Mr Undercover wrote:You can see why this family is completely stuck, he needs to earn 50k to better his circumstances and there's no incentive to climb that mountain. You can bet he's out doing cash in hand jobs to suppliment his existence but it's not a very inspiring way of life is it. Philosophically I have a problem with so much being given with nothing in exchange surely it would be better if he had the opportunity to give something back to society and in so doing develop himself and strive towards something better.
when he was working and paying in to the system,i doubt he expected to have to justify getting anything out if needed, he paid into national insurance to insure himself didnt he.
as for the job centre helping people to better themselves through training,if he cant read and write, compile a cv, etc, i.e if hes totally thick he might get some token help, otherwise at over 40 he wont, apart frombeing patroniosed at a job club, spending hours making models of buildings and being shown how to use a phone, and other really job helpful things....
