Should i go on the dole

Cookies on GOV. UK We use some essential cookies to make this website work. Accept additional cookies Reject additional cookies View cookies. Hide this message. Home Benefits Benefits and financial support if you're looking for work. Jobseeker's Allowance JSA. This guide is also available in Welsh Cymraeg. Print entire guide. Brexit Check what you need to do. Explore the topic Benefits and financial support if you're looking for work Finding a job. Since the coronavirus hit, many of these people, being denied unemployment benefits or the JobKeeper wage subsidy , have been told to go back home, and have done so.

Is that the problem? Many people who seek part-time work do so because they have other commitments that the work must be fitted around — full-time studies, for example, or young children. Maybe that extra shift Morrison refers to would have required people to pay more for childcare.

Some older people would have stopped working for fear of catching the disease. Many people have the attitude that anyone who really wants a job can find one. Illustration: Matt Davidson Credit:. Between February and May, the number of people on the JobSeeker payment formerly Newstart and the youth allowance rose by more than 90 per cent to 1.

So there are about 14 jobseekers for every vacancy. But this great fear of temporarily increased unemployment benefits being a great disincentive to work is a big issue in the United States and an argument Republicans have used to refuse to renew the supplement.

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