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Day 3 of 365 - The Last Meal...
well todays been a long day, had loads to do. so heres just a simple photo to sum up my day and my major thought.
2morrow i start my "10 day Lemonade Detox".. so this is that last time im going to be eating drinking anything i want haha. i think i can cope with out milkshake for that long =)
boo!, got a call today about my JobSeekers.. damn it. i hate to be on it but i worked and paid my taxes, so im guess im not free loading. gotta find a job sharpish thou.
todays was the final Celebrations of liverpools " City of Culture 08". there were huge Fireworks down by the dosck, and loads of random street proformances everywere.
i think i'll hav eto step up the photo 2morrow as todays lacks abit of effort haha. but been to busy to try do somthing. i cant beleive i spent 10minutes digging through the althabety spaggetti to try find all the letters.
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A very genuine looking Bedford KM dropside tipper LTL553G.
This lorry appears to have had only one previous farmer owner- FH & G Hotchkin of High Grounds Farm, Little Hale, Sleaford.
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When I took this photograph I was unaware of the "Stop 67" campaign and I was more interested in the colourful building at the corner of Poolbeg Street and Tara Street.
The 'STOP67' campaign includes the National Women's Council of Ireland, Age Action and Active Retirement Ireland.
Controversial pension reforms in Ireland not only leave retirees at a loss of at least €45 per week until the State pension eventually kicks in, but are also degrading in forcing retirees to apply for Jobseeker’s Benefit which is means tested.
Liberty Hall is the headquarters of the Services, Industrial, Professional, and Technical Union (SIPTU). Designed by Desmond Rea O'Kelly, it was formerly the tallest storeyed building in the state, at 59.4 metres, (195 feet) high until it was superseded by the County Hall in Cork city, which was itself superseded by The Elysian in Cork. Liberty Hall is now the fourth tallest building in Dublin, after Capital Dock, Montevetro (now Google Docks) and the Millennium Tower in Grand Canal Dock.
Liberty Hall is more historically significant in its earlier form, as the headquarters of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union early in the 20th century, and also as the headquarters of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA).
Just as I was wallowing in the glory of reaching number one on Explore I find myself fired from my job. It was just a temp office thing and I had severe trouble staying awake for an entire day there.
Amusingly I discovered the advertisement they had written to recruit my replacement on the computer system. As I realised what I was reading I got that sickly stomach lurch that you get when you discover that your first school boyfriend has gone off you when you see him sitting with the big breasted blonde girl in the canteen, or when your group of girlfriends cast you out of the gang because you decided to grow a fringe when one of the others had already decided to grow a fringe and felt that she had exclusive rights to such a hair style and therefore you must go.
The difference this time though was that I didn’t actually mind being ‘let go’. I have quit so many jobs and I hate the guilty feeling of ‘giving up’ so it was actually liberating to have no control over it….they don’t want me….there is nothing I can do…I can head off to the pub and drown my sorrows and feel no dilemma about my decision.
I think people are more lenient on those who have been sacked than those that choose to leave. Even if you are sacked because you called in daily bomb threats to the office, groped the crotches of the male ‘members’ of staff on an hourly basis, uploaded viruses to everyone’s computers and never actually managed to hit the toilet bowl with any of your excretions it seems that the fact that someone else decided that they didn’t want you is better than you deciding you didn’t want them.
I refer particularly at this point to the wonderful world of the jobcentre…..If you, as I have (many many times) applied for jobseekers allowance you will find that as long as you have never before been employed or you have been sacked you can immediately claim for benefits. But if you have heinously left a job by your own choice, for whatever reason, you are looked upon as the devil incarnate. They alert Scotland Yard, send out private detectives, Jack Bauer and the entire CSI team to find out exactly why you ‘voluntarily’ left. They spend months deciding whether you are a terribly naughty person who doesn’t deserve 40 quid a week. Of course by the time they finally decide whether you are worthy you have found yourself another job – and you now know very well to make sure that you get fired from this one!
Anyway the only thing to do at this point was to crack open the bubbles......
Is that picture all about some friendly kissing or is it real love with two girls. We can only guess that but at least the picture affects all of us in a different way. What was the first thing coming to your mind seeing the picture; Desire? Dislike? Fear? Sympathy?
What about in general case, how people think about lesbians in Australia or in your own country? How people behave if they see lesbians at a street kissing or holding their hands. Does people tolerate it or is it still thing that people want to deny. What about if you are applying for a job and you're asked about marital status and your answer as girl is that you live with a girl. Is it good or bad thing for you as a jobseeker? Or is it a thing that is nothing to do with that job and you should get that job despite what is your marital status or sexuality.
I think that it is also illegal to judge someone according what his/her sexuality is. That is discrimination. But does that judgement still happen in today's world? - Yes, I think so.
