Well, my idea is a 25 hour working week.
At 6.50 an hour that's £162.50 a week.
I suppose it doesn't have to be 5 days a week, 3 would still work. Might even be better.
Payable fortnightly like Jobseekers.
£195 a fortnight minus tax so say around £150 a fortnight. Which isn't much more than Jobseekers is now. Plus one of those days could be class based. Learning to write CV's, Basic computer skills, refreshers on literacy and numeracy, book keeping, working on team building exercises or other crap they could pad a CV out with. Making them more employable and less likely to return to unemployment.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 12:59, Reply)