"The Benefit System Is BROKEN!" | Unemployed Adults Will Reach Lows Of 61 Per Cent By 2060

[@ballshippin3809]

Why contribute to a system which doesn't care about you?...

[@Craig121000]

Absolutely, I'm British and disabled. You know how we feel.

[@IRSH-sy5jn]

Taking people off benefits i.e. Unemployment benefit 75 pounds a week.and then spending 800 pounds a week keeping them in prison for petty crime because they are destituted living on the streets.

[@StephenJohnson-hl4kz]

I'm unemployed again and 60 and i'm struggling to gain employment as it seems you have to get a interview first. Then the company has to decide who to employ after interviewing about 20-30 people for one job. People think it's easy eh. Unless you've been unemployed, you have no idea in how a genuine person like me feels eh.

[@huudielbo728]

it was ever thus. When you've tried for ~200 then depression sets in.

[@GeekanArtemis]

You should have to defend yourself, these people set the subject, they control the narrative, they inform you what you should do and say, that's mind control. To work for someone else, in any form is slavery. The world would not end if everyone downed tools. All which would happen is, the elite wouldn't be the elite any longer. An this is what they fear.

[@Crescentmoon-xm1qe]

So is my father.He was made redundant in 2021.He refuses to go on benefits.Hes worked all his life.The jobs out there don't want to employ a 60 plus person.

[@Anti_Woke]

@Crescentmoon-xm1qe If he's not working, and not on benefits, how does he eat, pay utility bills, and mortgage/rent/rates? There are only three options: 1) independently wealthy through investments (not available to most people), 2) living on savings (postponing the inevitable), 3) crime.

[@Michael-td3gz]

And all that after they go through 200 application forms.. Drive a taxi or something...selfemployed

[@markscript5746]

Perhaps we could stop importing benefits claimants

[@hTyKn1]

Starmer fought for their right to claim benefits when he was a lawyer

[@Ukipmiddleleft]

Easy for someone in her position to rant about people on benefits. employers made this situation with their greed and their contemptious treatment and behaviour of employees left with mental health issues,

[@user-es2fg6hl3z]

There needs to be more practical protection for employees if they want people to go back to work

[@omgitsabloodyandroid5161]

It’s a RELIGIOUS CHOICE Muslims LOVE BENEFITS

[@wadoryujujutsukempo6289]

Labour is working hard to make sure any british person is put back to work, so their benefits can pay for a new arrival

[@huudielbo728]

As they have said "work is not something we do". Note that no muslim country will have them. They spread like the plague and do as much damage.

[@equalitypeace1695]

Are you are islamaphone and a racist ?

[@equalitypeace1695]

What about all the migrants and Muslims that are working g and paying there taxes to fund the native people on benefits with 5 kids and father is no where ti be seen.

[@matwest5481]

It doesn’t pay to work, many people are expert claimers running rings around the system, the system is broken.

[@huudielbo728]

It has been that way for 70 years, they laugh at workers!

[@silvermoonuk]

Says a talk tv presenter who sits on her back side and just moans for a living and talks crap. Lol 😆 🤣 😂 the only lazy people here are most of talk tv and gb news presenters who cannot be bothered to understand how real people struggle, like the genuine disabled and mentally ill.

[@JayWolf-p1v]

I've been disabled by whole life. Aspergers, OCD and even went through serious depression. I wanted to work! Nobody helped me. At all. I'm 34 and my life has been one of isolation since I was 18. Lost all trust. Even tried getting adult social care involved recently. They just ignore me. I have learned to try and make myself happy and to keep away from people as much as possible. It's not always that people don't want to work. Some are just kicked out of regular society like me.

[@jossratcliffe8908]

Wages 2 low . 90 percent of people better off not working . Companies can just get rid of people. At drop of a hat . Not worth risk

[@GeekanArtemis]

Everything is written from the standpoint of which work is the reason for human existence.

[@mariewalmsley6143]

People are depressed beyond belief and they can't get help.

[@brianpotter3870]

The new bad back.