Mikko
Today i made a decision to go it alone, become a Self Employed Photographer. I am stepping out into the world and using the skills and qualifications i have gained and spent money on to...hopefully....earn me an income. (well the climate isn't that great for jobseekers like myself at the moment)
It is something my mum kept pushing me to do, she always had confidence in everything my sister, father and i did. So i have purchased myself a good camera, some good lenses and now to make something of myself. Push as hard as mum always pushed me and prove to her she was right to believe in me. She always said i had the skills to work for myself.....so here is to the start of a brighter future.
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I am left to wonder if there are millions of jobseekers who are entirely unaware of what the headline says.
From the Unite Community leaflet
'STOP Universal Credit
Despite knowing Universal Credit causes serious problems for claimants, the Tory government is pressing ahead and rolling it out to thousands of people who will have to wait weeks to receive any money.
Claimants are descending into debt, relying on food banks, getting into rent arrears and in many cases getting evicted from their homes because of in- built problems with Universal Credit.
Who gets Universal Credit
Universal Credit replaces six benefits - child tax credit, housing benefit, income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance, income-related employment and support allowance and working tax credit.
Seven million households will be affected, including over one million low paid part-time ' workers. For the first time ever people in work could face being sanctioned (having their benefits stopped) if they don't prove to the job centre that they're searching for better paid work or more hours.
10 reasons why Universal Credit should be stopped
• Unbearably long waits for claimants to receive money
• People can only apply for Universal Credit online making it inaccessible for many
• Not enough help for claimants when the system fails them
• Rent paid directly to claimants instead of Landlords causing people to get into arrears and even to lose their homes
• Letting agents are already refusing to rent to anyone claiming Universal Credit
• Cruel sanctions for both in-work and out-of-work claimants
• Payments only go to one named member of a household
• Universal Credit takes 63p in every £1 people earn
• UC leaves many working families much worse off than the old system
• People in part-time work could be forced to give up work that suits their disability or family life in order to take up worse paid full-time work or risk sanctions.
Get help
To find out what benefits you're entitled to or for further help or information on Universal Credit visit Turn2us, a national charity that helps people gain access to welfare benefits and support services through their website or helpline. '
Email you MP and teII them if you've been affected by Universal Credit. You can look up you MP here - www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25356/clive_lewis/norwich_south
www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24691/chloe_smith/norwich_north
Tell us your story
Have you been affected by Universal Credit? If you would like to speak to Unite about your experience of Universal Credit please contact Liane.groves@unitetheunion.org '
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Ensign. I think it was, who undertook extensive modifcation work on a number of ex-London Fleetlines to make them into exhibition vehicles. Utterly unrecognisable as the former DMS1469, save for the registration plate, MLH 469L waits optimistically outside Rochdale Town Hall for prospective jobseekers. This is how nature intended the bus to look.
Royalty-free 3d computer generated business graphic of a group of businessmen in colorful shirts, carrying briefcases and holding their resumes up at a job interview. It is a full-color employement clipart picture on a white background.
Street scene Taunton UK.
The number of people out of work fell by 18,000 to 2.49 million in the three months to August, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The unemployment rate of the economically active population decreased slightly, down 0.1% to 7.7%.
The number of people in work is 29.87 million.
The claimant count - the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance - fell by 41,700 to 1.35 million in September, the lowest level since January 2009.
The figures don't make life any easier.
I'm waiting for my man:
He's never early, he's always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait
(lou Reed)
Nearly 500 job seekers and 120 employers participated in the College of DuPage's third annual Career Fair.
The event provided information and networking opportunities for job seekers who are unemployed or underemployed, looking to change careers, or recent graduates who are not yet employed in their chosen field.
Art based on James Williamson’s illustration for “Happy Days are Here Again” by Joseph Wechsberg in “The Saturday Evening Post,” May 17, 1947.
“He had an unpronounceable name, an accent and a flashy car that had stopped traffic on two continents. So why should the fact that he was a chef keep him becoming a big Hollywood director?” [Prologue]
“The car was a baccarat-green, twelve-cylinder Grand Sport cabriolet, half as long as a city block, with a custom-built body – the graceful, slim, magnificent body of a thoroughbred. The seats were of antelope leather. A small Tabriz rug was fastened to the floor. The rug was a gift of former King Umberto of Italy, who – according to Geza – had used the car on his last visit to Madrid. Or perhaps it had been given to him by the Maharajadhiraj of Indore or the Duke of Windsor, whom he also sometimes mentioned. From what Geza used to say, it was never quite clear what he was saying.
