18th February 2012, 05:31 PM
You can't claim benefits if you are working for more than 16 hours a week. You would probably be able to get local housing allowance(housing benefit) but that still leaves bills, food and transport to sort out.
Quite a few companies are taking advantage of the new workfair scheme to employ people full time with the state paying them job seekers allowance. The placements are compulsory and so are pretty much one step above indentured servitude. Not the sort of thing that is acceptable tbh.
Quote:isn't there some dodgy deal that companies providing internships can do with the benefits agencies so that interns are still entitled to benefits?
Quite a few companies are taking advantage of the new workfair scheme to employ people full time with the state paying them job seekers allowance. The placements are compulsory and so are pretty much one step above indentured servitude. Not the sort of thing that is acceptable tbh.