Pevenseagull
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- Jul 20, 2003
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it didn't, or eventually won't. It got or will get escheated.
I haven't had use for that word in decades, and a few weeks ago it came up in a crossword.
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[Misc] Universal Credit
- Thread starter darkwolf666
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it didn't, or eventually won't. It got or will get escheated.
I haven't had use for that word in decades, and a few weeks ago it came up in a crossword.
Indeed. UC is a horrible, inhuman and broken system. People coming to the food bank I help at have doubled since the local rollout. The government have continued to roll it out DESPITE the pilots showing it didn't work, DESPITE experts saying it didn't work and DESPITE a parlimentary committee saying it didn't work. It's pushing many people to tje brink. It's shameful that it has forced so many to food banks - remembering you only get 'four' days food ( whatabout the other three ?? ) and that food is soup, beans and tinned fruit along with a small bag of questionable quality fresh stuff the supermarkets have got rid of. It hits home when you see people crying because they are ashamed they need the help and it makes me fvcking livid that UC has driven a lot of this.
Nitram
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- Jul 16, 2013
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Best of luck we have used services in Brighton which have been brilliant in helping. The system is totally against anyone who does not have inside knowledge. A knowledgable advocate is needed in interview situations otherwise the person involved will feel stressed and lost. It's a horrible system without human kindness and a tick box exercise.
Strongly recommend you get in touch with advocates/disability service in your area.
Google revealed these - looks a good starting point.
http://www.thanetsupport.co.uk/organisation.php?id=95
Strongly recommend you get in touch with advocates/disability service in your area.
Google revealed these - looks a good starting point.
http://www.thanetsupport.co.uk/organisation.php?id=95
Woman on radio now telling how she had to turn to prostitution while waiting 8 weeks for UC payment.
So called survival sex is on the rise (although 99% of prostitution is survival sex).
Shame on our government.
So called survival sex is on the rise (although 99% of prostitution is survival sex).
Shame on our government.
I've no experience of UC but I set up the tax free childcare system thing about 18 months ago via the .gov page. An absolute ballache.
I do most things on line but this was virtually impossible and it required me to have access to a passport, a mobile phone and I'm sure something else too so that I could 'verify' myself. It also requires me to keep reconfirming the details every few months or else I'm sure I'd be locked out.
When I set it up I thought that anyone that struggles with online services would have no chance of managing it.
I do most things on line but this was virtually impossible and it required me to have access to a passport, a mobile phone and I'm sure something else too so that I could 'verify' myself. It also requires me to keep reconfirming the details every few months or else I'm sure I'd be locked out.
When I set it up I thought that anyone that struggles with online services would have no chance of managing it.
darkwolf666
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Thanks for that, most appreciated and flying in the face of a couple of the idiots who have posted.
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Well done for supporting your granddaughter, if you go to a local CAB they will have someone who can talk her through it all.
Hope she is sorted soon.
Hope she is sorted soon.
darkwolf666
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Thanks for the advice - my wife and I are legal guardians to the 2 grandkids that live with us, so feel I need to support them as much as I can, without involving the likes of CAB if I can...
We’ve managed to book the identity verification interview, so one step done.
I have now discovered that my granddaughter is expected to spend 35 hours per week job searching!!! 35 hours, how on earth do you do that week in week out, 7 hours a day looking for work - that’s a full time job!
I understand they want to make sure people are actively searching for work, but how do people spend 35 hours every week job-searching? Any advice or ideas from anyone who has gone through this would be much appreciated.
Do what I do when I've been out of work and downright lie .... just say she applied for x job on y day. They have no way of checking and there really isn't enough jobs to find and apply for to use up 7 hours a day.
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darkwolf666
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I know, 7 hours a day, every day is nothing short of ludicrous. As I said in a previous post my granddaughter has a good work ethic, and currently works all her spare time as a volunteer in a charity shop, which will obviously now have to stop, as she won't have any spare time. She has quite happily walked around all the local nurseries, handing in her c.v. and covering letter and will do whatever is asked of her - as is her way!
But 7 hours a day every day!!!
Bloody unrealistic and ridiculous!
aberllefenni
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- Jan 15, 2009
- 458
Check with the Jobcentre, but I'm pretty sure voluntary work can count towards the 35 hours "worksearch activities," although there may be a limit on this.
bha100
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- Aug 25, 2011
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Meanwhile McVey is happily spending tax payers money on a personal photographer whilst your granddaughter is having to jump through hoops just to get a bit of help and support
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/12/esther-mcvey-expensed-thousands-of-pounds-for-personal-photographer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/12/esther-mcvey-expensed-thousands-of-pounds-for-personal-photographer
They got very funny with me when I suggested I wanted to do voluntary work ..... in the end I just didn't tell them I was doing it. To be honest, I've never meet such a bunch of time wasting jobs worths than those I've met at the jobcentre. They really don't live in the real world.
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My understanding of the 35 hours, can include:
Travelling time
Preparing for interviews
Time spent in physically prospecting and handing out CV's
Basically, anything to do with job searching.
She should have a work coach soon who she can discuss these things with, it what she feels she is capable of doing.
darkwolf666
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Yes, pretty much how I understand it too. I also discovered that she may be expected to travel up to 90 minutes from home for work.
Now I have commuted those sort of hours and more in my early working career, but to a good job, earning good money, so it was financially viable. My granddaughter may now, worse case scenario be expected to job search as far away as London, for any job, possibly even minimum wage, as she has no previous earnings to act as a yardstick for her searches!