i have a friend that went to austrilia, he as been on the dole for 12 years now. I feel that there should be a new law for people that are on the dole for more that 6 months they should be made to do community service, i cant believe he could afford to go to oz on dole money. its cus he works in a bad as well and does not delacre the income. no wonder how our taxes are going up so much. how many other people are doing this. what should i do should i tell. i dont think anything will be done anyway.
137043
I would turn him in just for making me pay more taxes for his as*.
52261
i was in the military and i would change the pay. you have no idea of all the crap they have to go through, and a lot of them don't get to see their families for a long time. it builds a lot of character and let's you discover your limits, but it just seems like the government takes advantage of their age and inexperience by not paying enough money.
433780
I myself live in TN & have seen these offenders on the I-40 doing trash pick up.  All you see is a blurry face after reading the back of their uniforms.  I think their should be more patrol, but then how much do you want the taxes to go up to fund this?  The best bet for these people are to not do it, saving their lives as well as others.
325006
The morning after the release of the interim report of Senator Jocelyn Newman's Reference Group on Welfare Reform (2000 [a]) Prime Minister Howard said "People want the needy looked after but they don't want an explosion in welfare spending." (P&NB 29/3/2000. 9 am News). Patrick McClure, CEO of Mission Australia and the head of the Reference Group, in an interview on Life Matters a few minutes later was asked about sanctions that might apply to income support applicants if they did not 'participate' in the Government's plans to extend mutual obligations provisions applying to unemployed people to single parents and disability pensioners claimed that there was only one reference to sanctions in the 75 page report. This comment was presumably made in an attempt to assure a frightened recipient population they were not about to lose their benefits. Those Life Matters listeners who had watched the 7.30 Report two days previously would have put McClure's comments alongside the fact that in the previous 12 months Centrelink had issued 200,000 notices of breach to social security recipients in the previous year. Anyone who bothered to read the Reference Group's interim report would have found scattered throughout pages 51-61 references to "compelled participation", "requirements to participate", "sanctions...to ensure compliance", "explicit direction", ruling out "open choice" in relation to how people participated and to "mutual obligation".\n\nMcClure claimed the idea of extending mutual obligation through participation arose from the Reform Group's review of New Zealand's income support system and of Tony Blair's labour market initiatives. This ignores the fact that in New Zealand the Clarke Labour Alliance Government, supported by the Greens, announced shortly after gaining office its intention to revisit in 2000 the entire National Party Government 'compelled activity' programs for income support recipients. On the 9th. March the relevant New Zealand Minister, Steve Maharey ended\n\nwork-testing for people on invalids benefits. He says the evaluation of the trial held last year showed the policy was 'completely useless'. He says that people with disabilities want to work and he prefers to put money into positive programmes that remove barriers to their employment.\n\nThe Blair Government acknowledged its indebtedness to the Keating Government's Working Nation document (1994), in relation to unemployed beneficiaries there has, since the 1947 Social Security legislation, been a work testing eligibility requirement, and work relief programs (the Susso) during the 1930's demanded actual work for sustenance prior to the supply of unemployment relief. The Howard Government's 'work for the dole' program is a latter day Susso scheme.
208300
I think it would definitely help if people repaid the welfare system once they could afford to(voluntarily), what people should remember is that they're not paying it back to help the government, they're paying it back to help those in need who are now in a situation that they were once in themselves. I think that it's appalling that only men have to pay back welfare, in Australia it's a little more even.
129632
You need to take this to federal Court/  That will be  the only  way  you can make them  change  /  For  what  i see there  seen to be  lots  of people  with the  same  problem/  Look  for  a  local reporter   or  write to   the  big  News  shows 60 minutes  20/ 20 .  Be  short   but  very specific  and  most  likely  they  will do a story  about  it /  Be a  Hero  don't  stop
485542
Boy am i with you look at the question i asked a couple of hours ago!!!!\n\nI'm sick to the back teeth of handing all our hard earned wages over to them.\n\nWe will be taxed the "AIR" we breathe before long, and i don't think that is to far retched!!!\n\n\nI am with you all the way, good luck to you and yours.\n\nAnd this is to the people "Who have obviously have a few quid in their pocket" \nIt's not that we don't expect to pay tax, stop being so jumped up!!!\n\nWe are just fed up of getting screwed over????
189878
It's a damn shame that, this is what it has come to in parts of the country. I work a manual labor job, granted I don't make 5 dollars an hour.. so, I would have to disagree there will always be people to take those jobs.. some sort of jobs. People that really want to provide the best they can for themselves or their families. My boss hired a Mexican lady once, she was legal.. married to a American man. She seemed nice.. BUT... she could NOT read english, barely write it and speak it. I asked her if she was going to learn english... and she told me straight out no!! I was taken aback by this.. as I have never encountered this before but I was pissed. If you want to be legal and come here and work,fine for now I guess!(who knows what the government will do w/amnesty) NOT live off the system.. NOT live in a shitty house with 6 kids and have a brand spanking new car in the garage! I don't know about anyone else but refusing to speak english is a pure insult!! (Sorry, I know part of my response is in the wrong catagory.) I don't think they will get a higher education.. some may and a lot more may not. They just want the money.. but shame on some of our employers for hiring them. It's such a double-edged sword.. you feel bad for them on a level but angry with them on another level. I guess time will tell.
