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- The new rules from Universal Credit will come into force in April
- Jobseekers will also be forced to accept any job that pays minimum wage
- Claimants can forfeit as much as £10.20 a day for three years
Jobseekers must commute for up to three hours a day to work or risk losing their benefits. Tough new rules this spring will also force them to accept any job that pays the minimum wage. They will be expected to take jobs up to one-and-a-half hours away from home, and job offers will have to be taken up immediately, not deferred.
The rules will come into force with Universal Credit in April. All claimants will have to sign a commitment with a Jobcentre adviser setting out their responsibility to find work. Those who fail to comply risk losing their benefits....Read more here
i am in employment, which is a sigh of relief in these harsh economic times after being made redundant and living unemployed for 10 months. i still like to test the water grounds for employment, with my type of work its specialised, so not many comes through, and have to look far afield.
Having applied on numerous occasions for specialised field and being informed by the employers HR that ALL skills, knowledge fits the bill, that it ALWAYS boils down to the part of 'You live to far to commute' - even if you've told and wrote to them, to say that you'll move. Never seems to show 'Gratis' and that's even 1 hour drive away to North, East, South or West.
So for those that would be expected to 'commute or travel' for £6.50 whatever the Basic minimum wage is nowadays, dose thid ask yourselves the Question?
Shit Sherlock, i seem to be in more DEBT, than before with ALL this freak in' traveling 6 hrs a day?