To absolutely despise job centre staff?

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I receive universal credit to top me up. I am a masters student in a vocational subject that will 100 percent result in a job, I work ten - twelve hours a week, sometimes more and am a single mum. I am trying my best. Over summer I work as often as I can also and make enough that the job centre aren't on my back as I'm earning enough.

Just received a notification that I must attend a work review on Thursday. Number 1 - I have uni that day. Number 2 - what more do they actually want me to do? I am in uni 3 days out the week then the other 2 I am studying. Saturday I work.

I am beyond frustrated. I always find the staff there to be rude and obnoxious and look down their nose at me, even though im probably more qualified than them.

Well yes...I can't go to uni. Also can I just add, I have had to pay all the fees myself which has totalled over 14,000 pounds. So it's not as if I haven't put my hand in my pocket, all of my savings have gone on this.

Yeah, as you were.

I couldn’t have worked whilst doing UG. It was 37 hours a week contact time, plus I did the expected 20 hours extra study because I wanted a First. I got one.

People need to check their privilege. Not all of us get to go to Uni at 18.

It's a professional course with full time hours work placements that you don't get paid for . OP isn't sitting at home twiddling her thumbs.

Bring back Gordon Brown who understood the plight of single working mothers, with shite dads who pay fuck all
Long live working tax credits!

Private message me and I will give you my mobile FaceTime and WhatsApp me and see if I am the same person

Yep, my STEM Masters had a stipulation about not working whilst doing it. Plenty of them do.

It’s amazing that people on MN bang on about people on low income should work harder and better themselves, but when they try and do just that they get, ‘’You should pay yourself’’ and ‘’the state is doing you a favour’’ Do fuck off!!

What do people want? They want the poor to do better but begrudge the support to enable that!? Do people not consider the OP will pay back into the system? It beggars belief.

@WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps last comment from me was for you

@Scurryfunge12 well put some people in here need to get off their high horses and learn the word humility

No thanks!

Quite - that's often the first thing people with money worries get asked here, 'have you thought of training for a better job?'

I think people should be grateful to get financial support from the government tbh. Not look down at the staff and act better than them.

I’m not suggesting she’s not working. But it’s a luxury to study. It’s not available to everyone because it costs a lot and you have to work out how you can support your family whilst you do it. I had no idea you could ask for benefits whilst doing this. Because you are choosing not to work and earn.

Unbelievable. You are doing studying social work when you have such a dreadful attitude towards fellow professionals who are also providing a service to society. What comes around, goes around. Good luck with your clients and caseload, OP :-)

So now I’m getting gas lighted on here classy eh

i had a very successful career and paid millions in tax. I fell upon hard times when my son and dad died and I was only 31

i had a breakdown and lost everything

I now get universal credit and pip

yes our system is broke

other countries pay based on what you have earned and paid in

here everyone is in the same boat and as a single person I get very little help and by no means enough to live off

I will never pay tax again

@Butitsnotfunnyisititsserious

Yes, that’s right, the peasants should be eternally grateful and forever indebted for any scrap of support they might receive whilst being treated like shit, after all the are sub human and it’s their fault they are in that position even though they are trying to better themselves. They can’t win, it seems!

@Andypandy799 what countries pay based on what they've paid in?

@FuzzyPuffling that offer was not for you see post above but by all means I can send you a photo holding up a piece of paper with todays date on. I did pay millions in tax it’s all on the internet if you want proof

@Meadowbreeze

Very toxic attitudes by those on here, would like to know your own personal situation and what benefits or taxes your paying or claiming before you attack people

Do that

My son receives DLA and I receive CA.

He’s in school full time and I don’t work. I use that time to have a breather, to get things done so I’m not drowning, sometimes sleep a little bit.

Technically I could work while he’s at school but for the foreseeable I’m not. Better for him and better for me. I’m not bothered if people think it’s wrong. Those people will be the ones who don’t have a disabled child and don’t have the additional mental, emotional and physical load which that brings. And if they do have a disabled child, then you do you.

You normally get a loan , grants and work on top. OP is entitled to extra support because she has children vast majority of students do not. The sacrifice will benefit the taxpayer as after her course she will have a professional registration and a better paying job. She will in an occupation where there is a shortage. She will end paying lots more tax so the sacrifice of the 2.5 years makes sense to the taxpayer.