Re: Should unemployment benefit be a soft loan
Especially if they are older.(which is reflected in the payment formulae.)
The job finding process is so long in this country that it can sometimes take 3 months from beginning to end with no guarantee of the job.
If you find out that you need to retrain (due to health, age, obsolete knowledge, language etc.), you need a long lead time before even applying for jobs.
Recent changes have made it much stricter and less generous than in past times.
Regarding the lying on the beach comment - I know of someone who went back to Spain (their original homeland) for a couple of weeks and was either shopped or discovered by airline information. She was penalised for three months benefits. The RAV do not let you take holidays for the first 6 months of unemployment (so I was told) and they ensure you are too busy to do this anyway. I was told that i could only go to the UK from Friday night until early Sunday morning, otherwise I would lose the extra days.
I suppose dossing around Switzerland would be easier for those who wanted to. You could easily get back for an emergency meeting.
My wife has seasonal work and the RAV is good at smoothing the financial edges of this type of work during lean periods when the employment contact is forcibly reduced. Construction and agricultural workers also use this top up facility to enable them to keep families in basics during winter when it is impossible to work.
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