Benefits-scrounging off the system?

[Angel_love]

People with benefits I feel are being victimised, I feel especially with 'mental health patients' like I have been are coming out of a serious illness worse off. In a system that never put much money 'in' why should we be the ones with the guilt complex, whist depending more on our benefits now than before. Theres no use telling us what we can't study, or do for a job. I'm not getting any younger at 23 and have found sticking to voluntary jobs and courses meaning to 'get me back to work' have left me more depressed, confused and unfufilled, whilst having to rely on my parents to keep a roof over my head. There has been no incentive from employers to help me 'trian on the job' ethier their always too busy keeping thier jobs.

[cassa333]

At the last count I didn't think that employers had a responsibility as social workers.

Employers are in business to make money. They do that by selling goods or offering a service that other people want. Those other poeple then pay for said goods or services.

What is the incentive to offer you or anyone else a job for any hours less than he needs? What is his incentive to train (and pay to train) you or anyone else to do a job he can (probably) get someone knowledgeable to do? What is his incentive to offer you or anyone else with health issues a job?

There are no dought genuine cases where the benifit claiment needs ongoing help. These people should of course be helped and cared for. There are however a HUGE amount of people that have realised that the benifit system to be generious in the extreem and have not found the self respect and pride in themselves to feel it necessary to earn a living.

At just 23 years old I find your comment " I'm not getting any younger at 23" pathetic. If you had been in your 50s I could understand this comment but you are not.

There are depressed, confused and unfulfilled people that work. It is not the reserve of the mentaly ill or unemployed.

[Angel_love]

I have worked and it's been very hard trying to work, study and deal with my illness on my own at the same time. Why should my parents have had to care for me and keep me afloat? I'm not pathetic and it's this 'attitude' that I've sat on my arse all my life that all the greedy buggers in this country think that somehow we get the help and money we need to recover we don't we're just left. When I'm given a chance, I use it and work hard but consultants and social workers don't bother with you for months until you ring them and then they hand you out more pills just to say their doing their job. I've suffered on and off with mental illness since 13yrs old and the only way my parents could put me back in a school was to quickly diagniose me with something and get my nan to pay out about £1000 or so.