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Better off on benefits?
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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.
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.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.// 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.
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.
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.
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.
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"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 ...
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"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