You do realise that a tiny proportion of the DWP welfare bill for the UK goes towards paying unemployment benefits? Even if you include associated benefits like housing, the proportion of the total spend is still only 20% of the total budget. The largest proportion by far (over 50%) goes towards paying state pensions and pension-related benefits.
I know it will sound rude, but why the hell are you living there if there are no jobs there and there is no prospect of any new jobs there ? Pick up your ass and move somewhere else, where you can get a job. I hate when people say "but there is no job around here". Well, i work 150km from my hometown, my dad works all around the country depending where can they get construction job, my brother is living here in the same city as me, few of my cousins are in in a neighbor country...
Where would you suggest? At 53 with health problems and no family to rely on and having been born here and lived here all my life I consider that I'm better off and can live cheaper in an area that I know than just moving somewhere else and trying to make a new life, I lived off my savings for a few years and didn't claim a penny until it ran out. Your lucky you have family who I assume you can rely on if it all turns to s**t, I don't, you think I should move somewhere on the hope that I can get a job and accommodation, I'm supposed to stay where whilst looking for a job? Maybe apply for jobs miles away and travel miles for interviews knowing full well that I'm not going to get the job when I tell the employer that I will have to move to the area first and of course if things don't work out then I'm on the street, yep, it's easy to say mate and don't insult me by telling me to pick up my ass, I've probably worked more years than you've been alive I'll say it again, I hope you don't get ill and lose your job because you can expect comments from people who think just because they have traveled and got a job that everyone can do it, enjoy it while you can.
Wish i could rely on my parents, but that is a only a wishful thinking, mom is working on minimum salary for example (which is only 300-400€ per month). All i could rely on is that i would have a roof above my head if everything turns bad, but that is pretty much all i could rely on. Sorry, but it is your choice. You can stay in a region where there are no jobs, but then don't complain that there are no jobs ! There are jobs, but people are either unwilling to do them, or relocate for them. Clearly local people have either no interest, or have too high requirements, otherwise there wouldn't be work offers even here in Slovakia for jobs in UK. Sure, most offer minimal salary, but that is still ~1100GBP/month. Tell me, how is it possible that all those Polish, Czech etc workers can go from Central Europe to UK, work there, live there and even bring back some money, when all they get is that minimum salary ? Often even with limited language knowledge... Sorry, but jobs are there, and while i understand that you have health issues, there is always a way to get job if you really want one. I gone for a interview via train to a city 150km away, i never been there before, did the interview, got the job. I started working with all my 4000 SKK savings (that is about 100€, it was about half of the minimum salary) and that was all i had for first month of work there, plus the "loan" from the employer who got a room for me and a coworker for first month, and covered our costs for first month there, which i paid back from my first salary.
Unemployment sucks but employment can strike at any moment. For instance i had been unemployed for so bloody damn long i started my own company which is now taking 3 months to dissolve damn it. I also registered as self employed had all the letters come though but apparently you need to do a self assessment to make it valid in which i’m hoping i didn’t so after the 28 days hopefully i can forget about it? any info on this would be appreciated. I was going through the route “if no one will give me a job i’ll create my own” Then last week i applied for one job 2 days later had a interview, now i begin work/training on Monday for a managers position yet i had no former qualifications and apparently come out on top of about 30 other people. Keep applying, for anything, hopefully something will come up sooner or later. just went back to page 2.... (Finding a job in Plymouth killed me miller) Gooood luck with Cornwall!
Faug housing in the uk does not allow you to up sticks and move if you choose. British public transport in rural Britian is borderline useless. I live within 8 miles of 3 major cities. Want to guess how many busses per hr there is to them from my within a mile of my door ( so walking distance on a morning) 3 total 1 to each. ( I don't rely on public transport) Most British people would ban every foreign person from entering for work and alot would say we are too easy on those foreign people who basically vist our country claim a visa get a house and benifits. There's a sweeping way of putting things similar to yours faug. Wonder how many none Brits claim dole in the uk who are here on visas or long term work permits from other country's, mr pm can we kick them out. Sounds fun no? Uk benifits system is at least there when people fall on hard times be it British or foreign nationals. More than can be said of USA. Whose benifits last 1 year before your on food vouchers or worse. Each to there own I know people who need the systems help who don't get it, I've known people who have exploited the system. Not alot I can do about it though.
Simple, a lot of them are here illegally and don't pay any tax and if you want the truth a lot of them are a real pain in the ass and because they know they are only here temporarily they drive cars around with no tax, insurance, MOT, drinking and driving and crashing, there often in the local paper after being caught and found to be here illegally and deported, I've been harassed by Polish in the street trying to flog some crap fake gold rings and when you make it clear your not interested they start shouting their mouth off, sooner they all f**k off back to Poland the better, not many people around here will miss them I can assure you of that. If they had to pay their way like the rest of us here and pay, council tax, water rates, car insurance, car tax, etc, they wouldn't be going back with any money.
Want to guess how many buses go around my home city (13k people) to the small rural areas around per day ? 1 at morning around 5PM, 1 around 2:30PM, 1 around 7PM. That's it. To the main city in the district (45k people) ? 2 per day; true, there is a express train to that city every 2 hours and a normal train a every hour. But that doesn't mean people are staying in the small vilages around the city with 50-100% unemployment rate, but they travel to the bigger cities with lower unemployment rate. Housing and unemployment benefits - indeed, i would not give them to our people living in your country either, at least not unless they meet the similar requirements like they have in here - you need to worked at least 24 months in last 36 months to get 60% of your original salary as a benefit for 6 months, then you get 50% of your original salary for next 6 months, then you get 60€ per month. It is mostly our gypsies who go to UK or other countries with "generous" social systems and abuse them, like they did it here until the benefits were cut by a lot. Hell, they even forced countries to require visa for all citizens of my country (same happened in Czech Rep., Hungary or Romania - their gypsies did the same), because of their "emigration". On other side i am not sure many of UK citizens would do the jobs the Polish/Czechs/Slovaks/Romanians do. It is similar to the Hispanian situation in USA - people complain that they take their jobs, but they wouldn't do those jobs for the salary that job is priced at. Technically no, you can't kick them (you are part of EU and you agreed to the free workforce migration), but you could make the rules demanding - i really don't see a gypsy from central Europe working 2 years in row to get higher benefits - sorry, that sounds a bit racist, but also it is the reality - our 14% unemployment rate would be about 8-9% without the gypsy unemployed, which tells you a lot, considering that is nearly the size of the whole gypsy community. @miller: that sounds to me like a gypsy, they do exactly the same over here around the train stations . And about the car problem - yes, we know, they return with those cars back here , and it is even worse considering continental Europe uses right hand traffic.
