>> Light manual labour at £15 per hour isn't bad. That's nearly £29,000 a year plus
>> overtime, pensions, healthcare etc.
What does 'light manual labour' involve? £15 is a good rate quite a bit more than I get with a solid grounding in benefits and what I'm told are excellent telephone skills.
>> It is a high employment area but there are still about 2,200 unemployed in the
>> immediate vicinity and about 5,000 within a 20 minute drive.
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>> They should have been able to get full local employment given the number unemployed.
I too live in a high employment area. The 3-5% on long term benefit as job seekers comprise a large proportion who are either (a) medically unfit but lacking the capacity to deal with making a move to health related benefits or (b) victims of DWP's execrable 'Work Capability Assessment.
In particular the benefits system just does not deal humanely with Mental Health issues.
Others struggle to make work marry with caring responsibility whether for children or relatives.
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