(UK) Jobcentres 'tricking' people out of benefits to cut costs, says whistleblower

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Indeed, I've been doing some research into that.I'm planning on teaching in Poland once I get everything sorted out and anyway, thank you for the help.

Dave.

Originally posted by David291
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Indeed, I've been doing some research into that.I'm planning on teaching in Poland once I get everything sorted out and anyway, thank you for the help.

Dave.

As I have said, I wish you good luck! Poland sounds awesome...
Vicky

the jobcentre are definately not helping, i myself have experienced these mandatory job applications that are unrealistic, but if you don't go along no more money. i live in Derbyshire and was made to go for a job interview in Bolton! i don't drive so after two trains and a bus (costing just over £11 to get there) i attend a group interview (really weird, i'm supposed to compete for a job by co-operating with other applicants?) anyway i failed the interview (by the way did i mention i'm a machinist and the job was to work at the cheque centre? a horrible payday loans company that sucks you into a cycle of forever being in debt with them). so the jobcentre wasted my time and cash by sending me for a job i was never going to get at a place that would have cost me over £50 a week to travel to. i look for work all the time and i volunteer for a charity (restoring donated furniture and the proceeds go to said charity).
the jobcentre at one point wanted me to quit my HND to go on a course "to help me find a job" as i pointed out to them at the time that the course i was on would probably help me get a job because it had a real qualification at the end of it. i asked what the jobcentre course would entail, and i quote "during this course you will be talking to other unemployed people about why you are unemployed." i felt like crying. luckily i got work in a bar and with my HND got a job as a machinist in a bespoke furniture factory. now how would have talking to other unemployed people have helped me get that job? quite simply it wouldn't have. this felt like reality that day.

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having a trade under your belt.for sticking to your guns.
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From they're point of view, while your on these courses your not classed as unemployed, so really it's just one of they're ways of keeping the unemployment figures down...they don't actually expect you to get a job out of it.

Originally posted by DBCooper71
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From their point of view, while your on these courses your not classed as unemployed, so really it's just one of they're ways of keeping the unemployment figures down...they don't actually expect you to get a job out of it.

i have often suspected this as these courses are dire (and mostly run by private companies for a profit), i have been on one where they showed me how to write a CV, and then on another course they told me that CV was totally wrong! there is more hinder than help on these things, remploy were particularily bad, my bro is currently on a course to help him become more "employable", my brother is a welder/mechanic and he can't get a job not because he is not "employable" enough he can't get a job because there are none. he went for a job at the ford garage along with about 600 other people, when you have that many applicants the employers get the cherry pick.