David,
“If my understanding of your earlier comments were correct: you think most of the unemployed who are still out of work after 6 months either don’t want a job (work shy) or refuse to take a low paid job (not better off money wise than on benefits), by removing benefits at 6 months the lazy ones would be forced to find work and the ones ’stuck on benefits’ would be forced to take any job they could find?”
Goodness me, that’s a really harsh glare on it!! I think I said that there is a core of people who don’t want to work and have never have. I stick by my comment that some people consider themselves better off on benefits and really don’t want to work and that welfare should be a back-up only not a lifestyle choice.
If the tax credit system makes you better off by enabling you to take the (low paid) jobs on offer why are people not taking them? If you’re saying that you went into your local job centre and there were no jobs advertised at all then I would revisit my thinking.
I believe I said that you would get benefits for up to 6 months and then your (compulsory) insurance would then compensate you. Income policies generally run from 6 months to 2 years I believe. So in effect, yes, the Government would be removing support after a period of time particularly if the tax credit system compensates you to take a lower paid job even for the short term.
I am personally amazed by some of the barriers that people will put up themselves to not take a job and genuinely consider themselves disadvantaged because they can’t be bothered to even attempt re-arrange themselves accordingly.
Won’t consider working outside their immediate area or moving to another area for employment; won’t accommodate shift work; won’t consider a job that’s lower paid than the one they had before even temporarily; not a chance if it’s more than one bus journey. I heard some of these from my own brother-in-law.
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