{"id":82138,"date":"2009-05-15T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/letter-benefit-negligence\/"},"modified":"2018-03-07T20:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:03:43","slug":"letter-benefit-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/letter-benefit-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Benefit negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe inadequacy of the \u00a364.30 weekly jobseeker’s allowance (\u00a350.95 for the under-25s), noted by Paul Nicolson (Letters, 11 May) is a modern phenomenon. When unemployment benefit started in 1912 it was 7 shillings a week – about 22% of average male earnings in manufacturing. The percentage fluctuated over the succeeding decades, but by 1979 the benefit rate was still about 21% of average earnings (manual and non-manual, male and female). By 2008, however, as a result of the policy of tying benefits to the price index while real earnings increased, the renamed jobseeker’s allowance had fallen to an all-time low of 10.5% of average earnings. And while, in the past, means-tested allowances raised unemployed income to a higher minimum level, the jobseeker’s allowance rates are now the same, whether means-tested or not.Of course, average earnings have grown but so has the relative deprivation of the unemployed. This is not a policy justified by the need to maintain work incentives. It is just a dreadful record of neglect by governments since 1979.Jonathan BradshawUniversity of YorkTony LynesLondon Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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