is on Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) and he has not shown good cause for refusing employment, his benefit could be suspended for a maximum of twenty-six weeks or the period the employment would have lasted if less than twenty-six weeks. As he had been offered the job rather than just failed to apply for it, the chances are the maximum sanction would be applied in this case.

[TCL-MUMPING]

I should add that the sanction would be imposed ONLY if the vacancy had been notified by an Employment Officer (usually at the Jobcentre) so if he had found the vacancy by himsel and then decided to refuse the offer, no action would be taken against him,

[rov1200]

Has anyone who has been to a job centre ever got a decent job from there? My past experiences found they were the lowest paid and employers too tight to use private agencies..

[modeller]

I can remember interviewing people for jobs who didn't want a job . They only wanted me to sign their form to confirm they had failed to get the job , so they could remain on benefit .

[joggerjayne]

Aaah ... the good old Daily Mail !!!

"Eeee lad, it weren't like that in my day"

... said esteemed Editor, PaulDacre.

In the meantime, opinion was divided about Mr Dacre's journalistic merits ...

http://www.angrymob.u...5-paul-dacre-must-die

[joggerjayne]

ps ... LOL