Ever signed on the dole?

[eek]

Build more bloody houses and prevent non-EU citizens buying them.

Not quite. Build more houses and stop banks from lending stupid amounts of money relative to wages. Then prices will return to a sane level...

It is only in the UK that a mortgage debt can be pursued once the property is returned to the lender. By removing that ability banks would think a lot harder before lending stupid amounts of money to people...

[mudskipper]

My mate got sanctioned and no money for a month cos they didn't like his email address which was completely acceptible, just an excuse and nothing more. Three days food provided by a foodbank.

I suspect the long term unemployed are being targeted just for the sake of it and the 'undeserving' are a minority. Just my experience.

Do you read the Daily Wail by any chance?

WHS. Of course there are a few people that play the system, but the majority don't. People get money stopped for all sorts of poxy reasons.

[vetran]

He's also going after people on sickness benefit particularly if they have mental illnesses (and I don't mean depression) or learning disabilities i.e. have a mental age of a child.

That seems to be incompetence on the behalf of ATOS but I agree he should get a grip on that.

There are plenty of well documented examples of people signed on for depression, stress or grief though.

White Dee, the Rochdale swamp Donkey & hubby etc.

[mudskipper]

Not quite. Build more houses and stop banks from lending stupid amounts of money relative to wages. Then prices will return to a sane level...

It is only in the UK that a mortgage debt can be pursued once the property is returned to the lender. By removing that ability banks would think a lot harder before lending stupid amounts of money to people...

Build more council houses. Remove right to buy until after, say, 20 years. It would 1) create jobs (thereby also increasing tax revenue and reducing welfare), 2) give people somewhere decent to live, and 3) stop stupid amounts of taxpayer money being paid to private landlords.

[vetran]

WHS. Of course there are a few people that play the system, but the majority don't. People get money stopped for all sorts of poxy reasons.

that is unacceptable your mate should talk to his MP.

[vetran]

It is only in the UK that a mortgage debt can be pursued once the property is returned to the lender. By removing that ability banks would think a lot harder before lending stupid amounts of money to people...

I like that.

[SueEllen]

Not quite. Build more houses and stop banks from lending stupid amounts of money relative to wages. Then prices will return to a sane level...

In London the market is fed by foreign investors who buy central London property. This in turn pushes rich British people further out buying/renting at an inflated cost and so on down the pay scale.

It is only in the UK that a mortgage debt can be pursued once the property is returned to the lender. By removing that ability banks would think a lot harder before lending stupid amounts of money to people...

The most expensive properties don't have any mortgages on them.

[eek]

Encouraged back to work? Where are the jobs? Where to find a job not on a zero hours contract or pays a living wage?

Get yer head out of yer arse and stop buying to the tulipe they sell you.

Can't fault that. The world is moving into a two tier system with those that provide value still doing well while those without skills are falling further and further behind as computers replace everything they can do...

As for sanctions. You can appeal but I don't think they advertise how to appeal and you need to be whiter than whiter forever afterwards as lost sanction appeals do the worker no favours....

[Freaki Li Cuatre]

I remember the willification one is subjected to when joining the ranks of the unemployed.

I was an unemployed graduate in the early 90s recession. Couldn't get a graduate job but couldn't get a McJob either cos I was overqualified.

Then, after 6 months they sent me to the Executive Job Club where I got free 2nd class stamps.

Then I got on the ET scheme. That's Employment Training, otherwise known as Extra Tenner as you got an extra £10 a week for doing it.

Mustn't sneer though. I got into an MSc Computing degree under this scheme, believe it or not, at Newcastle Poly.

Been no looking back since

[vetran]

Build more council houses. Remove right to buy until after, say, 20 years. It would 1) create jobs (thereby also increasing tax revenue and reducing welfare), 2) give people somewhere decent to live, and 3) stop stupid amounts of taxpayer money being paid to private landlords.

let fewer people in? Throw a few undesirables out?