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No wonder there are so many people unemployed?!

  • 28-08-2012 1:36am
    #1
    Diamond_Ninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭


    This isn't really a question, or even really a discussion topic, I just feel like I have to share my situation as I find it all so ridiculous, quite a long back story I apologise!

    So I was on Jobseekers Allowance for a year up until last October when I got a place on a Fás course, during the 9 months that the course ran for, my circumstances changed, this meant that at the end of my course, I would have to be re-assessed by the Social Welfare before re-commencing my Jobseekers Allowance. I finished my course on June 29th and to this day my claim still hasn't been processed, I have been struggling with money but that's not what this post is about. Shortly after finishing my course I was offered a JobBridge internship due to start 2 weeks after the interview, on the 13th of July, I was given a form that the Social Welfare need to fill in so that I could start my internship, I went in and was told that they couldn't fill in my form as my claim was still being processed but they would try to speed it up. 3 weeks later and I still haven't been able to start my internship, I have been in to and phoned the social welfare pretty much everyday and I get the same answers all of the time.

    It's at the stage now where I'm worried that I may not be able to take this internship after all as there are 8 interns and everyone else started 3 weeks ago. I'm totally frustrated and I can't help but wonder why there is such surprise that there are so many people unemployed, I understand that there are a lot of people signing on all of the time and people that just aren't arsed looking for work of any kind, but what about those of us who are arsed? I would have though that they would be only too glad to get people onto internships and out to work!


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    [Deleted User]
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    Diamond_Ninja wrote: »
    I would have though that they would be only too glad to get people onto internships and out to work!

    Ah-hah-hah-hah-hah.

    You'd think, wouldn't you?

    Take me. I wanted to go to college. I signed up to a suitable course, I passed the interview and got on it. My local authority approved my mature student grant. I was in college for a week when I found out I wasn't entitled to Back to Education allowance because I was three days short of the requirement of being signed on. Had the college course started on the Monday after as opposed to the Tuesday before, I would have been fine. But it wasn't to be. I got on to my TD's and I got a letter from the Minister of Education (Mary Coughlan) saying there was nothing to be done about it. Before that I spoke to the woman in charge of the BTEA scheme in Limerick, and her advice was to sign on for another year and don't take a full time job if I want the BTEA. How ridiculous is that? Drain off te system for another year instead of bettering myself going to college?

    I am just about to finish a FAS course (LTI - Local training initiative) and have found a CE scheme I really want to get on to as I really want to get into community work and get some experience. The catch this time? Even though I am more or less finished my LTI (I'm on work experience now) I can't leave the LTI early. And after my LTI finishes, I have to sign on for a week before attempting to get on the CE scheme.

    So to sum up. The CE scheme could use me now, but I am in receipt of a payment til mid Sept so can't start the CE scheme til after this payment finishes, and I sign on for a minimum of a week

    Yeah, the system works :rolleyes:


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