Hi, this my first entry in this blog to encourage people who are unemployed, looking for work and not signing on at the Local Job Centre to go and sign on at their local Job Centre. 

Why bother to sign on if you do not receive Job Seekers Allowance and you don’t need further national insurance contributions?   Well if you don’t sign on you are not classed as jobless and the government see this statistic as an accomplishment and publish falling jobless rates, which justifies their policies and validates there failure to act earnestly on unemployment.  In the first quarter of this year Britain’s jobless total fell, however the claimant count increased, which suggests that unemployed people are falling below the radar, by not signing on, for a number of reasons other than finding gainful paid employment.

A recent article in the Guardian comments “City economists are encouraged that Britain's unemployment rate fell to 7.7% in the first three months of 2011, with the jobless total falling to 2.46m. But the claimant count increased by 12,400 in April, bolstering fears that unemployment may be heading upwards”.  This appears to support the notion that less people are signing on when they no longer qualify for related benefit, allowing the serving government to view the nation’s employment / unemployment through rose coloured statistics.