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Labour considers £20 jobseeker's allowance top-up

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ed-welfare

It's quite clever, Labour look good while the Tories find it quite hard to criticise in the current climate. And especially considering their image at the moment with IDS, white tie Cameron...

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Re: Labour considers £20 jobseeker's allowance top-up


	Quote: As a first step, Reeves said a higher rate of jobseeker's allowance (JSA) could be paid for the first six weeks of unemployment for people who have paid national insurance contributions (NICs) for about five years.

So no help to the young unemployed then.

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Tue Jan 21, 2014 3:44 pm

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Re: Labour considers £20 jobseeker's allowance top-up

Amnesia10 wrote:


	Quote: As a first step, Reeves said a higher rate of jobseeker's allowance (JSA) could be paid for the first six weeks of unemployment for people who have paid national insurance contributions (NICs) for about five years.

So no help to the young unemployed then.

True but one of the big bugbears for people is that they have "Paid in" for 10/20/30 years and then when they have to claim are trated like the work shy

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Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:04 pm

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Re: Labour considers £20 jobseeker's allowance top-up

Amnesia10 wrote:


	Quote: As a first step, Reeves said a higher rate of jobseeker's allowance (JSA) could be paid for the first six weeks of unemployment for people who have paid national insurance contributions (NICs) for about five years.

So no help to the young unemployed then.

True but one of the big bugbears for people is that they have "Paid in" for 10/20/30 years and then when they have to claim are trated like the work shy

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Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:07 pm

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Re: Labour considers £20 jobseeker's allowance top-up

hifidelity2 wrote:

Amnesia10 wrote:


	Quote: As a first step, Reeves said a higher rate of jobseeker's allowance (JSA) could be paid for the first six weeks of unemployment for people who have paid national insurance contributions (NICs) for about five years.

So no help to the young unemployed then.

True but one of the big bugbears for people is that they have "Paid in" for 10/20/30 years and then when they have to claim are treated like the work shy

I can appreciate that but the thing is that this top up will only be for a few months anyway, and unless they get a job they could be on the lower means tested JSA and treated like they were work shy. In some areas the numbers of unemployed are far higher than the numbers of jobs.

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