Why does the benefit system keep you in the system and not working?
Being newly unemployed I was hoping to start up by myself but feel trapped by the system...In a months time I will start to have my mortgage paid by the benefit system but I wish to go self employed as a sole trader.
From day 1 I have to be earning enough to cover my mortgage so if work is slow in coming in as I expect until a reputation is built up locally then I wont be able to pay my mortgage. Where is the incentive in working then?
There is no help at all through the transition period so I feel that I am loosing out by wanting to work.
Being newly unemployed I was hoping to start up by myself but feel trapped by the system...In a months time I will start to have my mortgage paid by the benefit system but I wish to go self employed as a sole trader.
From day 1 I have to be earning enough to cover my mortgage so if work is slow in coming in as I expect until a reputation is built up locally then I wont be able to pay my mortgage. Where is the incentive in working then?
There is no help at all through the transition period so I feel that I am loosing out by wanting to work.