‘Ho provato per più di 100 lavori’: la 18enne teme di ricevere credito universale per tutta la vita
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2025-10-27/18-year-old-from-the-rhondda-valley-fears-shell-be-on-universal-credit-for-life
di OGSyedIsEverywhere
‘Ho provato per più di 100 lavori’: la 18enne teme di ricevere credito universale per tutta la vita
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2025-10-27/18-year-old-from-the-rhondda-valley-fears-shell-be-on-universal-credit-for-life
di OGSyedIsEverywhere
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Really this seems to be a combination of state failure and poor decisions: in an area with high unemployment and in a loosening labour market in the country more broadly yeah, you’re not going to get a job with just GCSEs – the best use of her time would be going back into education and getting A levels.
I’m sure you immediately thought,”you are obviously doing it wrong.” And she probably is. But why hasn’t her 14 years of state education prepared her (mentally and literally) for this most fundamental of requirements to survive in the modern world?
She has to prove she spends 35hrs a week looking for work in order to receive UC. I’m not even sure how I would go about proving that if that was me.
My programme for this:
* Attend interview elsewhere in the country and job center will give you a rail pass.
* Get the job, get a council studio flat or better, as well as having middle class parent type support from the local job center.
* Return the school leaving age to 16 but improve adult education. No benefits for people who leave at 16.
* Mandatory page 1 the same for all job applications. They are all the same anyway.
* Bonuses for job centre workers for clients who keep a continuous employment record for 1, 2 and 5 years if they’ve been out of work for more than a year.
She’s 18 and only has GCSEs? What has she been doing for the last 2 years? This is a non story. GCSEs have not been enough to land you a job for a very long time.
She needs to spend more time getting a marketable skill and less time crying to the papers.
There are loads of free college courses for young people. What has she been doing other than job hunting since finishing her GCSEs? There are amazing apprenticeships out there which would give her experience and possibly end in a paid job. If she’s struggling for experience then unpaid work experience even just for a day a week would help massively. Is there a charity she could help at? I don’t know what she wants to do but she needs to show on her cv that she’s doing SOMETHING to gain skills.
For 9 months – 100 applications. Going for low skilled jobs she should be cracking 100 a day. She’s hitting something like an app every few days.
So what is she doing besides filling in the same information on repeated job applications?
There’s loads of free courses she can do via local sixth form colleges. Has she looked into volunteering to get experience and improve references? Has she considered she might need to move away? Looked at getting better qualifications by doing A-Levels (while they are still free for her)? Apprenticeships? Care work?