If you could vote on the future of benefits, how would you vote?

[andygardener]

so employing these extra bods in the first place would cost how much :huh:plus corner shops would know the local people and wouldnt give them to a stranger

 

We already have trading standards people in place that could do it.

[fake]

We already have trading standards people in place that could do it.

 

The trading Standards institution was eroded many years ago (lost my job because of it) and now relies mainly on on-line advice only.

[Mister M]

Ok. It takes away their right to drink, gamble or spend it on anything other than the basics like food, heating, clothes and a roof over their head.

I dont see the problem:huh:

When I was out of work I felt marginalised and humiliated, having to go shopping with vouchers would just make those reliant on benefits feel even worse about their situation.

[andygardener]

The trading Standards institution was eroded many years ago (lost my job because of it) and now relies mainly on on-line advice only.

 

I'm going on freinds who work in retail getting pretty regular TP's from trading standards. Maybe Sheffield has far more than the rest of the country.

[Chun Li]

When I was out of work I felt marginalised and humiliated, having to go shopping with vouchers would just make those reliant on benefits feel even worse about their situation.

 

I dont agree. I think it will give them security.

[Mister M]

I dont agree. I think it will give them security.

 

How will it give them security?

[Chun Li]

How will it give them security?

 

If it can only be used for food, bills and clothing then they will have food in the cupboards clothes on their backs and electricity in the meter.

[fake]

I dont agree. I think it will give them security.

 

How will it give them more security than cash?

 

Edit, just pipped to the post by Mister M.

 

So how will they get the credit for the electricity in the meter?

[Mister M]

If it can only be used for food, bills and clothing then they will have food in the cupboards clothes on their backs and electricity in the meter.

 

But they can use cash that everybody else uses - why change that? Unless you want to make the experience of being reliant on state benefits as unpleasant and humiliating as possible.

 

I was lucky that I was only unemployed for a relatively short while. I could imagine the experience of constantly feeling marginalised and humiliated would make the person feel less motivated and less inclined to feel a citizen in society who has the potential to get a job.

 

Besides which, as has already been posted, the scheme was tried for those seeking asylum and it didn't work then.

[Stan Tamudo]

When I was out of work I felt marginalised and humiliated, having to go shopping with vouchers would just make those reliant on benefits feel even worse about their situation.

 

I agree, I get the impression that Chun li and other like minded people would go down to Morrisons, Asda or Tesco on voucher day so they could get behind people in the queue who have to use them as a means of getting a huge hard on.