Oltre 10.200 pagamenti di assistenza sociale tagliati nel 2024 rispetto ai destinatari di cooperare con gli sforzi per trovare lavoro
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/over-10200-social-welfare-payments-cut-in-2024-over-recipients-failure-to-cooperate-with-efforts-to-find-work-1743204.html
di Banania2020
8 commenti
This is an archaic system, and really needs to be supplemented (not replaced) with a [Job Guarantee](https://www.jobguarantee.org/) – which right now aught to be focused on housing and infrastructure.
People would stay on unemployment payments if they choose to – with the JG always being there as an option for anyone who wants work, when the private sector isn’t providing enough _good quality_ jobs.
The majority of these 10k do not want to work, lack of work is not the issue here.
I’ve said it on here 1000 times and I’ll say it again. The social welfare system in this country is not perfect but it’s is still excellent if you engage with it. I broke down during the pandemic, took ages to recover, and was on the dole for over 4 years. After I got my ADHD diagnosis, I was able to complete a Higher Diploma in Software Development and I’m currently doing a WPEP which I’m likely to get made permanent after. It’s an excellent system. I personally think it lacks physical and mental health supports, many people I met while on the dole were struggling with other issues that were making it difficult to get out of bed in the morning, let alone find work. Human solutions to human problems, not everyone who doesn’t engage with the system is a bad actor.
Grand a month and social housing is plenty to live on. Why jeopardise that by being an uncompliant cunt?
DSP were alright when I was on the dole I engaged with them. Turas Nua on the other hand were opportunistic vultures!
CE scheme has been my lifeline, genuinely. I was unemployed on and off for almost three years, mental health issues, physical health issues, completely unprepared for a full-time workplace. Genuinely thought I’d have to go on disability because I could never see myself being allowed a chance in a “normal” workplace. I’ve been placed on the scheme now for about a month and a half, and I truly feel like it has changed my life for the better. It’s twenty hours, it’s low stress, everyone around me is also a CE hire or started that way so there’s zero shame in it. I feel like I have finally been given the tools I needed to address my mental and physical issues that largely spawned from trauma from my first few awful jobs.
If you asked me a year ago I’d say I had too much health issues and was perfectly happy to never work again. Now, I can’t imagine not having a job. I truly enjoy getting up in the mornings whereas before I wouldn’t even see before noon, ever. I feel like I contribute, I’m not just a welfare leech. The CE scheme is a perfect example of a system that works that just isn’t available to enough people.
My ultimate advice to anyone struggling is always this: Leap at the chance if you get a CE offer. Sprint for your fucking life if Turas Nua select you. I don’t care how you do it but make up any possible fucking excuse, *do not* engage with Turas Nua, they are harassing fucking vultures.
Off topic but recently found out my wife gets less in maternity leave from her job than someone not working taking maternity leave
Seems odd
About time. Time to cut it by 90%