[@aquillaism]

@@brianpotter3870 maybe you should ask people before making assumptions , i suffer from mental health problem cause by childhood physical/mental/emotion and sexual abuse , i managed to cope and was in full time work until i had a mental breakdown which totally ruined my life and my marriage , i have a diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder and also suffer from psychosis , there isnt any help i can get apart from medication which doesnt really help that much , i have tried therapy which also doesnt work , in therapy you get to speak to a health professional for 1 hour a week for 12 weeks and if that doesnt work then they send you to a different professional to start the whole process over again , i tried therapy 3 times and now they wont treat me because it didnt and wont work , they themselves told me that , so what am i supposed to do , my psychosis doesnt even allow me to have friends and the only way i can cope is to isolate myself from the outside world , but i still feel very guilty that i have to claim benefits just to be able to live

[@calamcouzens2090]

Only lazy people stay depressed. It’s not can’t get help they don’t want to help there self.

[@mariewalmsley6143]

@calumcouzens2090. That's nothing to do with the point I was making.

[@Crescentmoon-xm1qe]

Have you had severe depression?

[@j3z72]

You should NOT be able to claim benefits until you have paid into the system for minimum 5 years.

[@Ankolysing_Spondylitis]

that is how it is for Brits in France, have to pay in 5 years before you can claim. why do we give them money just for coming? ridiculous!

[@leonardholland9604]

Sounds ok but what about the likes of my son who had an accident at 17 and was left blind crippled and brain damaged, he wasn’t in the work force!

[@CARLTULLY-tf5qu]

​@@leonardholland9604this is the type of person that benefits our their to support, but the benefits system is way to low for your sons conditions.more is needed to help people like your son,so he can have a reasonable life.take care god bless.

[@bobmartin770]

Nobody should receive benefits until they have paid into the system for a minimum of 5 years.

[@robertdavies8305]

Agree. The cost at the moment is 51 Billion. This is what has been worked out. I worked all my left until retirement. My wife and I do not receive any help with house-funded energy projects. The reason for no help is that we are over the threshold. We are not rich but plan for the future. We did not receive pension credit to get the winter fuel allowance. We own our house no dept. But others who own their homes and are on benefits can get government grants on the energy projects for their homes. My wife and I look back and ask if was it worth planning for the future when people who have never worked get all paid for.

[@GeekanArtemis]

I'm a Grunts shouldn't, although, do you also agree that sovereign class, shouldn't then take 99% of the taxes you pay. Oh, that's right, you never knew that.

[@davidgoldstraw9892]

It is so much not a choice for me, my situation means I am unable to work, before you all start you have no idea of my situation. I had to quit my job because of a major life change, which has left me little time for anything other than looking after my autistic children. I have no support network and haven't had any respite for 3 years even though I am a widower. Yes my kids go to school but you try taking your son shopping in a wheelchair and just having to use a basket while he is having meltdowns. I loved my job, unfortunately I don't think I would find a job that would fit around the hours I would require and also deal with me having to take days off if my children are ill, have appointments, school holidays? etc, as I no longer have my wife to share that burden between our employers, the least attractive employee ever, classed as unreliable at best. No one talks about that, but child services have said I don't meet the criteria for tier 4 support, so I am unable to get any respite. So keyboard warriors, fire away!

[@GeekanArtemis]

And the leach landlord which imprisons the cash cow cattle whom can't get out from under their thumb, it's nothing more than social engineering

[@Isherwoodsounds]

Seems like you have your hand full and are working hard looking after your children. I feel for you.

[@Richard-Cashisking]

Our replacements don't only get the houses,they get our jobs as well.

[@GeekanArtemis]

Well said, the native population woke up. An now the elite need new slaves.

[@nickyginn9137]

Also in my experience of my daughter and others like her that i know of her generation, the jobs on offer today are worthless. Zero hour contracts, low wages and many are not full time to make a decent standard of living. Shes just finished her 3 month probabtion now the company have extended it by another 3 months because thats what they do. Theres no security anymore, and many companies do not look after their staff. When you've applied for 70 plus jobs and hear back from one, and they tell you thank you for applying, but the position is now closed, you give up.

