Jobseeker's Benefit and going abroad

[joe sod]

That is simply not true. It is just a bullshit story somebody put in circulation to besmear foreigners. Unfortunately people keep repeating the same lie over and over again.

You didn't disprove anything, the figures from your own article showed that the numbers signing mysteriously reduced during the Ash cloud in 2010. In any case the social welfare department have stuck to collecting at post office and reverted back to it immediately after covid. So obviously this proves that having to collect in person cuts out alot of fraud. Its not xenophobia either as irish people would take advantage in the exact same way if they could. Its simply the case that if you make it to easy and convenient it increases the potential for fraud

 

[Allpartied]

You didn't disprove anything, the figures from your own article showed that the numbers signing mysteriously reduced during the Ash cloud in 2010. In any case the social welfare department have stuck to collecting at post office and reverted back to it immediately after covid. So obviously this proves that having to collect in person cuts out alot of fraud. Its not xenophobia either as irish people would take advantage in the exact same way if they could. Its simply the case that if you make it to easy and convenient it increases the potential for fraud

But why not just pay into a bank account and sign on once a week. You still have to present yourself, identify yourself and physically declare yourself available for work. The cash handout is a massive nuisance, asecurity risk and liable to mistakes in over payments or under payments.
The UK is even more paranoid about welfare " spongers" and they pay directly to a bank account.

 

[elcato]

But why not just pay into a bank account and sign on once a week.

Back in 90s it was decided to redistribute the labour, quite rightly in my opinion, to looking for people who were claiming without being entitled to. The first obvious thing was to, rather than have staff checking signatures all day for 2 days a week, changed to 2 days a month.