Comments on: Minister On Supplemental Unemployment Benefit

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:12:06 +0000

I missed the part where Senator Hayward said that this was only temporary

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:39:47 +0000

The “people’s pension fund” (the Government Employees pension fund) has been bankrupt for decades. That is not news. Sir John Swan told us that we did not have enough money to fund civil service pensions back in the 1990s. We are not “robbing” it, we are simply making a bad position worse by ignoring the issue.

By: Concerned Bermudian

Concerned Bermudian — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 19:32:37 +0000

Minister jason Hayward,
How can you say this is not financial assistance when you have to fill out all the paperwork for financial assistance just to get approved the only thing that is missing is the job search papers to fill out….

This is disappointing
Yes it’s a good thing to help the unemployed but why through financial assistance and why is it necessary to fill out all of financial assistance’s paper work if this is has nothing to do with financial assistance…why do we have to fill out financial assistance papers?

This supplementary unemployment assistance should have it’s own papers to fill out. Not 7 papers to fill out of financial assistance’s papers this is ridiculous

Something about this whole supplementary unemployment assistance and going through financial assistance is not making any sense to me.. so basically those who apply are basically applying for financial assistance with no hassle or will it be a hassle since this is financial assistance we are dealing with.

And also for everyone who is applying, there is no guarantee that they will be eligible and or be approved… since like I said before this is financial assistance we are dealing with

Or is it just me who sees or feels like something just ain’t rite about this?

Signed
Suspicious

By: Hey

Hey — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 19:23:10 +0000

No we don’t. This is not what was promised, this is a stop gap to garner votes for the election, it will then disappear, as we don’t have the money to pay for it. Can’t even page govt workers without robbing the peoples pension fund of money.

By: Hey

Hey — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:00:22 +0000

This is just for the election. You do know that.

By: Warrior

Warrior — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:57:20 +0000

I agree

By: Joe Bloggs

Joe Bloggs — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 11:04:33 +0000

And there we have it. Bermuda now has the “welfare” reforms that the PLP has always promised.

By: Politics

Politics — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:25:09 +0000

Another ******* handout?! I know of 3 people who are sitting back and taking a check from Government with no worries in the world! They moved in with their parents and smoke weed that we helped pay for!

Thanks PLP!

Any assistance should require the recipient to at least do work for tax payers!!!

By: wahoo's mother

wahoo's mother — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:14:58 +0000

charity work?! basically give them jobs?? .. its a pandemic dumb &&%$

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 02:04:31 +0000

Here is a suggestion since the road crews can’t keep up with all of the overgrown trees and weeds on the side of the roads get person who are on unemployment assistance to join in and assist in cleaning up the road sides. With this program at least government is getting some value for money being spent out. It’s quite simple no work no assistance.

By: wahoo

wahoo — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:29:33 +0000

Perhaps we could create work for these people so that they can feel productive even if it is something as simple as helping with our charities or trimming trees. Maybe they have certain skill sets that we can utilize so that our money is well spent and they maintain some dignity.