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What is this country coming to???

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Range Rover Blues:
To be a carer on the state system you have to be unemployed but not claiming benifit, I looked into claiming the carer's allowance to look after my dad and quite honestly it was too much grief for the little it paid.

Boggert:

--- Quote from: stuvy on March 12, 2008, 10:55:58 ---more than likely 'non passport holders' if you know what i mean ;)

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To be fair, I suspect not, from experience it the Brits that tend to pull the scams not the foreign workers.

Did anyone see the program about Peterborough....??

The Eastern European workers, all working hard with out complaint. Then they spoke to the British guy coming out of the Job centre and said I can get you a job for £7 per hour picking butter nut or something like that. “No ta” he said I would prefer to be on the dole...

That’s why this country has gone to pot, work shy lazy numpties we are paying for not foreign workers. I think asylum seekers should be able work, at least they could put something into the pot instead of a hand out.

Rich_P:

--- Quote from: Boggert on March 13, 2008, 07:51:02 ---That’s why this country has gone to pot, work shy lazy numpties we are paying for not foreign workers. I think asylum seekers should be able work, at least they could put something into the pot instead of a hand out.


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But does such money actually stay in the UK or does it get sent back home?  :doh:

hobbit:
I have to care for my wife and now my father, I saw briefly what some of the carers were like before his second wife passed away from alzhiemers, they did a good job, mostly, although when the agency sent their bill through the system  I got a copy of it, the agency was claiming for longer than the actual visits were

When checking this back the times the carers were sending in were correct, but they were rounding up by +30 mins in some cases, bit of a stink about it

The worst of it was my father had to pay part of this as he was/is in his 80's

I work harder now, flitting between two addresses, than I ever have done when in the army, or driving and fitting on trucks

Can't drink in case I have to drive during the night, and time away is very limited, he's now 87 still very sharp but not very mobile, hardly anyone visits, most of these people who do this caring work are very good people, sometimes doing a difficult job, for not a lot of money, in unsocialbe hours, they have the greatest respect from me, but a few like the ones mentioned above, and some other reportings that have been made over the past 12 months I remember seeing on the news, a group of people can screw things up, but unfortunately this is something that happens across a lot of jobs

It all goes with the fabric of this country, a long slippery slide down the pan, people take the money but dont care until they get caught

Boggert:

--- Quote from: Rich_P on March 13, 2008, 09:21:54 ---
--- Quote from: Boggert on March 13, 2008, 07:51:02 ---That’s why this country has gone to pot, work shy lazy numpties we are paying for not foreign workers. I think asylum seekers should be able work, at least they could put something into the pot instead of a hand out.


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But does such money actually stay in the UK or does it get sent back home?  :doh:

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I'm not bothered, they are filling a gap and doing jobs some brits will not do.

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