“‘She has won the Concours d’Élégance in Brussels and Lisbon, the Grand Prix of Deauville, and was twice awarded gold medals by the Paris Salon,’ Geza would say. When he spoke of the car, his cold, granite-colored eyes took on a soft, misty shine. He’d always speak of the car as though it were ‘she,’ his ideal of a beautiful woman. ‘She’s combining the lean body of a long-stemmed American show girl, the creamy complexion of an English lady, and the unaccountable temperament of a Hungarian woman,’ he would say . . .” [Excerpt from the story]
By PETER S. GOODMAN
September 27, 2009.
Despite signs that the economy has resumed growing, unemployed Americans now confront a job market that is bleaker than ever in the current recession, and employment prospects are still getting worse.
Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking open positions in 2000. According to the Labor Department’s latest numbers, from July, only 2.4 million full-time permanent jobs were open, with 14.5 million people officially unemployed.
And even though the pace of layoffs is slowing, many companies remain anxious about growth prospects in the months ahead, making them reluctant to add to their payrolls.
“There’s too much uncertainty out there,” said Thomas A. Kochan, a labor economist at M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management. “There’s not going to be an upsurge in job openings for quite a while, not until employers feel confident the economy is really growing.”
The dearth of jobs reflects the caution of many American businesses when no one knows what will emerge to propel the economy. With unemployment at 9.7 percent nationwide, the shortage of paychecks is both a cause and an effect of weak hiring.
In Milwaukee, Debbie Kransky has been without work since February, when she was laid off from a medical billing position — her second job loss in two years. She has exhausted her unemployment benefits, because her last job lasted for only a month.
Indeed, in a perverse quirk of the unemployment system, she would have qualified for continued benefits had she stayed jobless the whole two years, rather than taking a new position this year. But since her latest unemployment claim stemmed from a job that lasted mere weeks, she recently drew her final check of $340.
Ms. Kransky, 51, has run through her life savings of roughly $10,000. Her job search has garnered little besides anxiety.
“I’ve worked my entire life,” said Ms. Kransky, who lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment. “I’ve got October rent. After that, I don’t know. I’ve never lived month to month my entire life. I’m just so scared, I can’t even put it into words.”
Last week, Ms. Kransky was invited to an interview for a clerical job with a health insurance company. She drove her Jeep truck downtown and waited in the lobby of an office building for nearly an hour, but no one showed. Despondent, she drove home, down $10 in gasoline.
For years, the economy has been powered by consumers, who borrowed exuberantly against real estate and tapped burgeoning stock portfolios to spend in excess of their incomes. Those sources of easy money have mostly dried up. Consumption is now tempered by saving; optimism has been eclipsed by worry.
Meanwhile, some businesses are in a holding pattern as they await the financial consequences of the health care reforms being debated in Washington.
Even after companies regain an inclination to expand, they will probably not hire aggressively anytime soon. Experts say that so many businesses have pared back working hours for people on their payrolls, while eliminating temporary workers, that many can increase output simply by increasing the workload on existing employees.
“They have tons of room to increase work without hiring a single person,” said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute Economist. “For people who are out of work, we do not see signs of light at the end of the tunnel.”
Even typically hard-charging companies are showing caution.
During the technology bubble of the late 1990s and again this decade, Cisco Systems — which makes Internet equipment — expanded rapidly. As the sense takes hold that the recession has passed, Cisco is again envisioning double-digit rates of sales growth, with plans to move aggressively into new markets, like the business of operating large scale computer data servers.
Yet even as Cisco pursues such designs, the company’s chief executive, John T. Chambers, said in an interview Friday that he anticipated “slow hiring,” given concerns about the vigor of growth ahead. “We’ll be doing it selectively,” he said.
Two recent surveys of newspaper help-wanted advertisements and of employers’ inclinations to add workers were at their lowest levels on record, noted Andrew Tilton, a Goldman Sachs economist.
Job placement companies say their customers are not yet wiling to hire large numbers of temporary workers, usually a precursor to hiring full-timers.
“It’s going to take quite some time before we see robust job growth,” said Tig Gilliam, chief executive of Adecco North America, a major job placement and staffing company.
During the last recession, in 2001, the number of jobless people reached little more than double the number of full-time job openings, according to the Labor Department data. By the beginning of this year, job seekers outnumbered jobs four-to-one, with the ratio growing ever more lopsided in recent months.
Though layoffs have been both severe and prominent, the greatest source of distress is a predilection against hiring by many American businesses. From the beginning of the recession in December 2007 through July of this year, job openings declined 45 percent in the West and the South, 36 percent in the Midwest and 23 percent in the Northeast.
Shrinking job opportunities have assailed virtually every industry this year. Since the end of 2008, job openings have diminished 47 percent in manufacturing, 37 percent in construction and 22 percent in retail. Even in education and health services — faster-growing areas in which many unemployed people have trained for new careers — job openings have dropped 21 percent this year. Despite the passage of a stimulus spending package aimed at shoring up state and local coffers, government job openings have diminished 17 percent this year.
