Steady on...you’ll have the bleeding heart lefties out in force insisting that welfare recipients shouldn’t be humiliated in such a manner
Both my husband (age 74) and myself (64) are sensorily disabled since birth and had undertaken special schooling in different locations. My husband, despite being semi-illiterate, managed to obtain a 7-year apprenticeship, and obtained a trade, working for 46 years, for three employers. During his time of employment, he had been treated abominably by some of the supervisors and work colleagues due to his disability. Yet he persevered to work and save hard enough, along with myself, to purchase a house, car and pay for utilities, insurance (house, motor, health, life, etc.) When seeking a mortgage for our house, he was turned down by a bank, who assumed that he would not manage to keep up mortgage repayments due to his disability, despite a letter of reference from his employer, certifying his permanency of his job and employment history. Fortunately, my own building society approved our application for the mortgage - that was 40 years ago! Anyway, to cut the story short, we paid our dues and contributed to Irish society. When my husband reached his retirement age of 65, his employer's pension scheme folded up, leaving a very small pension for him, despite our appeal to the Pension Board. He draws the state pension. Then last year, I had to retire 2 years early - from public service after 20 years - for health reasons. All I receive is 97 euros fortnightly, plus illness benefit of 193 euros. Thankfully, the mortgage had been paid off many years ago. It was yesterday when I saw the television report displaying a young woman - lone parent - with five children, including a new-born child - granted a new house.
Why should, as Brendan Burgress said in his opening post on this thread, those who worked for over 40 years receive only 10 euros on contributory State pension more than those who would not make an effort to support oneself during his/her "working" (or should it be "welfare") years?
The problem is that many people see nothing wrong with living off their fellow citizens for their entire lives.Excellent post and well done to you and your husband. It's a sad state of affairs alright but at least you can both look in the mirror and feel good about yourselves for having done things the right way. It's a pity more people are not like you!
I'd far rather see the state set up some form of "work for your pay" arrangement - almost everyone could do something, be it support / admin services for various government departments, or helping maintain the public parks etc. etc.
Are you satisfied with the system as it currently stands?The problem with that is, if an unemployed architect is made to maintain public parks ( I'm assuming litter warden, sweeping, flowerbed maintenance? Etc), then technically s/he is at work and should be paid the appropriate rate for the job. Ditto admin / support services.
I'm not sure what a first year park-keeper is paid, but assuming it's at least €10 p h, that's 18 hours work. Which is fine, until you have too many park-keepers, and the ones who are full-time employed are made redundant and end up, erm, unemployed! - Perhaps they could go work in an architects office?
Hi TBS,
There is a solution to every problem, assuming you actually want the problem solved
Are you satisfied with the system as it currently stands?
The problem with that is, if an unemployed architect is made to maintain public parks ( I'm assuming litter warden, sweeping, flowerbed maintenance? Etc), then technically s/he is at work and should be paid the appropriate rate for the job. Ditto admin / support services.
I'm not sure what a first year park-keeper is paid, but assuming it's at least €10 p h, that's 18 hours work. Which is fine, until you have too many park-keepers, and the ones who are full-time employed are made redundant and end up, erm, unemployed! - Perhaps they could go work in an architects office?
Hi TBS,
There is a solution to every problem, assuming you actually want the problem solved
Remind me what the problem is? .....
Are you satisfied with the system as it currently stands?
What system?
Are you happy with the way in which we provide unemployment benefits to those out of work.I dont have a problem with providing unemployment benefits to those out of work.
Broadly speaking yes.Are you happy with the way in which we provide unemployment benefits to those out of work.
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