[@janebufton1960]

When I worked I earned far far less. It shouldn't be like this, but the fact is it is. I worked full time, and earned less money than I am now, on benefits because I am disabled. Wirk doesn't pay I m afraid. I will probably die if I worked. It's redicouous but that the way things are. I suffered from deoression, almost became homeless, couldn't pay any bills when I worked.

[@janebufton1960]

Government people better wages/ salary, more money for working instead of less. I can't walk far now and can't see. No employer is going to employ people like me, unless industry gets paid by government to take on disabled people.

[@TAM-tf7ul]

Most job advertisements are supposedly fake; companies put them up, purposefully and they essentially 'harvest' data to sell. Leave you in the lurch and they churn these job listings out. Also the jobs if it is real, require high qualification's and or experience to even be considered. That is also if you put in the correct 'keywords' for the Ai algorithm to select your 'CV' from the hundreds/thousands that are there, because again a human doesn't read your resume from the outset. It's done by machine.

[@stuartwilson3753]

Why work? There's plenty of free money. Working for £20....£30 a week worse off will never motivate anyone. Knowing what and how to claim benefits is a life skill and should be taught at an early age . My advice is to milk the system to maximise your income. It's human instinct to claim anything that's free for themselves.

[@GeekanArtemis]

Money is fiat, it has no value, it's not free, it's worthless.

[@oojimmyflip]

I have big open ulcers on my legs due to bad circulation problems, I've had 35 blood clots in my legs and lungs over 30 years and the pain I endure just to get to my feet is crippling every single day, if you saw the state of my legs, you would wonder how hell I manage to function at all, I'm not self entitled and I have had to fight for every penny I have received from the state. I've worked and payed into the system for years despite my health problems but the disease always wins and renders me incapacitated. I am not proud of my situation at all. Why do these people try to make British people like me feel so guilty When we have paid in for years prior to our illnesses?

[@kbdkbd99]

You are ill and deserve help. It sounds like you need even more help that you are being offered. I don't understand however why you say you are being made to feel bad - every other sentence they say is couched in the language that of caveats that demonstrate they understand their are deserving cases such as yours. I don't think they are talking about you at all. I hope you get some respite from your difficult situation.

[@brianpotter3870]

Perhaps work from home, the new trend. If you want to work you’ll make it happen.

[@stuartobrien78]

Unemployment is not a lifestyle choice. Problem is employers cherry picking employees too much.

[@GeekanArtemis]

The problem is, employers exist.

[@guccipupsy891]

If you want to look at who’s scamming the system look at the people that prey 5 times a day that don’t go to work, drive about in brand new cars all paid for by the tax payer and these people have put nothing into the system

[@s6edge706]

The indigenous don't work that's why british businesses call out for immigrants. I've watched the "shameless" documentary, featuring Frank Gallagher..

[@jacquelineh9248]

That has always mystified me. How can they afford the lifestyle?

[@markhoughton6112]

I've been applying for loads of warehousing retail sales customer service's i is active seeking work I keep on getting turned down all the time I'm the wrong side of 50+ companies don't want old gits like us just young people & where are all jobs coming from?

[@GeekanArtemis]

Funny how they've made you beg to become a slave. I love the psychology of it all.

[@ejc636]

Job vacancies are going down. Less jobs less workers. In rural areas jobs are so scarce to find.

[@NickM_FirstofHisName]

So is gouging out people 's revenues by over taxes. You withdraw the incentive to work, you get that!

[@stevensymington2461]

No one on less than £25.000 should be taxed a penny.

[@michellewhittaker4687]

I lost my full time job due to Rachel thieves budget luckily I have managed to get a part time job and I am a qualified practitioner! So imagine trying to get a job without adequate qualifications!

[@robertdavies8305]

Are you a medical practitioner? As the Northeast or Cumbria may have still openings.

[@GeekanArtemis]

What is a qualification but a piece of paper of which your equal gave you, which opens doors with the ideologically subverted and the mentally ill.

[@Rivelino824]

So you want people to work for £1100 a month at tesco and pay £1000 rent how do them maths work.