In the suburbs of Chicago, Vicki Redican, 52, has been unemployed for almost two years, since she lost her $75,000-a-year job as a sales and marketing manager at a plastics company. College-educated, Ms. Redican first sought another management job. More recently, she has tried and failed to land a cashier’s position at a local grocery store, and a barista slot at a Starbucks coffee shop.
Substitute teaching assignments once helped her pay the bills. “Now, there are so many people substitute teaching that I can no longer get assignments,” she said.
“I’ve learned that I can’t look to tomorrow,” she said. “Every day, I try to do the best I can. I say to myself, ‘I don’t control this process.’ That’s the only way you can look at it. Otherwise, you’d have to go up on the roof and crack your head open.”
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Job seekers and employers filled the Fairfax County Government Center during the Seventh Annual Fairfax Mega Job Fair and Entrepreneurship Expo on Saturday, March 26, 2011. The event was sponsored by Fairfax County Department of Family Services, the Business Development Assistance Group and SkillSource Group, Inc.
Find out how SkillSource can help you at www.myskillsource.org/home/jobseekers_onestop_fairfax.shtml.
Find our about Fairfax County's Employment and Training Services at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dfs/ss/employtraining.htm.
Nearly 500 job seekers and 120 employers participated in the College of DuPage's third annual Career Fair.
The event provided information and networking opportunities for job seekers who are unemployed or underemployed, looking to change careers, or recent graduates who are not yet employed in their chosen field.
Nearly 500 job seekers and 120 employers participated in the College of DuPage's third annual Career Fair.
The event provided information and networking opportunities for job seekers who are unemployed or underemployed, looking to change careers, or recent graduates who are not yet employed in their chosen field.
Nearly 500 job seekers and 120 employers participated in the College of DuPage's third annual Career Fair.
The event provided information and networking opportunities for job seekers who are unemployed or underemployed, looking to change careers, or recent graduates who are not yet employed in their chosen field.
The Measure H Job Fair took place at Los Angeles Trade Tech on Friday April 13, 2018 in south Los Angeles, CA. ( Photo Courtesy / Los Angeles County )
Nearly 500 job seekers and 120 employers participated in the College of DuPage's third annual Career Fair.
The event provided information and networking opportunities for job seekers who are unemployed or underemployed, looking to change careers, or recent graduates who are not yet employed in their chosen field.
Nearly 500 job seekers and 120 employers participated in the College of DuPage's third annual Career Fair.
The event provided information and networking opportunities for job seekers who are unemployed or underemployed, looking to change careers, or recent graduates who are not yet employed in their chosen field.
Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed - Press Release:
Budget 2013 and unemployment
After much speculation Budget 2013 has finally been announced. The Budget does not do enough in two vital areas. It will make the path to work, education and training more difficult for unemployed people and will further undermine the social insurance model, a model that the Minister sees as integral to our social protection system.
As predicted the duration an unemployed person can stay on Jobseekers Benefit has been cut from 12 months to 9 if he or she has made over 260 PRSI contributions. Similarly, if the person has paid less than 260 contributions they will only now have an entitlement to a JB payment for 6 months. So, for example, a person who has worked for 20 years or more and whose partner is working may find themselves cut adrift from any supports from the State after nine months. Yet he or she will be unemployed, see him or herself as unemployed but they will receive no supports from the State to assist them to get back to work.
Yet the State will be taking more PRSI contributions off all workers as anyone earning over €352 per week will pay on everything after: this is a regressive step and will particularly hit low income workers.
Another striking feature of the budget is the cutting of supports for unemployed people undertaking further education and training. This will hit in particular young people for whom Jobseekers Allowance had been cut in the past to encourage them to take up education and training options. The rationale for offering participants a full rate was to support people to re-skill themselves, to improve their chances of securing employment. Yet the cut to the Cost of Education Allowance; the equalisation of a training allowance with a participant’s previous social welfare payment; and a maximum limit of €160 for young people will make it harder for people to go down this path as they will find it unaffordable.
Child Benefit has not only been cut by €10: it has also been cut from €148 for the third child to €130; and from €160 for 4th child+ to €140. The provision of additional childcare or early years supports may be of benefit to some families. However, for many families struggling on a social welfare payment or a low income job this cut in Child Benefit is further exacerbated by the cut in the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance. This payment has been cut from €150 to €100 for children of primary age; and from €250 to €200 for children aged 12+. Yet the cost of education continues to rise. According to the last Consumer Price Index education inflation ran at 6.7% in comparison to a national average of 1.2%.
The INOU is acutely aware of the importance of local and community development in providing important supports and services to unemployed people including the provision of access to employment. At a time when increasing demand on the ground it is disappointing to see further expenditure cuts envisaged for these programmes.
