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Originally Posted by 20000miles  So yes or no, do unemployment payments disincentivise job seeking? |
NO!!! THEY ******************************G DON'T!
If the system was that you get 80% of your previous income for as long as you like then yes, it
might# but when your income drops by
two thirds* you don't think "YEY! now I don't have to work".
Nobody likes being unemployed, I know, I am at the moment, granted I'm a student and I normally have stuff to do during the day in term, but this is the first holiday season (which is over a month for me unlike people outside college with jobs) since I started working where I've had no job, and I can tell you the novelty wears off pretty damm fast, it's mind numbingly boring, theres no point in having all that free time when you've no money and everyone else is working during most of the time you have free, it's soul destroying and depressing sitting on your ass most of the day, NOBODY, other than professional scumbags, enjoys just hanging around all day.
I can, from my perspective, only imagine how much worse it would be if I was previously laid off from full time career I liked, I'm so glad this boredom ends for me in a week, I doubt there are many who would endure it for months or years
by choice.
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Originally Posted by Essential Piece Well thank you!! I've been saying this for the past 18 months and hearing only an echo. You have child allowance, Lone Parents payments, rent allowance Widows pension - seriously - why work? You can stay at home and get more money than someone slogging away in a factory job. |
Ahh the politics.ie myth of the wonderful Irish welfare state, have you ever actually tried applying for any of those?, and I love how posters here always stick them all together and add up the diffrent rates, as if there are so many windowed lone parents with 6 kids out there
*and thats just for people on the average industrial wage the drop is steeper for those making more than that.
# for those that would not die of boredom with nothing to do all day