[@SamAndLorraineSpain]

Your maths are wrong minimum wage is £1800 a month after tax from April

[@Rivelino824]

@SamAndLorraineSpain You joking my brother works at tesco in Manchester full time. He gets nowhere near £1800 after tax. Ok saying to people work you need jobs that actually give them the means to live. Even worse if you're single and working in a low paid job.

[@gavinclark3485]

@@SamAndLorraineSpainno it isn’t 🤣🤣

[@Cayres9]

​@@SamAndLorraineSpainCouncil tax is £120 a month band A , Car insurance £100 a month , Fuel £200 a month etc so yeah don't work as it's a waste of time

[@SamAndLorraineSpain]

@@Rivelino824 £12.21 x 40 = £488.40 a week after tax is £1816.01 a month

[@emperium6224]

In the 80s i was a fork truck driver,i took home £105.00 per week tgats £420.00 a month for working 5 and half days a week,i could pay my mortgage bills and food ,my partner was a stay at home mum with one child...no way can you do that today on the wages you get for being a fork truck driver..thats the problem,wages have not kept up with costs

[@AlexMasri]

Work for what ? It doesn’t pay to work anymore..most salaries don’t pay enough to live on

[@EmeraldStarryEyez]

Self esteem, moral, confidence, conversation skills, relationship building, providing to society, SELF WORTH

[@alisasoltani3416]

@@EmeraldStarryEyez Yeah darling, look those things you mention don't pay the bills at the end of the month, which is what living in a capitalist system takes, everything costs money. I guess you don't perceive any salary and you are happy with your self worth?

[@Dean-Bites]

It's people from abroad doing this

[@trace567]

Meanwhile today in other news, a cleaner working for the NHS who was basically sacked for taking 400 days off sick for mental health illness won a case against her dismissal for discrimination for disability. You cant have it both ways. You can't have a system that says you can take an employer to court for dismissing you for not bring capable for doing the role for mental health reasons, whilst trying to force people into the work force. Employers will be told they can't not take them on, but also cannot dismiss if they can't do the role.......employers will simply find a different reason to not employ people with known mental health challenges. You can't have it both ways, because both are costly and damaging to the public. I have mental and physical issues. On one side it's suggesting I must find a job even though my ablity to do any job is seriously impeded, saying no you won't get benefit go to work. An employer told they can't not refuse you on such grounds, but they realistically won't want you for damn right obvious reasons, you can't DO the job they want filled. Then making it harder for the sick you deem not sick to find an actual job.

[@garymorris-h5p]

Alot of these People are so Ignorant saying all this People from Rich Backgrounds who have had a Diffrent LifeStyle and Acess to Healthcare Judging people Trust me not everyone is milking the System

[@JosephODonohue-zf5on]

Something needs to be done about employer not employing over 50s That a story that's never told

[@Stuart-f2m]

No incentive to work if you get everything for free if you dont .

[@BritWolf1]

The words incentivise and coerce seem to be the same these days

[@JimbojumboJimbo]

Im depressed cause i left army warch yoing men from Afghanistan i thought against in 4 star hotels free everything getting better stsrt than me im manic depressed

[@paulhynes170]

what a way of slagging off most of your viewers

[@barmyneddy1789]

Don't blame the players. Blame the game. The wealthy avoid tax because they can. Others avoid work because they can. Those in the middle are taxed to the hilt. Those are the facts

[@MR.TB67]

Increase people’s wages and it will give people a incentive to work

[@emperium6224]

Plus most people on universal credit do work but have to claim because wages too low...this country is finished..that's why immigrants are swelling as employers can pay them less...

[@MrDazza082]

No point in working wages are awful better off on benefits.. no point in paying somebody else's mortgage

[@neilfranklin5036]

They want people to work for not enough hours or its too many hours people need something in between to live

[@picknmix8623]

The pension age goes up and up, so the elderly are looking after many young lazy people. The sick should get all the help they need.

[@trace567]

With pension age rises, there will be increases in sickness benefits for those with age relates health struggles who once upon a time would of not been in the figures, because instead they would be pension figures. My gran could of retired at 60.