On a positive note the maintenance of the basic social welfare rate, as sought by the INOU, is to be welcomed. As are the additional places in Community Employment, TUS, JobBridge: it is critical important that these supports are meaningful for participants and lead on to decent employment.
Updated 24.08.2013
Today I received through post a letter from jobcentre, outlining their decision on my jobseekers allowance payments, ie financial assistance with finding work, food, cloth, also, money for bills. I have enclosed pictures of the letter I got today from Jobcentre. I am not happy, I am going to carefully approach and contact/telephone jobcentre, to ask to have another look at my jobcentre jobseeker allowance case, I cannot sit back and do nothing. Its affecting my job search, also I was meaning to contact ie approach recruitment agency
(now I have to Postpone that plan again!!) with the money I get from jobseeker allowance. They might have overlooked evidence.
I am trying everything to get back to work, the money i get. My former employer and employees, and those who crossed my path (tall, big, small, fat and intimidating they looked!) thought i didn't have balls, i.e to survive out there by myself!, and make and earn lot of money, hence they were wealth and powerful!, threw my cv to one side, while i watch them walk away, with smile on their faces with rolex, omega watch's on their wrist!. similar style of people!. I did Not want to post this letter i got from jobcentre on my flickr account, i have no other option, whose going to believe me!, also, take my word seriously over theres, what ever them claim they are!, of cause i take them seriously, also my former employers, employees, .!......
1) - This page is also linked to my other flickr page, on this same account, please click on link then scroll down page, for posting dated 23.8.2013, www.flickr.com/photos/sajidpervaizfazal/9098427293/in/pho...
2) - This page is also linked to my other flickr page, on this same account, please click on link, www.flickr.com/photos/sajidpervaizfazal/9582575253/in/pho...
Kind regards, Mr sajid pervaiz fazal
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Updated 28.08.2013
Jobcentre telephone number i rang at the jobcentre: 0845 6043719, then i tried 0845 608 8545
I spoke to Jobcentre today to appeal against the decision made on my JSA, my 'jobseekers allowance payment were suspended because a doubt was raised with regards to finding work'. when i spoke to jobcentre, i pointed out the decision was incorrect, because they have seen the evidence, i.e. what work i have been doing to get back to work, both on paper, online, that took place on Thursaday 22nd August 2013 at 9.15am and 10.00am. Sound of here voice, she thinks it never happened i.e they never saw evidence i put forward to them on 22.8.2013 at 9.15am and 10.00am!!. I replied i was there last week, I then asked politely i wanted to appeal (reference to the letter, complete leaflet GL24), against the decision, the reply i got back was NO!.
I then asked also appointed out, the decision to suspended my JSA payment, does that in anyway relate to further training courses, they want me to attend, that i was not aware of. The reply was, from sound of it NO!
I then asked please allow me to prove to everyone what i have been doing to find work, also, my work is backed up online!, example, job application form, curriculum vitae, twitter, facebook, still the reply was NO. After a while, she consider my plea over the telephone, let me bring in evidence what i am doing to get back to work, women at the jobcentre decided she and jobcentre wanted me to complete DR7 - Review form, the case might be looked at again. I appointed out i never heard of DR7 form, its not mention in the letter from jobcentre, because the letter i got from jobcentre please see above, and on next page, mentions appeal process is outlined on GL24 form, 'if you think the decision was overlooked'. I was asked to get hold of DR7 form from the jobcentre, complete and hand it in. Then wait for the decision.
I then asked politely, could she also book a appointment for me at the Willesden Jobcentre Plus, Chancel House, neasden Lane London Nw10 2XH, again i had to wait for a reply, then she manged to book me at the Willesden Jobcentre Plus, this Friday 30th August 2013, time, either 11.45am, 12.15pm, 12.45pm, its one of those time.
Also, i asked will this affect my Housing benefit claim, because i am renting flat from private landlord, via housing benefit, she replied yes, for example if my jobseekers allowance for what ever reason, gets closed/withdrawn, because if they think there was doubt else i was not doing enough to find work!, that is what would happen, I explained, then that meant, i'll end up on the streets/homeless, the discussion end and sudden silence.
I also appointed out at my last signing on day, on the 22nd August 2013, at 9.15am and 10.00am, where i was interviewed by jobcentre staff (black women at 9.15am and Asian women 10.00am) i provide evidence on paper, also 'discussed' what i was doing to find work, now, i still have the paper work on me what i shown to jobcentre as proof, i.e. evidence what i have been doing to find work, they looked confident what i was doing, then provided further guidance, what areas of my curriculum vitae needed improving, also, iit was appointed out, fill in areas where there are employment gaps in my curriculum vitae, i explained im working on it. I also appointed out i was planning/attempting to attend evening surgery, held with councilors and the community in brent area of london, and try to participate what work was being done in the community, and also, introduce myself, ie if i can offer my experience and skill on volunteer bases, to fast track projects current in progress. Also, put forward my opinion, hopefully i get noticed, also approached, i.e to take discussion forward further, on my experience and skills. She replied fill in the employment history gaps.
