Ive been asked to apply for 5 jobs a week

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there is literally not one job I can find today

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Who asked you to apply for jobs?

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The job centre advisor probably.

On topic: they can’t take away or penalise you if there aren’t jobs - the economy for jobs in England atm is known to be bad

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My employment specialist my GP referred me to.

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It’s not the job centre, my GP referred me to someone who helps me look.

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Are you allowed to use indeed?

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I use indeed charity jobs, nhs jobs, civil service jobs, Reed ,

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Have you volunteered before? Just wondering…

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Sorry, but sod that. Take it your on Universal Credit? Get on the sick with your Dx and get a voluntary job under the “therapeutic earnings” rule.

My experience is the buggers love to sanction you.

Sorry - i maybe barking up the wrong tree, i will go away lol.

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I forgot, are you on disability now @anon25873142?
If not, I would seriously consider going on disability and if you can manage also volunteer somewhere

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I volunteered many many years ago, but I’ve been asked to look for paid employment recently.

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I had no idea I could do this. Yes I am on uc and standard rate pip

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I’m on PIP which is £409 for disability. and uc is for everyone I get £805 which sickness added to it. If I work I can still claim pip but lose the uc.

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I mean if I was looking for full-time work, there are loads of jobs out there that I can apply to. But I can only manage part-time. When I first started talking to her, she did say to me I need to change my thinking and apply full-time, but it just doesn’t work for me I get sick. I don’t think she appreciates how sick I get. If I could change my thinking I would, but I can’t.

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Doesn’t seem like she knows what what’s dealing with at all. Is this mandatory?

I had similar a few years ago, it proved useless but I said it was useless so my care co-ordinator took me off of it

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No this is not mandatory, I can quit at any point. But I feel the pressure, she also needs to tick boxes right? So she pushes me, and it doesn’t feel all that comfortable. I also feel extremely guilty not having a job.

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I just asked if my local autism charity has any volunteer roles, fingers crossed they get back to me,.

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Sounds good mate :+1:

Best of Luck.

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I think volunteering could be a great outcome, since you’ve struggled with working for so long.

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I tried volunteering once. It didn’t work out…I tried…

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