Help for the over 25's??

[Lakitu]

Yesterday, Alistair Darling announced all these initiatives to help the under 25's find work, apprentice schemes and the like.

What about us over 25's who are out of work, can't feed ourselves and/or our family and with our homes at risk? Us who have paid our taxes for years and years, the taxes that are now bailing out the waste of space banks?

Do we not matter anymore? Are we not considered worthy of help?

[jake-the-peg]

What you mean apart from:

Back to Work Allowance
Back to Work Enterprise Allowance
Work and Jobseeker's Allowance
Mortgage interest relief?

but more specifically there is "new deal plus" for over 25s
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/life/emplo yment/government_employment_schemes.htm#Traini ng_schemes

The specific initiatives for the under 25s reflect concern that younger people without experience may find it harder to land jobs than older people who already have a trade and/or experience

[Lakitu]

I don't qualify for all of those, Jake, I'm sure I'm not the only one. As for your link.....18 months? So after struggling because I don't qulify for their oh so helpful allowances I'm supposed to sit tight, take the job knock backs on the chin for 18 months before the Government will help?

Nice.

[rinkins]

Hi Lakitu! x

[4getmenot]

sorry but the people in work seem to be out of pocket more than the people out of work. I work full time and I really struggle to pay mortgage and bills etc, where as people out of work get council homes that get bigger the more kids they have and seem to have sky, games consoles, plasma tv screens...... I wonder how I;ll ever manage when I want babies as I wont be able to afford to leave my job

[tamborine]

can't believe people cant afford food in UK. Sell the pc - that'll raise food-money.

[Lakitu]

Hi Rinkins.

4get, I can assure you, you're not worse off. Those people are a minority that suck the taxpayers dry.

I'm going to have to sell my house and I spoke to a houseing officer who has told me that I will be joining a 2 years waiting list for housing, in the meantime, I'll be staying at the homeless shelter.

So, it's not as easy as asking for a house and getting it just like that.

[naomi24]

........... in the short term. Once the money from that is gone, then what?

[Lakitu]

Exactly, Naomi.

[naomi24]

Sorry, we cross posted, Lakitu. My reply was to tamborine.

[Lakitu]

I know :o) x

[naomi24]

Oops. Did it again! :o)

[bigmamma]

You sound at rock bottom Lakitu honey , this is awful sweetie . Have you any relatives nearby ? xxxxx

[4getmenot]

not a minority round here. They all seem to be like it. But I guess at least I will have something at the end of it. My mate other day got upset she didnt have money to send her child to childcare each week and then asked me where she could get a wii fit from. I know its not as easy as that but its seems to be the way round here that if you have kids you get a house. One mate of mine had to move her child to another county and away from her school because she couldnt get a house and not because there wernt any but because the portuguese were taking them all. I just wonder if I left work to have children whether I would get a house so quick if I lost my home that I had saved money to buy

[jake-the-peg]

If you've "paid your taxes for years and years" why don't you qualify for contribution based Job Seekers Allowance?

http://www.workingrights.co.uk/UnemploymentBen efit.html

[4getmenot]

have babies that usually works. lol

[4getmenot]

Can you not get a job to be able to rent?

[jake-the-peg]

PS I am sympathetic I was made redundant with two kids under the age of 2 15 years or so ago and it was about 6 months until I managed to get another job.

Just can't quite see how you can not qualify for anything

[Lakitu]

I didn't say I don't qualify for anything, just not all of those allowances.

4get, if I could get a job I wouldn't be in this position.

[tamborine]

loaf 30p, jam 30p in Tesco - that'll feed one for a few days. 1940s rationing diet!

[Lakitu]

I don't know where YOU shop, tambourine, but the shops around here don't sell loaf for 30p.