Please note, the letter displayed above, there a second page to it, please click on the link to view the page, www.flickr.com/photos/sajidpervaizfazal/9582575253/in/pho...
My appolgy goes out to everyone, also those that might get in cross fire, also, forbid if that ever happens, i do not want to create bad publicity, how and where did everything go wrong!!!.
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Updated 02.09.2013
Follow up to my last message posted here dated 28.08.2013. I did attended the appointment at the jobcentre, at the correct time 12.15pm.
Interview/Meeting took place with a women called Miss/Mrs meaner/mean, before the meeting on the same day, i had to complete DR7 form, as well as JSA/ESA10 JP Hardship form, in this form i pointed out, it is matter of urgency, i am renting private property, the JSA allowance/payment i get, from jobcentre, with that I pay electricity every month, on top of that i pay monthly installment deposit!, (landlord was kind to offer me the property whilst everyone looked the other way), also, ever month i have to pay what i owe Banks including overdrafts!!!!!, also, i have to pay for the mobile internet, also i have to pay for the mobile phone use, on top of that i have to pay for travel expense. Now, if everyone are asking how do I manage to balance my finance books, with little money i get from JSA, how can i explain it to everyone, (same apply to my f..... former employers, employees that crossed my path, they also gave me a difficult time, deliberately held back my pay bonus/rise/stopping me from setting up my own business v), Example, NOW, if my understanding is correct, how the economy work, example, you borrow money from another country, whilst controlling interest on the repayment plan, also, making cut here and there, then you make cuts on how much food you eat, you make cuts how often you travel, (can do printing, applying jobs from the flat), how often you drink, smoke, also make cuts on transportation costs, traveling around, also delivery of goods, then little by little the penny add up, then the deficit balance on my bank account, after over 1-2 year estimate turns into surplus/credit, and only then do i start shopping buying myself cloth's, equipment to get back to work!. Now, they trying to put me back into the red with the bank, also preventing me from purchasing what i need. The question everyone are asking, do i speak the truth, obvious answer is yes, so whats the problem, also, the one's that crossed my path sitting in that hot seat, hiring and firing in each department, what a nightmare what they are.
IF everyone is still confused, don't ask me to explain it how i managed to balance my finance books also survive, because i wouldn't know how to explain it to anyone over the past 35 years, now count back from financial year 2013.
If i had the power at work/country, i would have sacked everyone, could not stand sight of them, they now who they are, also, i would have their salary and pension reduced, also i would taken their company car away from them, also, i would asked everyone to consider moving on!. Well, you never going to know, i have other urgent matters to be working on, (getting back to work .....) also, my health and fitness is a concern.
I also handed jobcentre assessor/advisory Miss/Mrs meaner, same evidence of paperwork i.e. what i was doing to find work, same evidence i provided to jobcentre 3 weeks ago to a different adviser!. In total i provided excess of 15 pages, pages included curriculum vitae, covering letters in different formats, depending the line of job i am applying, I also submitted to jobcentre further paperwork, (evidence), demonstrating i am prepared to setting up my own limited company, either with else without recruitment agency!, where i have to borrow a loan from the bank, My work online also appoints out that i know what i am doing!, what is required to get the job done, in my opinion how the finance/project work is done, it also, demonstrates, that's ANOTHER piece my OWN ORIGINAL portfolio work online for everyone to see, then reference it back to me!, how can i explain this, the idea, and we took idea from sajid pervaiz fazal orignal work, and they cross reference it back to me. Also, it is further evidence for jobcentre, it extension of my curriculum vitae, and reference, how can i explain this ......v...., its AGAIN another example, if there doubt surfacing from ..........., well, here ANOTHER COPY of my original work online for everyone around the world to look at, then cross that to references/what ever everyone have heard.
Now, i completed the necessary form requested from Jobcentre and jobcentre advisor Miss/Mrs Meaner, also, i demanded a copy of what i submitted to jobcentre, however, they explained they don't often provide copies what ever is handed in, however, allowed me to have copies of couple pages what i signed and handed into jobcentre.
Now, i can only wait in the decision from jobcentre, meanwhile continue job search.
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Updated on 15.09.2013
Jobcentre have made their final decision, they are not going to pay me my jsa jobseeker allowance for that specific month in august, please read early messages posted on this page, therefore I no money to prepare for next training course they asked me to attend in wembley in london.
