Diary Wednesday 15th February 2017

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Good to see my latest Mylot payment has arrived in my Paypal account. It actually went through yesterday but I only just noticed. I went to the job club early as it directly clashed with my Welfare hearing as my advisor absurdly thinks going to tell him how my job search is going is more important than actually doing the more organized job search activity itself. The job club was relaxed and went well though with no positive job leads surfacing. The next part of my day was the one I dreaded as I had to go to see my benefits advisor. He has now started demanding that I log the exact timings of my job search activity to be able to assess if I am job seeking 36 hours a week. It was clear that in saturating him with every step taken meant that he wasn’t going to add up the figures so he was happy just to see that they were on the screen on my job search log for him. He suggested I consider work with KFC, though I have no retail experience and at 55 I associate such work with school leavers,. He then gave me a mandatory job lead to follow, with a group helping people with physical / mental disabilities get support. This sounded good, but I was confident I had heard of the group, ATOS before and not in a positive light. It proved to be directly linked to the welfare organization, and geared up largely to crushing disability allowances for the disabled by dismissing them as fit for work. The organization has come under considerable criticism, and overall I’d rather poke my own eyes out with spaghetti than serve such a vile organization, but I’ll have to go through the farce of applying or my own benefits could be compromised. Arthur Chappell