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Jobseekers in Manchester to be given free travel
clarribo
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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-jobseekers-given-free-bus-6738463
I am in favour of this I see it as investment when I was unemployed and then got work I had to borrow from my Mum but if I'd not been able to do that I would have had to turn the job down (yes it was too far to walk)
However going by the comments on facebook and the result of the poll a lot of people don't agree.
I am in favour of this I see it as investment when I was unemployed and then got work I had to borrow from my Mum but if I'd not been able to do that I would have had to turn the job down (yes it was too far to walk)
However going by the comments on facebook and the result of the poll a lot of people don't agree.
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Well OAP's get it, and I don't mind, so why not for someone looking for a job?
On the Island people people get 1/2 travel if they are on JSA with a monthly ticket costing 85 quid there is no way unemployed people can afford it in fact people on min wage have a problem with these prices they now also get reduced fares on the Hovercraft
Good idea. If prince william can hitch a free helicopter ride, all common benefits claimaint should.
I've not had a penny of my JSA since mid-January - I was sanctioned for a number of reasons including my jobsearch sheet not including reference numbers for vacancies and because I filled out a Job Centre form on my phone, the auto-correct accidentally put my postcode into lower case.
I was threatened with a further sanction if I didn't attend a following-day interview in London, but had no means to travel into the city and I live 13 miles out of it. I commented that they couldn't seriously suggest I walk it or something stupid, and the adviser's response was 'it would clock in a good few hours of your weekly job search'.
Ahem, whose to say that the job seeker hasn't been a hard-working tax payer for many, many years in the past?
Even then it's quite besides the point - having a job doesn't grant you some kind of superiority over somebody who doesn't. The unemployed account for less than 5% of the national welfare budget too, so quite frankly I've not heard anything quite as ludicrously pompous as what you are suggesting.
If you want a guaranteed seat, then consider yourself lucky enough to have a wage and find a way of budgeting for a seat in First Class or something.
I was taking the piss a bit that's all.
Edit...as long as it is only given to proven journeys of seeking a job.
That's a near perfect way of doing it IMO. The first month is always the hardest with increased costs for everything so to take travelling out of that is a great idea.
We do things right in this neck of the woods.
In many areas, such as here, it's actually cheaper to give us doleys a weekly pass than two or three days individual tickets.
how do they prove that though
By their prospective employers confirming that they attended for interview.
I can understand that, but, we already have people thinking that job seekers are 'not seeking' and maybe the thought of them not seeking but getting from a to b for free might just start a RIOT.
Well, they'd be idiots.
Giving JSA claimants the ability to get around much easier is probably far more likely to help many get of the dole than the £7bn odd failing Work Programme, and would probably be cheaper in the long run too.
I don't agree. As the late Norman Tebbit quite rightly said ' Get on your effing bike' (or similar).
Nobody is prepared to walk further than the end of their bloody path these days.
First bus jobseekers fare
Does anyone remember you could be a bunch of tickets from the post office, to use on the bus...ub40-bus travel