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It is final, i have not been payed my Jobseeker Allowance, for the period month between Mid August 2013 - Mid- September 2013, that what the decision someone pressured jobcentre to make it official final decision. (if that's the correct process, british independent professional fraud team!). Now, i am over drawn, and find it difficult to mange my finances and budget. I have asked landlord the property i renting from now, (i hope he never finds out!) if he will permit me extension, because i cannot pay September 2013 this monthly bills, electricity..., also, i cannot pay the studio flat deposit this month, I have short changed him financial/profits, and it was not my fault.
Please put the word out, what could follow, happen, and with everything going on!.
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Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed - Press Release:
Budget 2013 and unemployment
After much speculation Budget 2013 has finally been announced. The Budget does not do enough in two vital areas. It will make the path to work, education and training more difficult for unemployed people and will further undermine the social insurance model, a model that the Minister sees as integral to our social protection system.
As predicted the duration an unemployed person can stay on Jobseekers Benefit has been cut from 12 months to 9 if he or she has made over 260 PRSI contributions. Similarly, if the person has paid less than 260 contributions they will only now have an entitlement to a JB payment for 6 months. So, for example, a person who has worked for 20 years or more and whose partner is working may find themselves cut adrift from any supports from the State after nine months. Yet he or she will be unemployed, see him or herself as unemployed but they will receive no supports from the State to assist them to get back to work.
Yet the State will be taking more PRSI contributions off all workers as anyone earning over €352 per week will pay on everything after: this is a regressive step and will particularly hit low income workers.
Another striking feature of the budget is the cutting of supports for unemployed people undertaking further education and training. This will hit in particular young people for whom Jobseekers Allowance had been cut in the past to encourage them to take up education and training options. The rationale for offering participants a full rate was to support people to re-skill themselves, to improve their chances of securing employment. Yet the cut to the Cost of Education Allowance; the equalisation of a training allowance with a participant’s previous social welfare payment; and a maximum limit of €160 for young people will make it harder for people to go down this path as they will find it unaffordable.
Child Benefit has not only been cut by €10: it has also been cut from €148 for the third child to €130; and from €160 for 4th child+ to €140. The provision of additional childcare or early years supports may be of benefit to some families. However, for many families struggling on a social welfare payment or a low income job this cut in Child Benefit is further exacerbated by the cut in the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance. This payment has been cut from €150 to €100 for children of primary age; and from €250 to €200 for children aged 12+. Yet the cost of education continues to rise. According to the last Consumer Price Index education inflation ran at 6.7% in comparison to a national average of 1.2%.
The INOU is acutely aware of the importance of local and community development in providing important supports and services to unemployed people including the provision of access to employment. At a time when increasing demand on the ground it is disappointing to see further expenditure cuts envisaged for these programmes.
On a positive note the maintenance of the basic social welfare rate, as sought by the INOU, is to be welcomed. As are the additional places in Community Employment, TUS, JobBridge: it is critical important that these supports are meaningful for participants and lead on to decent employment.
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Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed - Press Release:
Budget 2013 and unemployment
After much speculation Budget 2013 has finally been announced. The Budget does not do enough in two vital areas. It will make the path to work, education and training more difficult for unemployed people and will further undermine the social insurance model, a model that the Minister sees as integral to our social protection system.
As predicted the duration an unemployed person can stay on Jobseekers Benefit has been cut from 12 months to 9 if he or she has made over 260 PRSI contributions. Similarly, if the person has paid less than 260 contributions they will only now have an entitlement to a JB payment for 6 months. So, for example, a person who has worked for 20 years or more and whose partner is working may find themselves cut adrift from any supports from the State after nine months. Yet he or she will be unemployed, see him or herself as unemployed but they will receive no supports from the State to assist them to get back to work.
Yet the State will be taking more PRSI contributions off all workers as anyone earning over €352 per week will pay on everything after: this is a regressive step and will particularly hit low income workers.
Another striking feature of the budget is the cutting of supports for unemployed people undertaking further education and training. This will hit in particular young people for whom Jobseekers Allowance had been cut in the past to encourage them to take up education and training options. The rationale for offering participants a full rate was to support people to re-skill themselves, to improve their chances of securing employment. Yet the cut to the Cost of Education Allowance; the equalisation of a training allowance with a participant’s previous social welfare payment; and a maximum limit of €160 for young people will make it harder for people to go down this path as they will find it unaffordable.
Child Benefit has not only been cut by €10: it has also been cut from €148 for the third child to €130; and from €160 for 4th child+ to €140. The provision of additional childcare or early years supports may be of benefit to some families. However, for many families struggling on a social welfare payment or a low income job this cut in Child Benefit is further exacerbated by the cut in the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance. This payment has been cut from €150 to €100 for children of primary age; and from €250 to €200 for children aged 12+. Yet the cost of education continues to rise. According to the last Consumer Price Index education inflation ran at 6.7% in comparison to a national average of 1.2%.