330392
contact the rep from Australia he may be more help then I can be. Or look up in your local phonebook for U S government  they should be also more help
631558
Well she should definately go to citizen advice bureau, she'll get good advice from them.\nIf she isn't entitled to the extra she should take it from the childs allowance, clothes allowance etc. She should tell him they have to last longer as she can't afford to buy now because HE has got himself excluded and costing her extra money. She must teach him to take responsibility for his own actions. If he wants to re-gain this clothes allowance, or pocket money or whatever she takes, then he has to get a job to pay her.\nHe is old enough to work, my eldest wanted extra money as I struggle. She got a job to buy herself what I couldn't afford and it was the encouragement for three of my others too. They love their independance and the thought of earning for themselves too. They also appreciate things more now because THEY HAD TO WORK FOR IT!!!!!\nHe has to learn to grow up, she is the perfect teacher to give him that push!\nGive her my wishes, and God Bless YOU for being a thoughtful friend to seek advice.
161827
It has always been my experience that people who dont want to pay are not worth working for.Senior citizens that want a challenge can get plenty of those by volunteering for the Red Cross or any one of a thousand charity orgs.That's where you can find most of them right now.
311035
Sorry, but I work for my own money. And thanks to the levels of freedom in this country, I can do what I like with it. And that includes giving it away to your version of an unworthy cause.\n\nHave you ever talked to a homeless person? Or some teenager on the street begging for quarters? Do you know what kind of shame and embarassment these people have to endure every time they have to look someone in the eyes and ask 'Any spare change mister?'\n\nAnd despite popular belief, homeless people, and kids living on the street are not just too lazy to get a job, they are not just too stubborn to do what they are told and go back home to live with their parents (for the kids). Not everyone who is homeless chooses to be homeless. Have you ever heard a 6 year old kid in an elementary grade class telling his teacher that he wants to grow up to be a homeless person, begging on the street to earn a living? I never have, and I doubt that anyone else has either. People don't want to be poor, they don't want to be homeless, they don't want to go to food banks, soup kitchens or beg for change either. But it's something that these people have to do in order to earn a living. Most of them are NOT alcoholics or drug dependant either.\n\nSo, get a job, go on welfare or something? Yeah, nice idea. But a little known fact about social assistance is that you have to already have an address to get some money. How do you pay rent with no money?? And how do you apply for a job when you have no address, no telephone for them to reach you? It's hard enough just to stay clean, considering that you don't have access to a shower or anything like that. Have you ever wanted to work with someone that smelled like old garbage? Probably not.\n\nHave you ever thought of what you might do if both of your parents were killed in a car accident? What if you had no other family to go live with? At 16 years old, could you fend for yourself? Or what if your parents didn't die. What if instead, they split up and neither of them wanted you? Then your mother moves across the country and leaves you with your 'dad'. He gets sick of your shitty attitude almost right away and kicks you out on the street because you're too much trouble to deal with. Without ever having graduated from high school, what do you do now?\n\nAside from that, there are plenty of homeless people that have become criminalized just to prevent themselves from freezing to death in the winter. I actually met a man who would commit a petty crime every year around October just so that he would have a warm bed and daily meals inside a prison for the winter months. But he wasn't a criminal. He did those things because he didn't have access to any other way to keep himself alive. He didn't know how to make the government programs work for him rather than against him. And with a criminal record, it became near impossible for him to get any kind of job, even one paying minimum wage.\n\nWith many cities making anti-panhandling legislation, even asking someone for spare change has become a criminal act. Do you realize that it is a crime to be poor? People treat you like dirt almost everywhere you go, and you develop a nasty suspicion that every time the police are around, they are there to do something to hurt you. Besides, you really think that it makes sense to give someone a fine for pan-handling when the reason they do it is that they already have no money?? What kind of sense does that make?\n\nAs for fining people that give poor people money, that is also an unfair idea. It's not against the law for you to give your money to the Heart & Stroke Foundation is it? Who has the right to say what I should consider worthy of my hard-earned money more than I do?? Hopefully nobody!\n\nAnd take some free advice: take an afternoon, walk down the streets where some homeless guy has had the nerve to bother you looking for a handout and take a minute to TALK TO
566412
I don't think it would be much different in NY than anywhere else in the US.  If she files for it, she can file for it back until he started that job.  As long as she can prove he worked there and was making more money back then. Which is typically easy to do, (they normally just check employment records).  It's up to her and what she writes down for when she wants the increase to start. That doesn't mean that the courts will give it to her...but she has that option.
182051
You do have a good point. The system sucks. If you do pay into it you do not qualify for any assistance. But if you do not work and have 5 baby's form 5 different daddy's and your only 21 yep I think that their is a problem. Or come over here and have your baby so he/she can be a American Citizen has to stop.
671217
I have a big problem with this.  I have always worked hard and hate that my money is going to lazy people.  I think that the only way someone should get help is if they have a disablility.  Not just people wanting to live on welfare and medicaid!!!  All those that answer this question with "I am proud to be on Medicaid"        --------------------GO GET A JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
46612
If you have moved more than I like 50 miles away you can, you have to submit a bank statement or utilty bill showing your new address, if not, the best you can do is go in, say you wanna quit and pay the year off.  I know, its a load of nonsense they dont tell you when you sign up. Try bringing in homeless with your free passes, maybe they will let u quit.
438906
Great idea.. sue the government for diverting tax dollars to non-citizens through medicaid, food stamps, welfare, public schools.  It may be the only way to address the problem.  Until we take away all these reasons to invade this country, the problem will get worse.  Their effect on wages (just look at the unchanged minimum) has been devastating.