[@leonardholland9604]

I love the pompousness of the presenter, my son had an accident at 17 and was left blind brain damaged and crippled what should he do become a traffic bollard?

[@cathyg7767]

Stop paying benefits to people who are not genuinely sick or disabled and I bet they all miraculously find a job. The truth is there are a lot of lazy sods out there. Get them working and let’s get this country back on its feet. It’s a disgrace!

[@janineh1000]

And what if they lose their job? They'll be back on benefits again.

[@janineh1000]

I'm neither disabled or sick but I was still entitled to benefits after redundancies.

[@imbonkers3629]

Unemployment is 4.3% 😮 Alex so the vast vast majority work not sit in a studio for 3 hours then 😢about how exhausted you are 😳

[@Worldturnedupsidedown]

Nearly 20% of the working age population are not working.

[@Cayres9]

Hard work sat in a studio getting your hair makeup 💄 and nails 💅 done before going on Air 😂

[@emperium6224]

She sits and just talks,yet calls people lazy or the disabled should get of their butts....

[@Worldturnedupsidedown]

@imbonkers3629 11million working age people are not working. 9.3 million of these are not looking for work or are unable to work these people are called "economically inactive". ONS

[@BuzzRain]

Talking about benefits being a 'trap'. Benefits are a 'safety net'. Its not meant to be a living wage. People claiming anxiety and depression etc should provide 3 independent medical diagnoses. Mental health is to the 2000s what back pain was in the 80s & 90s. Once CT and MRI scanning has arrived nobody is off sick with bad backs now!

[@johnathanrowley2707]

Idea,stop taxing companies with green and high business taxes as its closing them down and people are ending up on universal credit ,example 3000 from port talbort ,1100 from vauxhall and thousands from retail industry ,or stop asylum seekers being allowed benifits

[@janebufton1960]

The fact is. If you are sick, you can't afford to work. Financially, or emotionally.

[@michaelscales5996]

How many on benefits are working cash in hand or even have a permanent job ? When I worked in a High St bank,we saw customers paying in benefit cheques, who were spotted driving a taxi or waiting in a local restaurant,run by a relative ! Our view was that the local job centres had been infiltrated by immigrants, who were looking after their fellow countrymen. The system stinks and in my view anyone who has not paid 5 years of taxes, should not be allowed any benefits. Then if you can claim,the amount is reduced after say 3 months.This would stop the abuses.

[@jamesbinderman5626]

There is plenty of work. There are no jobs. A job is only work if someone can profit...

[@tt-vu3oz]

If 3 million of us stopped working low paid jobs the system will collapse its unsustainable too many people gaming the system ....

[@stumac869]

Many are better off on benefits, especially if they claim incapacity benefits. What incentive is there for such people to work?

[@emperium6224]

Government own figures,9 million sick disabled unemployed and economically inactive...but only 8 hundred thousand jobs...a lot of them jobs don't even exist....do it's impossible to get all these people into work...the under 25s should be dealt with first

[@sukishahi3671]

Nothing wrong with any off them they come to my supermarket and spend benefits on vapes cigarettes alcohol fizzy drinks crisps Mobil phone top ups.This benefit should be spent on childrens food and warmth.This is a easy fix no cash, vouchers only for basic food suddenly they will feel better and to go to work.

[@patrizioorru772]

Very sensible suggestion

[@lisaf7909]

Or alternatively due to lack of explanation of medical conditions following scans, blood tests, x rays etc. No funding for treatment people have to battle on at work getting worse and worse over time. I was working full time 12hr night shifts in healthcare until a few months ago. I have numerous spinal defects and knee injuries plus hypermobility and osteoarthritis. I struggle to walk, my fingers are deforming and I'm in constant pain. I kept going for as long as I could. I'm 54 what do you expect people like me to do. Im lucky I have a pension coming after Xmas so will no longer need universal credit or sick pay but I've bloody well paid into the system, it's the first time I've claimed anything why shouldn't I when I need it.