The INOU is acutely aware of the importance of local and community development in providing important supports and services to unemployed people including the provision of access to employment. At a time when increasing demand on the ground it is disappointing to see further expenditure cuts envisaged for these programmes.
On a positive note the maintenance of the basic social welfare rate, as sought by the INOU, is to be welcomed. As are the additional places in Community Employment, TUS, JobBridge: it is critical important that these supports are meaningful for participants and lead on to decent employment.
Nearly 500 job seekers and 120 employers participated in the College of DuPage's third annual Career Fair.
The event provided information and networking opportunities for job seekers who are unemployed or underemployed, looking to change careers, or recent graduates who are not yet employed in their chosen field.
Four former staff of scandal-hit dole-to-jobs firm A4E admit swindling taxpayers
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551242/Four-former-staf...
Fraud investigations -
Hull -
On 28 June 2009, The Observer disclosed information regarding a fraud investigation into A4e which was instigated after the Department for Work and Pensions uncovered discrepancies in its "confirmation of employment" forms - discrepancies which centred upon the falsification of employers' signatures by a number of recruiters. One recruiter also made a fraudulent deal with a local temp agency.
A4e's official statement read: 'All the matters raised in the article are known to both A4e and the DWP and have been the subject of both an A4e investigation and a DWP led investigation. The A4e investigation revealed that whilst candidates had real job opportunities, these jobs did not meet the funding criteria being less than 13 weeks and 16 hours a week in duration. These investigations have resulted in the departure of both individuals from the company and the ceasing of all activity with the employment agency concerned.'
Teesside -
Another case of signature forgery emerged on 6 March 2012. This took place while A4e was working for Redcar and Cleveland Council to help disadvantaged young people into education, training or employment. A Council inquiry found that learners' signatures had been forged to exaggerate the number of vulnerable people the project had reached. A4e was forced to withdraw from this part of the project.
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP Tom Blenkinsop said: 'There needs to be a full investigation into this case. This is public money here, and this must be looked into to restore confidence into all regeneration projects carried out locally.'
2012 fraud investigations.
In January 2012, four former employees of A4e were arrested on suspicion of fraud dating back to 2010. The alleged fraud was uncovered by an internal investigation by A4e. The two women, aged 28 and 49, and two men, aged 35 and 41 were bailed until mid-March.On 22 February The Guardian revealed that A4e had forced jobseekers to work unpaid in its own offices, had been investigated nine times by the Department for Work and Pensions since 2005, and had been forced to repay public funds on five separate occasions after government investigations found 'irregularities'.
Emma Harrison resigned as chairman of A4e on 24 February 2012, amid criticism of 'improper' conflicts of interest regarding government contracts and allegations of 'routine', 'utterly rife' fraud from whistleblowers.
On 26 February 2012, Thames Valley Police’s Economic Crime Unit was revealed to be investigating the alleged theft by A4e staff of ‘tens of thousands of pounds' worth of vouchers meant to help the unemployed back to work.
The Labour MP Fiona Mactaggart who sits on the Public Accounts Committee has stated 'My view is that this company has demonstrated that it is unfit to hold this kind of contract'. in relation to the Work Programme.
On 9 March 2012, the Department of Work and Pensions announced it had 'been made aware of an allegation of attempted fraud in relation to a Mandatory Work Activity contract with A4e'. It stated that it had begun an investigation into this allegation, and also, as a result of the allegation, an 'independent audit of all our commercial relationships with A4e'.
On 22 March 2012, the BBC's Newsnight current affairs programme revealed that they had received a leaked document suggesting 'systemic fraud' at the company. The following day, Labour MP Margaret Hodge, who chairs the Commons Public Accounts Committee, called on the government to suspend its contracts with the jobs training agency.
On 3 April 2012, Exaro news revealed that A4e was being lined up for another major government contract despite being at the centre of a fraud investigation. Ministers made the company the preferred bidder to take over the sensitive Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) helpline to advise people of their rights in discrimination cases.
On 20 April 2012, Police officers raided A4e's office in Slough after allegations were referred to them by the Department for Work and Pensions. A 33 year old man was arrested and later bailed.
On 22 May 2012, Exaro news published leaked internal audit report which exposed 'potential fraud' at A4e. The report compiled by the audit and risk department examined a sample of 224 of the company’s job placements and found that "potential fraudulent/irregular activity is not confined to one particular geographical area of the division, and shows a potential systematic failure to mitigate the risk towards this behaviour at both an office and regional level". Auditors also discovered A4e sent an unemployed job-seeker to work in lap-dance club.
Three further arrests were made on 14 February 2013 as Police investigations continue.