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| Thread ID: 150848 | 2022-08-24 23:01:00 | Unemployed and jobs | kenj (9738) | PC World Chat |
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| 1487976 | 2022-08-24 23:01:00 | I heard on the steam radio yesterday that there are two jobs for every unemployed person in NZ. I assume that's not including those on sickness benefit. Ken ;) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1487977 | 2022-08-25 00:16:00 | The way it works these days is alot of the time it's more beneficial to be on a benefit moneywise compared to working. I only work 37.5 hour weeks, but after tax I know quite a few single mums who earn more than I do by staying on the benefit. | the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 1487978 | 2022-08-25 00:23:00 | If you're making as much money on a benefit as you could working why go to work? In fact the cost of getting to work and child care etc would make a lot of beneficeries worse off. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1487979 | 2022-08-25 00:24:00 | The way it works these days is alot of the time it's more beneficial to be on a benefit moneywise compared to working. I only work 37.5 hour weeks, but after tax I know quite a few single mums who earn more than I do by staying on the benefit. Snap! |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1487980 | 2022-08-25 00:37:00 | If you're making as much money on a benefit as you could working why go to work? In fact the cost of getting to work and child care etc would make a lot of beneficeries worse off. In addition, you could also lose your community services card, and have to pay full price at the doctors and other places us workers can barely afford |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 1487981 | 2022-08-25 22:00:00 | What crap. I'd love a job. Part time. But part time here is aged care or fruit picking. I cannot, any longer, be on my feet for hours at a time. The rare occasion there is something else, I can't even get an interview anymore. Last times I did it was oh you're so "senior" and oh a lot of IT....on my not IT CV which I chopped and skewed towards office stuff more. As for beneficiary payments. You do NOT get your expenses paid for. I had a friend on benefit for a time, her mortgage was $400 a week. PLus rates etc...she got $45 accommodation supplement on top of benefit. Dole seems to be $315 now, Supported Living is $359. I've done the numbers, even without rent or mortgage my brother could not live on that on his own. Cheapest power we can get, minimal ph pans, cheapest internet, rates, regional rates, insurance and food. I grow some of it, we eat out of it often. But even so... There are people with more than one job, there was an article in Stuff the other week with examples. Well guess they have to, low pay and expenses, rent and so on... So can't accuse them of being greedy with jobs. Bash the beneficiaries. everyone "knows" it's so great and people are rolling in riches while lazing about in bed all day, right? Very few are like that. That friend of mine, she went without food for a while but got a job after a while....she's moved now too. Reduced her mortgage. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1487982 | 2022-08-25 22:58:00 | If national get in they will turn up the heat on beneficiaries, as usual. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1487983 | 2022-08-27 02:21:00 | What crap. I'd love a job. Part time. But part time here is aged care or fruit picking. I cannot, any longer, be on my feet for hours at a time. The rare occasion there is something else, I can't even get an interview anymore. Last times I did it was oh you're so "senior" and oh a lot of IT....on my not IT CV which I chopped and skewed towards office stuff more. As for beneficiary payments. You do NOT get your expenses paid for. I had a friend on benefit for a time, her mortgage was $400 a week. PLus rates etc...she got $45 accommodation supplement on top of benefit. Dole seems to be $315 now, Supported Living is $359. I've done the numbers, even without rent or mortgage my brother could not live on that on his own. Cheapest power we can get, minimal ph pans, cheapest internet, rates, regional rates, insurance and food. I grow some of it, we eat out of it often. But even so... There are people with more than one job, there was an article in Stuff the other week with examples. Well guess they have to, low pay and expenses, rent and so on... So can't accuse them of being greedy with jobs. Bash the beneficiaries. everyone "knows" it's so great and people are rolling in riches while lazing about in bed all day, right? Very few are like that. That friend of mine, she went without food for a while but got a job after a while....she's moved now too. Reduced her mortgage. I'm not bashing the beneficiaries. I'm simply stating that I know alot of beneficiaries that can't find a job that pays more than the benefits that they lose, especially if it means they have kids that they need to pay to got preschool etc. Beneficiaries are all sorts of people. You can't lump them into one age group or lifestyle |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 1487984 | 2022-09-01 00:05:00 | I agree with Piroska's comment. I too now cannot do constant physical work but can readily handle office work. Despite all the articles about valuable older workers ageism is very much alive. Having been a forum member for some years I can bet that many members would not get a job in an office because of their age despite their IT high levels of knowledge. | Neil F (14248) | ||
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