Lazy Jobseekers to lose benefits for three years.

You wouldn't get all those benefits. The rules for child benefit have / are changing. But only if you earn £60k per year or something.

If you give up the phone contract, you may have to buy yourself out of it.

The good British people who have worked their *** off at uni to get where they want to be, do not want to be lumbered with a minimum wage, dirty job such as a dustman or working behind a fast food counter.

They worked so that they would be better than that, so lowering themselves to that would be wrong.

The people who work on the bins earn a pretty decent wage actually, it's no where near minimum wage.

The people who work on the bins earn a pretty decent wage actually, it's no where near minimum wage.

That sounds heavenly - wish I could get paid to read or walk about...
Even though three days is more than required, do you not feel bad not contributing to society or finding a way to, while receiving money for those four days of leisure as well? I know that if I didn't have a job and wasn't studying, I'd see benefits as a priviledge and would search for a job every day - only when I'm earning money myself would I take time out to have breaks for fun.

Why should people on benefits spend all their time frantically looking for a job? You aren't special because you have one, you don't have a unique right to enjoy your life which benefit claimants don't. Three days a week is fine, it's not as if a ****load of new jobs which the OP could do will appear every day and if a few do, then he'll see it when he searches for a job next unless the job is bizarrely advertised for a day or two only.

Suggest you give up the iPhone/iPad contract, sell the device and spend some money on catching up with the rest of your bills, perhaps you will be able to pay your printing costs then.

Why should people on benefits spend all their time frantically looking for a job? You aren't special because you have one, you don't have a unique right to enjoy your life which benefit claimants don't. Three days a week is fine, it's not as if a ****load of new jobs which the OP could do will appear every day and if a few do, then he'll see it when he searches for a job next unless the job is bizarrely advertised for a day or two only.

Quite the attention seeker, I'm almost honored that you quoted all of my posts from this tread is it a slow day for you?

Firstly the whole thing behind the CV thing was not my personal cost but the cost to others in similar situations, I am lucky enough to get free printing at college. I don't know where you go for all your printing needs but there's know place here that lets you print out CV's for 1/2p each. The closest thing to that would be the local Spar for photocopying and they want 35p per copy.

Next the issue of travel, getting to an interview has never been a problem and the travel expenses I was referring to was the Monday to Saturday costs of going places to hand out those CV's times that by 18 months which over that time period would be steep (£2.50 a day x 6 days a week x 4 weeks in the month = £60, then x that by the 18 month = £1,080) in bus money alone if I was to spend 6 days a week handing out CV as suggested.

The library must be cheaper, surely? Actually, it might be cheaper to buy a printer and paper.



Weekly / monthly tickets would be cheaper, no?

I may have missed a post or 2 when reading, but I don't think anyone has suggested you hand out CV's daily...that would be ridiculous. I think what would be considered fair would be 1 day a week handing out CV's (or maybe twice a month depending on where you live) and the rest of your week focus on looking online, in papers, cold calling companies etc.

Quite the attention seeker, I'm almost honored that you quoted all of my posts from this tread is it a slow day for you?

Firstly the whole thing behind the CV thing was not my personal cost but the cost to others in similar situations, I am lucky enough to get free printing at college. I don't know where you go for all your printing needs but there's know place here that lets you print out CV's for 1/2p each. The closest thing to that would be the local Spar for photocopying and they want 35p per copy.

Next the issue of travel, getting to an interview has never been a problem and the travel expenses I was referring to was the Monday to Saturday costs of going places to hand out those CV's times that by 18 months which over that time period would be steep (£2.50 a day x 6 days a week x 4 weeks in the month = £60, then x that by the 18 month = £1,080) in bus money alone if I was to spend 6 days a week handing out CV as suggested.

For searching online I have signed up to Monster, Reed and total jobs and I slightly edit my CV with the every week so that it is always top of the pile as they all give the most recent CV's to people rather than all of their database.

My phone is used so that surprisingly people/college/Job center/potential employers can contact me, yes I have an iPhone which was given to me when my brother upgraded his. You say I should "give up the iPhone/iPad contract." You obviously fail to grasp the concept of a contract and if you must know I have a sim only contract which is being paid for by my brother until I start uni.

You like everyone to know your opinion in a matter that you need to experience before you know how easy/hard it is to be unemployed, especially in this current climate.

And finally just in case you're wondering why its taken me so long to reply, today I've been sorting out all my stuff to sell so that I can get enough money together for a deposit for a house in Glasgow.

So as you can see you know absolutely nothing about me or my situation which I am well in control of now, I really do hope you never have to rely on handouts because it really is one of the most depressing soul destroying things you can do.

If you dont apply for the 3 jobs a week (or whatever the going amount is these days) that the job centre ask you to do in order to get JSA money then you shouldnt get it.
I was on JSA for a few months between finishing my postgrad and finding a job and I was applying for all jobs in the area, till jobs in Asda, warehouse jobs for clothes shops etc and getting turned down for being overqualified.
Even started leaving my higher education off my CV to stand a better chance of getting an interview.

Quite a slow day actually, come to think of it.



Well there you go then, you have access to somewhere where you can print for free. For those who don't have that luxury, or a printer, they can go to places where they will pay at most 5p per sheet at the local library. And I'm sure the jobcentre would do your printing for you.

If you have free printing, why are you complaining about the cost of printing, and as an example, highlighting one of the most ridiculously expensive places to do it?



As if you go out six days a week on special trips to employers speculatively handing out CVs. Once again, you are making stupid excuses for yourself.

I wouldn't even pay £2.50 bus fare on one day to go to an employer to speculatively hand out my CV and I doubt your Job Centre expects you to do that either.

Suppose you have a problem e-mailing it too? At most, a speculative approach to an employer should cost you no more than the cost of a stamp, with a follow up phone call.

£2.50 a day to hand out CVs? You could not make it up!



And has nothing to do with the cost of printing or travel expenses that I called you on earlier.



Well then, that's a reasonable explanation for having an iPhone, although perhaps if you are struggling as much as you say you are, you should sell it and get a cheaper phone.



I didn't say it wasn't hard to be unemployed. I said it was ridiculous to be complaining about printing costs and travel expenses to interviews. And now unnecessary bus journeys to hand out CVs when there are more effective ways of achieving the same thing.



Good, although this has nothing to do with what I called you on before.



Your individual situation is really irrelevant to the reason for this discussion, and at the risk of being repetitive, you saying that you couldn't afford printing costs or transport to interviews (or unnecessary transport costs to hand out CVs) is a little silly.