UNEMPLOYED workers who take advantage of an Assembly Government-backed training initiative aimed at combating the recession are likely to find their benefits cut, it has been revealed. Last night, serious concern was expressed about the lack of joined-up government that sees Welsh workers penalised for joining courses under the ReAct scheme... <snip> But even though workers have had their applications to join ReAct courses authorised by Careers Wales, some have been told that if they take up the offer of a place, they will find themselves disqualified from receiving state benefits.
Last night, serious concern was expressed about the lack of joined-up government that sees Welsh workers penalised for joining courses under the ReAct scheme...
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But even though workers have had their applications to join ReAct courses authorised by Careers Wales, some have been told that if they take up the offer of a place, they will find themselves disqualified from receiving state benefits.
It's total madness, but what do you expect of a government that has abandoned all pretence of giving a damn about anybody on less that £500kpa keep to the Fen Causeway
Now there is this scheme called the travel to interview scheme, which will pay your costs in attending interviews. so I go straight from the interview, to the jobcentre, talk to the people there about this who say that I actually have to go to my own office to claim, but it should be no problem.
I get back the next day, fill the forms in, only to get a phone call a couple of days later saying that I don't qualify seeing as I havent handed in the form ahead of the time of the interview. On the first appeal I was told that as the rail strike had been cancelled after i'd travelled, I should have stayed and visited my home office instead of travelling a day early.
the second appeal is working its way slowly through the system as we speak. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
As in Thomas More's Utopia, where the crapper is made of gold, there's a lot of backward that needs to be integrated into the coming JustSociety. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
