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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
It is all to easy these days to use and apply the term "workshy" on people that you don't know and have no idea of their personal circumstance. For me and my family just to maintain our benefit standard of living i need to earn £14,000 a year. Most jobs where i live are in the £10,000 - £12,000 range and i would not be able to manage. I am not alone in this equation it applies to many thoudans of people in the UK.
Before anyone says that benefit gives too good a standard living it doesn't standard of living is not great but liveable where it impacts is things like rent and council tax and in my case prescriptions which would amount to about an extra £500 a month and while that doesn't sound a lot to some of you it's enough to complicate the situation.
Also before anyone says in work benefits wouldn't cover it all and i have discussed this with someone who is now a friend at the jobcentre. This government has it's reasons for wanting to stir up trouble on the benefit front and biggest reason is they have used all the other benefits over the years to hide unemployment and now it is coming home to roost.
But rather then admit bad handling no we will slap a label on all claimants and get public opinion against them so no one says a thing when we hit them all hard.
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Bang on there its all been propoganda to manipulate the massess constant news reports about those on incapacity benefits and other reports saying all claimaints of any unemployment benefit has it too easy. When the real truth is the lowest paid jobs dont offer a liveable wage. They trying to give the impression peoples taxes are going to fund social welfare when in reality in 2008 alone its predicted over 100billion pound is going to be injected into the banking sector (seen any news reports on this?) making unemployments benefits seem like pennies.
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Originally Posted by Ramrod
What jobs are those?
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80% of unskilled jobs in my area are under 14k a year. Even semi skilled jobs are in the same wage bracket.