Beneficiaries should work for their benefits?

On average, everyone agrees with significant nonconsensus between 284 voters.

Reasons To Disagree

This is a contradiction in terms.

If beneficiaries are forced to work,they should be paid at least the minimum wage. otherwise they are being exploited.

beneficaries do work everyday they look after the future there children will be here when we are gone is it not enuf

How does one work if they are severely ill? However even if one has certain handicaps there is always some time during the week to do a little voluntary work

Unscrupulous employers would love it if beneficiaries had to work for their payments.

Reasons To Agree

Welfare is a privilige, not a right. It needs to be treated as such. Something given for nothing has no value

At least contribute abck to the taxpaying contributors in some way instead of demanding the dole as of right

welfare is a basic human right, it enables food, warmth and shelter, and a nation who denyies it to their citizens or a citizen who denies it for their fellows is one without scruples a heart or compassion - work for the benei in community work by all means but once in paid employment minimum wage or better

Assuming it doesnt become a free source of cheap labour without offering any help to find long term viable work for the beneficiary.

Emphatically YES - where possible. Otherwise they all too swiftly get used to a life of leisure and even begin to believe it is their "right"!

work could be providing assistance at the local school. Assisting in what are traditionally the volunteer roles. A lot of people work for no money at all. The reason to work for the dole is to improve skills and to keep skills up to date. Also to have a reason to get out of bed in the morning as well as maintaining a level of self worth.

BUT limited to a max of 10 hours per week helping volunteer organisations.

Agree somewhat or get all the fit and able into full time work at $18.40 an hour, for a 40 hour week in exchange for jobs such as mowing lawns, keeping gardens, beautification work in the public or charity sector i.e walkways and planting out along major roads and the railway lines, keeping shorelines cleans, and getting rid of mangroves, conversation work and work council's want to do but can't afford to, and storm related recovery work. At 240000 abled beneficaries to equates to 9.9 billion, inaddition this would be topped up to $19 an hour if they complete one hour of supervised exercise - this would cut health funding as people who exercise are generally healthier. Any one who doesn't show up for at least 38 hours in any given week would only get $15 an hour. Idle hands make mischief so if they are working this should offset crime.

Even if you can't do paid work , volunteer somewhere , help a little old lady do her grocery shopping , babysit someone's kids for a couple hours , clean a elderly persons home come on guys you have to contribute to society some how !