I was on the dole for a couple
of months after leaving Uni.

Now the problem was that I lived in Manchester and my boyfriend had been offered a job in Derby. So of he went to Derby leaving me living in our rented flat on my own.

Now from talking to friends I found that the dole office would expect his wages to cover my rent too and they wouldn't give me housing benefit. The advice was to say we had split up.

Worried about this I headed to the dole office to sign on for the first time.

When I got to see the signing on person I was surprised to see it was my landlord. Happily he didn't mind letting his flat to dole scum and made sure I got the housing benefit I needed.

I was the envy of my fellow recently ex students that my sign on time was in the afternoon.
Surely if everyones sleep pattern reverts to nocturnal while on the dole then this must be our natural sleep pattern.



While signing on I worked, voluntarily, for a theatre company. Many of the other people involved where signing on also.
One actor told me that he had a days work doing a advert voice over.
The next week he had gone to the dole office to sign on.
"Have you done any work in the last week"
"Yes"
"was it more than 16 hours"
"No"
"OK then sign here"

Didn't seem to worry them that he had been paid a grand. Only that he had not worked for more than 16 hours.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 5 Apr 2009, 22:19, Reply)