Workless households at record low, says ONS

[Deepie]

Workless households at record low, says ONS

The proportion of UK households where no adult aged 16 to 64 is in work is at its lowest since comparable records began in 1996, official figures show.


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[pompeyfaith]

Re: Workless households at record low, says ONS

Well stick that up your pipe and smoke it IDS

[PriorityOne]

Re: Workless households at record low, says ONS

What a load of old shit...

The reason why this is so is either because:

a) People have been shoved on poxy training courses to get them off the stats,
b) People have been forced to take zero hour contracts to get them off the stats
c) People have been forced onto work experience placements to get them off the stats
c) People are claiming other Benefits which will take them off the unemployment stats

Not to mention the raising of the school leaving age to keep more young people off the general unemployment stats as well.

Does this Government seriously think that the public are that stupid?!

[julian]

Re: Workless households at record low, says ONS

I agree with P1. Just wondered how they get the stats that they manipulate. They don't knock on your door and ask who is working.

I expect that if you go to ask for benefits, they ask you if anybody in the household is working. If you are living with others who are working you are limited on the benefits if any you can claim, so it is not worth claiming and ending up on the end of one of Dominic Thingy's investigations, even if not guilty of fraud.

In this way you avoid a whole stack of people who live off their savings/redundancy payout/loans and family handouts while looking of work. It does not touch the black economy either. If you are redundant of 55 you could also draw a company pension as there is no chance of work and no point in applying for benefits, but you have a possibility of finding a small income form babysitting or a zero hours contract with B&Q.

[PriorityOne]

Re: Workless households at record low, says ONS

I would love to know where they get the info. from....

The whole country is on a massive fiddle anyway. I could tell you things about the education system that would explain how kids can leave school with a string of qualifications, yet can't read beyond the age of 10 years, tell the time or do joined up thinking....

It's all meant to show that the country is continually improving, so if you have a problem it's your own fault kinda thing. Trouble is, a lot of people are still brainwashed by it.

[MrsD]

Re: Workless households at record low, says ONS

statistics, you can prove anything you want with statistics

[pompeyfaith]

Re: Workless households at record low, says ONS

What a load of old shit...

The reason why this is so is either because:

a) People have been shoved on poxy training courses to get them off the stats,
b) People have been forced to take zero hour contracts to get them off the stats
c) People have been forced onto work experience placements to get them off the stats
c) People are claiming other Benefits which will take them off the unemployment stats

Not to mention the raising of the school leaving age to keep more young people off the general unemployment stats as well.

Does this Government seriously think that the public are that stupid?!

Those on a sanction are also taken off unemployment stats

[PriorityOne]

Re: Workless households at record low, says ONS

Those on a sanction are also taken off unemployment stats

Forgot about that..... the whole thing stinks! Whatever happened to not treating people like idiots and telling the truth?

[pompeyfaith]

Re: Workless households at record low, says ONS

I have nothing against sanctions if they was targeted at the right people but the fact is they are dished out like confetti because JC+ sfaff are under too much pressure and thus the wrong ones are being hit.