Twelve months ago Tiffany Austin was at rock bottom. The single mother had no job, no prospects and little hope. Yet today she earns £16,000 a year as a bank teller, bursts with confidence and takes pride in the fact that she supports herself and her two sons without government handouts.
She says it’s a ‘miraculous change of fortune’ – and it is precisely the sort of result David Cameron hopes to replicate across Britain with the blitz on benefits dependency that he announced in The Mail on Sunday last week.
Among his proposals, the Prime Minister wants to axe the dole money of the long-term unemployed who do little to find work – or force them into community work. His controversial proposals are similar to the ‘workfare’ scheme in America that 24-year-old Tiffany credits with turning her life around.
‘Workfare gave me my pride and confidence back,’ she says. Under the Wisconsin Works (W-2) initiative for low-income parents, she received £416 a month, food stamps and health care while she undertook otherwise unpaid work experience.
Tiffany also received guidance in putting together a CV and improving her interview technique to help her secure a job.
‘After six months I applied for the job at the bank and got it,’ she says. ‘Now I am on no benefits at all and for the first time in my life I can see a clear career path and have hope for the future. Once you start working, whether it is paid or not, your mindset changes. You have the discipline to get up in the morning.’
W-2 was introduced in 1996 and within five years, the number of families taking handouts had dropped by 95 per cent in some parts of the state.
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Lmfao…… Are we supposed to fall for this bollox?????
Sadly we are supposed to and thats a fact.
Let me re-write this article….
Tiffany has no disability, no chronic illness nor pain.
At 24yrs young, Tiffany has a very supportive family whom take and bring her kids home to and from school (costing her nothing).
Tiffany hated working for free, but, was forced to and luckily the job lay open for her to keep at the end.
Tiffany is a rare case of success and serves a purpose for Government to say “one size fits all and, if one person can be a bank teller? Then everyone on benefits can be…..”
…nuff said?… No!, because…..
We have not only had fraud and theft within the companies whom are pushing folk to work in these schemes..
We have also had reports of statistics and such exposing the actual fact of….
1. No jobs laying open
2. A4e not succeeding keeping anyone on after 13weeks
3. Enforced labour…
Good God Cameron, we are not so dumb as u damn well think.
One swallow a summer doth not make.
Exactly! The Government believe by this one story the world will say. “hell everyones a winner”.
Ironically, the one story theyd use to kill us all of an actual benefit fraudster being found……..?
There is silence, why? Because its all bullshit! Fraud never existed! Its a facist agenda and no truth is within any of it!
Hear hear you guys. The Daily Flail are one of High Pimp Camoron’s prostitute papers. Just wait until Flail readers are affected by his slavery policies. Knowing how outraged they get at anything they think is remotely unfair to them, it should get very interesting then!!
Keep strong everyone.
There is another insidious ploy behind all this…If you are in the position of not having any income at all!!!, you will have to beg for a job, how do you do that and get a job you may ask, simple, you will HAVE to undercut people already in employment, say to employers you will do that job cheaper then the person already employed by them. More profit for the employers, in otherwords more money for the people who support/give to the three main parties. Its all working to plan for the rich.
I wonder what Tiffany Austin will think when her employer calls her into the office and say’s…Tiffany, I will have to let you go!, someone has just come in and said they will do your job for £2,000 a year less then I’m paying you, well Tiffany if you want to keep your job are you going to undercut their offer to me ?. And so it goes on and on and on, you get the picture folks….
And that’s unregulated capitalism for you folks!
but still emmas pulling pay for the slave labour market so when is her firm going to loose her contracts as of fraud as these firms mostly torys mates on fabulous wages get the boot and then the jcp can do the job it was meant to do not eye candy like this girl who most probly was pulled out of a hat and put into job for advertising these so called find me a job firms who bwtter than jcp to do this without paying fantastic wages for peoples bodys to these firms jeff3
The way to get people off benefits is to give them employment, proper and meaningful work. Not offer unpaid positions or jobs that require workers to draw ‘in work’ benefit. Getting people off benefits also needs this government to face it’s responsabilities and stop blaming everyone else for it’s failure/s.