UK Employment up!

[Troll]

wtf???

UK unemployment continues to fall


UK unemployment fell by 13,000 between September and November to stand at 1.65 million, government figures show.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance in December fell by 6,400 to 807,700.

[DiscoStu]

wtf???

They're all now on disablilty living allowance.

HTH

[KathyWoolfe]

UK unemployment continues to fall


UK unemployment fell by 13,000 between September and November to stand at 1.65 million, government figures show.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance in December fell by 6,400 to 807,700.

This jobseekers allowance figure includes thiose claiming contributions-based allowances. This is only paid for the first 6 months of unemployment after which, if you claim, you don't get paid anything. This sometimes results in people not claiming JSA as there's little or no point in it seeing as there's no real benefit in doing so.

[DodgyAgent]

unemployment always falls in the run up to Christmas. have you checked the stats against this?

[KathyWoolfe]

Aside from the NI contribution that is...

yes, but how many people are going to take the trouble to travel x number of miles, wait around in a queue for about an hour and then travel back again, all for a pittance of a contribution to a pittance of a state pension they won't collect for decades?

[gordonbrown]

These figures surprise some of you don't they. Don't believe everything you read in the Daily Mail.