Budget 2020, Another tenner or is it twenty

Stop smoking would be this correspondents advice.

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

What another uninspiring budget, doing nothing for the middle classes that FG pretend to represent. Nothing of significance for housing /renting front either.

Did they announce any significant increase in third level spending or will they let it continue to be under resourced?

Why do people expect something every budget?

That’s the nonsense that got us into trouble in the past.

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Still wondering why they have a double dole at Christmas when most businesses in retail and warehousing cant hire staff fast enough in December.

Spoken like someone who never had to be stuck in the system which is full of Catch 22s and gives no incentive for part time work.

If you go into the dole office in the beginning of December and say you got a part time job it would royally screw up your payments and you'd be running from pillar to post for nothing.

The full time dole is paid in advance while the part time one is paid in arrears. So you start work the first week, maybe you get paid on that Friday, maybe not til next friday, maybe not til the end of the month. But if you pick up your dole the first week you start, you'll get a letter eventually to say you were overpaid. And you might need that money for not just your normal bills but commuting and uniform costs to get to your job.

Then you'll have a delay while they change your payments to Xs and Os. And you'll be given forms to fill out your hours for the next week, which must be handed in by Wednesday to get your check for any days you didn't have work. This has to be signed by a manager at work and handed in to the dole office every week. If they dont have the roster up for next week by Wednesday you're screwed. Regardless, you'll still need to go into the dole office once and into the post office once each week in addition to your shifts, and possibly go into work on a day off too to get the form signed.

Oh, and if you're on Jobpath, part time work doesn't get you off the scheme, so you can continue to travel to those appointments as well. But don't forget you might earn up to 20 euro extra a week for this for less than two months, sure it's a pure gravy train!

Even i a minimum wage job theyll dock you about 32 euros a shift regardless of its length. Who do you think is going to get the shortest shifts, the temp or permanent staff? You could easily be down money for a day worked, and if you work more than 3, you get nothing from the dole. You could do 4 4 hour shifts at min wage and that would be all your income under this system.

You'll probably be expected to work Christmas Eve, then, when it's all over, you'll be shown the door. Sent back to the dole office, which won't open until January, and will be backlogged, so have fun starting the year with all your money gone and facing a delay to get back on the dole.

You'll be lucky to get payments back by the 3rd week of January. But one last thing, along with your first payment you'll get s letter explaining you were overpaid by about 100 euro that first week you started, how would you like to pay that back, in one go or in installments?

Can't you just be grateful that you don't have to rely on a bonus for Christmas and deal with this stupid system? Do you think if the bonus was cancelled, the savings would go back into your wages? Keep in mind that it was cancelled before, and it went to the bank bailouts.

Seriously, if you ever had to be unemployed you wouldn't begrudge people this, which also goes to those disabled, and goes right back into the economy. It all gets spent, probably in the same businesses you smug worker bees are employed by. Ask any retailer with a brain if they'd want the bonus cancelled at Christmas.

NIMAN wrote: »

So people are queueing at petrol stations tonight to fill up before price increases at midnight.

All to save maybe 2 euro?

Fair play to them, I hope they keep the engines running while they are queuing. I’m here reading boards by the light of my plastic and rubber bonfire in the back garden XR and the climate loons can suck a fat one

Mr. teddywinkles wrote: »

But who do you vote for. We seem to be locked into these type of policies no matter whoes in government.

We have only had FG and FF as the main government parties in power. It's time for the other parties to be given a chance, FF and FG have each destroyed the country in different ways in recent times. Other parties need to be given a vote at the expense of FF and FG in the next election.

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

USC anyone? The temporary measure that’s still here. Why the fook it’s called universal is anyone’s guess.

FF again.