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Originally Posted by Vicky.
Its never been about sorting the scroungers out, its been about punishing the poor for being poor and finding a headline grabber to keep people from talking about the real problems in this country. Its a ****ing disgrace. I remember posting on here once about a friend (not sure if I posted on here or DS) who was sanctioned for taking her kid to hospital and missing a jobcentre appointment, even though she rang them as soon as was possible to let them know what had happened.
Sanction targets are a disgrace. How can you set a target when the sanction is supposed to only apply to people who are taking the piss?
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Totally agree........ it looks like the Govt is simply inventing more and more ways to punish people who are unemployed. It really is disgraceful expecting these people to jump through hoops to claim benefit that they are fully entitled to.
It's as if the Govt doesn't want to pay anything out to anybody...
Well if you don't want to have a Welfare system........then don't have one, scrap the whole thing. Because to constantly make the system more and more onerous so people will either stop claiming completely or spend 40 hrs a week filling in the dam forms to claim a small pittance is just shameful.
Every week we hear about these new initiatives to try and ensure people are working really hard to find a job.. but to be honest people have paid taxes that fund these benefits and so in most cases especially with unemployment benefit are only getting back what they paid in so why are these people being virtually humiliated when trying to claim these benefits.
02-03-2015, 08:25 PM
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