New crackdown on longterm jobless

[k69atie]

Long-term unemployed with "can work, won't work" attitudes face a crackdown.

Ministers believe a "hardcore" of benefit claimants are failing to compete for jobs with growing numbers of immigrants.

Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton will insist in a speech today that "opportunities are out there" for people who want employment.

According to Government figures, around 950,000 people claimed Jobseeker's Allowance last month.

Nearly 100,000 of those are thought to have spent six of the past seven years on benefits.


The initiative is expected to raise concern among Labour MPs, many of whom oppose moves to try and force people off benefits.

Ministers have admitted that early estimates for the number of immigrants who would come to the UK from new EU member states were far too low.

More than 500,000 have arrived from Poland and other countries since 2004, dwarfing the Home Office prediction of around 13,000.

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Philip Hammond said: "After 10 years to make good on Labour's promise of welfare reform, this 11th hour assault has more to do with Labour's internal feuding than with a genuine attempt to help people back to work."

Source: www.skynews.co.uk

 

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What is your opinion on this "bollocks"?

 

[k69atie]

i think they should make people who have been on the dole for more than 2 years who can work do community service to earn their money. why should i pay for them to sit at home on their arse all day?

 

[stefanwzyga]

i think they should make people who have been on the dole for more than 2 years who can work do community service to earn their money. why should i pay for them to sit at home on their arse all day?

I agree.:thumb: (for once)

I know of plenty bums who sit around on the dole for years and its folks like you and me who are the ones paying those lazy bastards to do just that.

Community service is the way forward to the obvious candidates.

 

[k69atie]

LOl bloody hell i think this is the first time you have agreed with me about anything! :laugh:

It annoys the shit out of me, i work 45 hours a week, if i work over time i get taxed twice as much if i got a second job i'd get taxed twice as much - all to pay for the lazy shits that sit at home chain smoking all day watching trisha.

 

[stefanwzyga]

Yep its well annoying. The thing that pisses me off is if an unemployed man and woman live together and have a few kids they get that much income from the tax payer that unless the guy is getting around £400 after tax it aint worth him getting a job in the first place. I mean the guy can sit on his arse and him and his girl can get something like £250 income, so if he actually gets a job paying £300 its pointless. Getting out your bed for £50. Fuckin scandalous.

 

[k69atie]

Yeah that is also a good point.

Did you read recently about the man who live with his wife and mistress and between them they had 15 kids? He lived in a council house and none of the family had ever worked and yet he moaned he had paid his taxes and he had the right to a bigger house!!! Paid his taxes? WTF! when? if he has never worked!