Unemployed diabetic man afraid of catching Covid in the post office

Well and good. And when someone shows up for work one morning to find the place has been put into liquidation and they've lost their job then they don't suddenly get employed an hour later like magic.

If you're a farmhand or black-market cash-in-hand worker then maybe. In the rest of the world a CV, interview, second interview, group stage, reference-checking phase and unpaid trial before a one-year probationary period are standard practice.

Unfortunately that doesn't chime with your version of reality.

Farm hands are well educated, highly trained experts. Most earn good wages as their skills are in demand. The rest of your post is rubbish also

Who said anything about JSA, @Geuze? Jobseekers' allowance (JSA) is just one element of what's being discussed here.

Disability part 1: every day a bright-minded and qualified person who's been a wheelchair since birth seeks office work and gets told that they should either be sucking on a straw in a nursing home or hauling nets on a fishing trawler. No middle-ground. Ask any family with a limited-ability husband/wife/son/daughter about this. It's like a Winning Streak wheel where instead of money you get either an ignorant bigot or a compassionate human being.

Let's prefer the latter, @Geuze@Deeec@[Deleted User]

Disability example: office work is often appropriate for someone with a good mind and upper body mobility: phones and computers. Plastering gable walls and teaching PE in secondary school is usually not very easy for someone who drinks through a straw. Still, they very often end up being badgered to do Intreo courses that their bodies aren't physically capable of and if they fall out of that system the whole family suffer.

Carers part 1: by definitiion a kid who's been mopping their parents' vomit away at the age of 12 can't get a carer's payment. That happens at 18. Does it magically kick in on their 18th birthday? Of course not. It depends on where they are and whose desk the form lands on. There seems to be some kind of assumption that there's someone looking over these kids but very often there is not. Very easy sneer at the poor though. Especially when they develop addictions. My dad was actually a heroin addict, but I never had to clean up his puke. Do let me know about the puke situation @Geuze@Deeec@[Deleted User]?

Carers part 2: you're separated and your mother and father are injured in a crash. No carers' allowance for you: your ex has a good job and it's assessed on joint income. You haven't spoken since the whole thing fell apart, and that's a private matter but let's just say it wasn't your fault. You have no support, financially or otherwise. They have a new partner and your kids are being neglected.

No carers' allowance for you because you're still married in law. You looked into the HSE home support packages but you still don't get any help. You are now a carer for two your parents and your two children. There is not a scrap of food in the house, and you've rang and emailed every single person you can think of.

All of the above are legally prohibited from accessing any carer or disability payment.

But someone on Boards.ie says "bollocks, I pulled pints in the GAA club for £1 an hour in 1993 and something something work something something and then I did something and it was hard and so everyone on the dole is a buncha lazy cunce so if I can do it so can they".

That's just fantasy, and it's deliberately spread to corrode communities and suck in money.

Please don't fall for it.

If you want to argue that the system is unfit for purpose then fire away: it dates from Famine times. A million dead and a million emigrated, we were all taught.

But if you want to spread a load of hate and lies against everyone in receipt of a state payment then that says far more about yourself than it does about the system, @Geuze @Deeec @[Deleted User]

Let me know what elements you dispute, so.