[@freespeechadvocate7492]

We are the welfare capital of the world, c9me one, come all. Why do you think the boat people pass through many safe countries to get to benefits Britain? Also, I have a friend who has never worked, she is 58, has a luxury furnished council bungalow, a mobility car, a designer dog and is in the pub everyday getting pissed. The system is tucked.

[@emperium6224]

Rubbish...everyone seems to know someone who is cheating the system...if that is the case you have a duty to report them...the reason no one does report them is because they don't exist ..just bashing the disabled again

[@romanb1853]

Rename it from benefits to social charity or something. Start with changing the mindset.

[@health_Natural2]

First they blamed Polish people for taking their jobs. What's the excuse now?

[@MaxZ-d8o]

Immigrants from the subcontinent.

[@CarolWoodcock-u8w]

Those claiming benefits for depression and anxiety should have to attend some kind of community centre daily.....this should be designed to help them with their conditions....and get them back to work....nobody benefits from isolation and sitting at home all day doing nothing

[@proudpureblood.9847]

Claiming pip is much more difficult than people are being led to believe

[@anncarter5945]

Everything is a lifestyle choice ..including reading out loud statistics on news channels

[@brianpotter3870]

But they’re paying taxes, not taking them.

[@rickreid8572]

These people don't know the rest of it....

[@phillipwatson9906]

The DWP need to get out of the office and find all the fake claimers

[@studas2011]

Our country is fractured in multiple ways and I think it might be terminal. There is diminishing national pride, diminishing self-respect, too many people, wages are too low, rents are too high. Most costs (food/energy etc.) are too high keeping most working people relatively poor. On top of this, murder, robbery and rape seem to be commonplace in our society and these factors all coalesce to put many, many people off working in and for this society. In short, it's not worth it (in many cases).

[@OfWodensFolk]

I've just lost my main source of income that are down to matters out of my hands. I don't want to claim a penny but I'm going to have to because I've got a 10 year old daughter to look after and I've paid into the system for 30 years. It's the ones that have bled the rest of us dry since turning 18 that are the problem. I lived next door to an anti-social, alcoholic mother for four years before she was finally kicked out and there is NO chance of her ever being able to hold down a job, no chance. How do you deal with people like that?

[@LewisJones-j2e]

Hard to find jobs when every position has hundreds of applicants all applying the exact same way.

[@latchmere100]

If you find yourself out of work. Your depression will be worse when you sign on. You will find it difficult to survive.

[@nigelfarley814]

The thing about Reform and their ilk is that it’s all about forcing people to do the things they want.

[@RanglebotThumperdink]

We are funding islamists.

[@London-wo3gf]

I came to UK 20 years ago, with a profession but not job, in 2 days I got a cleaning job then got 2 more jobs , I could never get why young people in particular were jobless, there are lots of jobs out there, with time you get what you look for, but claiming benefits definitely not way, I would feel useless. Making jobs that other consider less attractive,opened my mind about my own potential.

[@JoanCarradine]

Right or wrong, some people realise in some cases working pays far less that what can be claimed in benefits. The problem is with the system, until wages are reasonable enough to live on with some disposable income left over, greater job security and opportunities for advancement! People are not robots, without any of these prospects, doing a job has no logic from a financial point of veiw.

[@Michael-td3gz]

Love to know where all these people will get a decent job.. Millions of immigrants pouring in, is the reason so many unemployed

[@Ian_Beale_Eastenders]

We need more jobcentres and case managers

[@jamesgibson1123]

A lot of businesses have closed in recent years especially hospitality. Must have a lot to do with it especially young people.

[@General-p8u]

What have the pensioners contributed to the country

[@SylvainRobert-vh9jw]

This is all about milking the cow, for some. I'm just saying.

[@josephtopete1492]

The United States the democrat party in 1996 enacted the Welfare Reform Bill sometimes called the Welfare to Work Bill. I saw many needy people fall through the cracks while only some benefited. Yes there are lazy people that collect sadly but many trully need the help. Even Bill Clinton 25 years himself admitted the Welfare to Work was to harsh. I am not saying people should allowed to collect for the sake collecting but keep in mind you are only going to harm the weakest people.

