UK unemployment to rise for eighth months

what about the over 60's unemployed for over 6months and don't get JS and told to go on Pension credit but because they have saved for their pensions they have too much and can't claim that which means they can't get help with the Dentist or reduction in Council tax or any other benefit and don't get counted in the unemployment figures

so show us the figures for Women now working 60 - 61 then 60 - 62 & onwards including men when women reach 65 remember these people would have retired therefore leaving vacancies for younger people

Just consider how the government is lying to us about jobs in Britain:
Lie #1. "Discouraged workers — unemployed workers who give up looking for jobs — are not really unemployed."
Even a third grader would know that's laughable. If jobs are so hard to find that people are abandoning the search, that's a sign things are actually WORSE, right?
Yes, but that's not how the government counts its headline unemployment number. Every time more people get discouraged, the government's jobless number improves!

This monumental event will plunge vast numbers of families into the nightmare of poverty, homelessness and hunger. In the worst case scenario, you will see soaring crime, the confiscation of property, the suspension of civil rights, and even martial law enforcement by the U K military ...
But while the vast majority of British will suffer, a select handful will use this crisis to Make Money

Just Heard on a radio debate that the unofficial rate of Unemployment is closer to 6.3 Million!!!!!

Lie #2. "Unemployed workers seeking full-time jobs who are forced to accept minimum-wage or lower paying part-time jobs are also not unemployed."
In other words, based on the government's definition ...
If you're a laid-off policewoman delivering newspapers for two hours a day, or ...
If you're a former sales manager, greeting shoppers at ASDA on weekends ...
You're not counted among the jobless!
But if you think that's strange, consider this:
These lies are so enormous and egregious, the government has tried to address the outrage by quietly publishing another unemployment rate
This number is never headlined in the press. And the party in power never mentions it.
Why not? Because it's one of the ugliest and worst-kept secrets of our time.
I'm talking about an official government number that does include some of the part-time and discouraged workers, and that reveals an outrageously high U K. unemployment Figure 6.3 Million

The world is coming to an end WW3 is coming and its all the politicians and bankers faults.

Yahoo usually removes the posting on the true number of unemployed in the UK.

when i was 21 -25 years old i couldnt find a job as all the jobs turn me down for work when i went to their interviews, so i went back to education as that the only thing i was accepted in...

Footsie back in the red!!!!!MOODY..... FITCH THE SHITY BOYS... all in it together, they love volatility, they make money out of it, sucking poor savers who are earning #$%$ rates from the banks into the market and taking there money....They are not real capitalists....they are now called Capo's (Corrupt organisations using extortion and theft from the ordinary Tax payer)

Why are unemployment figures so high? Can anyone tell me?

When did the blooming obvious become news worthy...pay people off, run companies in to the ground unemployment goes up...doh obvious!

Who cares about unemployment?Certainly not the 1%.Robots or Chinese children working for a penny an hour will do.
The stock markets are nearing all-time highs.

Eight million people 'economically inactive'
More than eight million people of working age - more than a fifth of the total - are not in paid employment, official figures show.
By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
3:23PM GMT 17 Feb 2010

The number of people who are neither in work nor seeking employment reached 8.08 million in the last three months of last year, the highest on record.
In all, 21.3 per cent of working-age adults are now "economically inactive", a category that includes students, the long-term sick, unpaid carers and those who retire early.
Much of the in increase came from people opting to study instead of working or seeking work.
However, 78,000 of the inactive were recorded as “discouraged” workers, people who have simply given up because they do not believe there are any jobs available.
The “discouraged” total rose by 57.9 per cent from 2008. A total of 5.75 million inactive people do not want a job.
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The figures were published by the Office for National Statistics, which also disclosed the number of people claiming jobseekers’ allowance at its highest since the month before Labour come to power in 13 years ago.
The number claiming employment-related benefits rose 23,500 to 1.64 million in January, the highest since April 1997.
ONS figures also showed a slight fall in unemployment, which was 2.46 million in the last quarter of 2009. That was 3,000 down on the previous three months, but economists expect the total to rise again as temporary Christmas jobs are lost.
The data showed that there were a total of 28.91 million people in employment in the last quarter. However, the total conceals millions of people who are not working full-time.
Full time employment was 21.22 million, down by 37,000. At the same time, the number of people working part-time increased by 25,000 on the quarter to reach 7.67 million.
The ONS said there were 1.04 million employees and self-employed people working part-time because they could not find a full-time job, the highest figure on record.
Earlier this week, an ONS study suggested that as many as 2.8 million workers are “underemployed,” either not working as many hours as they want or doing jobs below the level of their qualifications.
Yvette Cooper, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said unemployment was lower than had been feared this time last year, something she said vindicated the Government’s policies.
But she conceded: “We know things are going to be tough for a while and we expect further increases in unemployment before the summer.”
Theresa May, the Conservative shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “It’s alarming that more and more people are giving up looking for a job altogether with record levels of economic inactivity.
“One in five people of working age you now meet won’t be employed and 5 million people in this country have never worked.

At last people have began to realise that nobody owes them a living.Its hard looking after yourself with government aid to the unemployed due to drop year after year if you don't try to get a skill that's in demand god help you because there's nobody else that will. No money in the government bank and the way things are going no one will lend us anymore.Remember also that most charities are given money by government this will be stopping soon.

If they got rid of the thousands of immigrants there they problem solved, but then the british people are to blame who take them into there employment.

Do you think that Britain could be full?

During the Thatcher era, it was accepted to be much cheaper to let people claim benefits than to pay them for an artificial non-job in the public sector. To guarantee them a job in the voluntary sector will encourage that sector to become much more wasteful in the use of resources. The negative impact on One's health and well-being is more likely to come from their lifestyles than being a result of being cast off as scrap after one year.

Kick all the damn foreigners out and then its fixed! Simple!

The official stats are only for people on JSA, and that. Think of the people that have savings over the maximum 16,000 and CANNOT get help from the goverment. Im in a lose lose situation as I am overqualfied and no help from goverment for training courses, im problably not the only one..