Fully agree with you, Stephanie, people on benefits have too often been abused with the wording: spongers.
Of-course no-one on this Forum has ever said it
I must disagree with some other posts further up, as the staff at the jobcentre were extremely friendly and polite.
The same applies to the staff at Skills Training in Dover to whom I was referred by the Jobcentre, and who passed me on to Pitman Training to do IT courses.
But the Government keeps telling us all that things will get worse, that unemployment will go up and income will come down. For the next 13 years, they said, things will be really hard.
Perhaps working tax credits, child benefits and JSA will be abolished and exchanged with a weekly parcel of canned food and 2 loafs of bread.
