Benefits system not working for me

LETTER: In December last year I was forced to sign on for Jobseeker's Allowance for the first time since I left school in 1969.

Everything went fine for two weeks, then it was suspended.

The reason given was because I had enrolled on a part-time course with a private training company, which I paid for myself.

The job centre informed me that because I still had the last part of the course to do and they classed it as a full-time course I was not entitled to benefits.

At the same time I had applied for housing benefit this was also accepted but after one payment was stopped.

It's taken Telford & Wrekin Council since January, after repeated phone calls and e-mails, to let me know this week that they have suspended the benefits because of a change in my income.

Yes it has changed, from a pittance to nothing. Just another example of our sharing caring benefits system.

Anyone who needs help might as well forget it unless they are prepared to make false claims or have just arrived in Britain. Am I bitter? Yes.

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