Do you think this will actually work?

Question

Or do you think that it will be exploited by the people who dont want to work, like the current system.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080720/tuk-jobless-must-earn-their-benefits-6323e80.html

Answer 1

Absolutely - this will work if implemented correctly.

Also, getting single mothers back to work when their children are in school. Why shouldn't they work like the rest of us?

I'm a mother and I work full-time!

Answer 2

No, I think it probably isn't going to work.  There aren't enough jobs for all the unemployed people anyway, you can check on the government statistics site, and with the recession it is going to get worse, and I don't see the government at the moment investing in the sort of public spending programmes that would create more work.  Or to admit that some unemployment is caused by people not having the appropriate skills and simply living in areas where there is less work, and they do not want to help people to move to the areas where there is more work.  Council tenants can only get moved to a different part of the country for example if they have family or similar connections there or if they can get a mutual exchange.  (Hence the opening for EU workers?)  Unemployment is still only at about 5.2% which isn't really high anyway, so I suspect that the media is exaggerating things a bit in suggesting that there is a massive problem with dole scrounging and lazy people.  Note that this is a pilot that they are only going to try out in a few areas at first, so it will be interesting to stay open-minded and see what happens.

Answer 3

Remove Child Benefit and Disability Living Allowance/Attendance allowance from family's who have an income/savings over 60k a year.

Paying money to people that do no need it is far more OFFENSIVE than paying £52 PW JSA and making them work for it whilst prisoners sit on their @rses in nice warm cells with telly's.

Funny they won't do that though will they? I wonder why?

Answer 4

The criminal greedy will always find ways of abusing any system while the needy continue to suffer and be demonised as "scroungers".

This current set of "reforms" are not really about stopping abuse of the benefits system. Ultimately they are about dismantling the Welfare State in line with the tenets of neoliberalism.

It is significant that the Tories wholeheartedly support this initiative. Thatcherism is obviously alive and well - and living in the mansion of New Labour.

Answer 5

I think it's a great way. It's very annoying to pay for people to sit at home and do nothing when we have to work.

Answer 6

They are by and large unmotivated and the work they do usually displaces regular workers who may end up in the same situation but other than that its worth trying

Answer 7

it might, they just might all starve to death.