Working on DBP

Working for DBP

I thought you already had to do this when your youngest child turned 6 and you were on the DBP??? Maybe I thought wrong???

I hope they don't try and bring back that green thing when if you were on the Unemployment benefit you have to work 20 for an extra $20 a week, that was so stupid.

i just did an essay on the labour led government and this whole 'making people work for their benefit' goes back such a long way and personally i think its good in a way but i dont like it! not that im on bene but i think its going to cause a bit of panic

I work , think if i didnt id get too bored after a while anyway !

cuppatea wrote: I personally think that unless you are disabled, ill etc then you should work to get the money instead of getting a free ride. They could have everyone on DPB out painting over tagging or picking up litter, I'm sure it would encourage most to go and get a better job. Better still bring back work houses.

Yeah fine if you are on the DBP and your children are at school but not when you have a baby.

For people on the UB yes they should be out there doing something.

cuppatea wrote: I personally think that unless you are disabled, ill etc then you should work to get the money instead of getting a free ride. They could have everyone on DPB out painting over tagging or picking up litter, I'm sure it would encourage most to go and get a better job. Better still bring back work houses.

Umm I'm on the DPB so does that mean I'm getting a free ride?


I agree that once your child is in school you should get off your butt & be back working or at least studying .... If it wasn't for the DPB I wouldn't be able to start studying from home full-time next year AND continue to raise my son at the same time.

I want to give him a good life & be able to support him (financially speaking), I also want to bond with him & teach him all I can (and make the most of) these first few years and not just go chucking him into a daycare while I go out and slave away in some minimum wage job only to earn the same amount as I would if I was to stay home with him on dpb. By the time he's at Kindy/school I DO intend to be working full time or at least finishing off my studies so I can work in my chosen career. I'd be bored sh*tless if I was to stay at home by myself lol

I do agree though that there shouldn't be the unemployment benefit, unless disabled, ill or a valid reason why one cannot work etc these people should be out trying to find jobs - THEY are the ones getting a free ride. Not mothers on the DPB who actually give two stuffs about their childrem & are trying to give them a good start.

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 Nothing new this was their last policy when they were in government in 1996. I don't believe they should be making all people on the invalids and sickness benefits get work. My DH was on th sickness benefit for 5 months last year. He could leave the house for 4 of those months without me, there is no way he could of worked.

The DPB is for families who don't work (there are some couples on it), but is usually for solo mums.

The UB is for people who don't work but can - those are the ones that should be out there getting a job.

Yep i was thinking more UB, I didn't realise that DPB is a seperate category of benefits.

I don't see why couples can be on it though, only one needs to be at home full time, so either one should work or they should both work part time. I'm in two minds about the amount of help single mums get, on one hand women that find themselves on their own do need the helping hand and should be able to make the choice to be at home with their child, but on the other lots of hardworking couples both have to work cos they can't afford to live any other way and then there are those women that just get knocked up so they don't have to work and can get a free ride.

The paying for single mums to study annoys me as well, I want to retrain but I have to take out a student loan or pay for it myself. I am having to go the student loan route as we don't have any extra money, we won't get any help with childcare etc, how is that fair? Yes people need a helping hand to get in a better situation it just annoys me that if you are married or in a relationship and you have made sure you are fairly financially secure before having children that you get nothing.

Me and DH would be better off if we just got divorced and then I dated him instead.

Me and my friend have this idea that you should only be on the UB for 6 months of the year and that is it.

Thats crap. Maybe you should get some sort of extra help, but are you saying that i should get nothing and struggle to live and feed my daughter with just one income? Are you saying if you were a single mother you wouldnt want any help with anything?

And are you also saying that if i just worked and studied and got no help id be able to live comfortably?

sh*t, I would love to not have to rely on a benefit to help me live/ pay for my study.

Realistically its not gonna happen.

 

I disagree with you both Fleury and cuppatea and will choose to believe you are making those statements because you don't have the full information about how the system works. I'm also not just defending the scheme because I was the recipient of the money

Let me explain here that you can only receive the study grant for undergrad study if you haven't received a qualification in the last 5 years... and that it doesn't cover all fees/childcare/transport/associated study costs. It is a set amount per year and you can choose to have a certain amount on your fees and then some each week to pay for aforementioned study costs etc

But anyway, it is an investment in getting women OFF the DPB and keeping them off. And while it may cost an extra couple of thousand for a couple of years, it is long term saving money for the government/tax payers by allowing solo parents to get qualified and return to the workforce sooner.

I think as far as making judgements on who should or shouldn't receive money or who should have waited to have children and not got themselves in that situation in the first place, it is very easy to judge standing back but if you consider each and every single mum who has been able to use the DPB to get themselves to a better place in what is usually quite a crappy situation, then I doubt you'd be able to easily deny any one of them.

I do completely agree that it is hard work for couples and I feel really terrible for those who are trying to study and having to really struggle to do so. I am totally for a universal student allowance to be available to make it easier.