[@nnanyelugoanekwe218]

GB news must tie everything to immigration🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@antonelliarico387]

You have to ask why the governments dont do anything, thats the real question?

[@paulbraid2658]

The claimants should be put in a separate society with the immigrants

[@vikingfrog7204]

You wouldn't say that to them though would you? Such a keyboard warrior.

[@paulbraid2658]

Starmer is buying up green belt for a new housing estate for people that can't afford a place to live.

[@karlobluesman]

Lifestyle choice! Bs

[@hTyKn1]

Ah the leisure society we were all promised 😄

[@Autonomous1969]

They should get the minimum to survive on. If they want anymore then they have to get a job.

[@emperium6224]

Universal credit is £380.00 a month for single person,just over £10.00 a day...but you are ok right ??

[@bowjana8128]

Dont blame anyone for not working whats the points

[@douglastaggart9360]

Unlike you alex and most in the comments ive been on the dole and worked and never been better off out of work. Infact living off £70 a week isnt nice.

[@willyhill7509]

Britains employment rate is 75%, 10th highest in world, the OECD average is 68.5%.

[@paulbraid2658]

Yes it is.why work for the government Everone is there private bank

[@mummyd1990]

If people want to work and if other people don't want to work then just let them be,just wish people would just let people live there lives without telling us all what to do??!!I don't blame anyone for not wanting to work with the crap minimum wage "payments" it is not worth getting out of bed for 😂😂😂☺😆😅😉 keep well and safe everyone and just be yourself.

[@aficio698]

The biggest incentive for back to work is stop benefits. Under 30 not working absolutely no benefits. Probably living in parents house.

[@vikingfrog7204]

People suggest this nonsense of no benefits all the time, and you think these people will just disappear, no crime will rise. They'll steal and hurt people to feed their children etc. We don't have the police to deal with the crimes already and crimes will sky rocket. This, this is why you're not a politician

[@LeahClerk]

Planet zombie

[@thedroneflyingviking1284]

Weve just had a dude give a 6 month sick note for "stress and anxiety" and theres fuck all employers can do about it wtf is wrong with this country.

[@robertdavies8305]

How the hell did he get that I was off for being micro-managed? Bullying for 2-3 months. I was off for 10 weeks but got help from a mental health Doctor from one of our leading Hospitals. The bullying brought back memories I had blocked from the military. I also had an NHS unit that supported me. Which was a mental health led by a mental health nurse. they got me back to work. then I found another job and left the company and never looked back. Now retired and do not get any support from the government. No benefits or grants for our home. No debt either. It makes me angry when I hear stories like you said. The company should arrange for the person to see a mental health professional. Such as a Mental Health Doctor or mental health nurse. It does cost but it will get the person back to work. You cannot refuse once this is offered. GPs are not trained in mental health.

[@emperium6224]

Maybe pay them more..rather than slave labour

[@stevensymington2461]

Those on disability benefits get more than the minimum wage when you add in housing benefit.

[@Vincent-jl6vu]

When I once had to claim for a month, I was told I either take a job they offer me or lose my benefit. That was many years ago, when did it become so easy for the individual just to decide they will get benefits

[@robertdavies8305]

I left the military after being offered a job. Came home but the company was laying off. No job. I was told by the job centre if I had access to a vehicle I could look for a job up to 60 miles. I did all kinds of work until I got a prominent job. Never looked back. I just could not sit in the house doing nothing. It would drive my head around. It is so easy now. The young ones think the dole is a wage. A bricky friend was at the job centre and he heard a young man that he knew had never worked demanding his wages, which was benefits. This was years ago. This is where we are now. Far too many ideal hands and minds.

[@emperium6224]

It's not easy you have to apply for work for 35 hours a week or lose benefits..their are no jobs ,other than zero hour contacts and short term contracts....9 million out of work including disabled ,but only 8 hundred thousand jobs, government figures...please get in the real world

[@veronicaboyce6794]

Job share.

[@simonmillard8337]

No more benefits.