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€560 million of the rescue month before a visitor was (ANTI.BA sent round to "re-assess' my {PLOY other industries? by anvone else?" , and "Do Liverpool BEING unemployed is frustrating and humiliating for everyone. but women are often subject to even more harassment in an attempi by the government to tie them both ideologically and economically to the home.
Under the present rules, married women are excluded from certain benefits and it is therefore assumed that women are dependent on their husbands, or in my case on the man who happened to live in the same house!
After a temporary job lasting only two weeks I was made to wait almost Benefit. The questions asked claim for Supplementary included, "Has this man proposed to you and it so, why did vou refuse?" « Have you any children, by this man or neighbours treat you as i married couple?"
The man who shared the same house (he las since left happers 10 be a mena who needed a emporary place to live.
I was lucky in that received all the back-dated money owing to me. but this "co-habitation rule is used in many cases is an attack on the right of women to claim beneit independently. and is often 'proved' on the basis of very dubious evidence.
The unemployed must organise to fight against Tory attacks on jobs and wages. This can be done through Unemployed Workers' Unions which seek to unite the employed with the unemployed as a basis on which to take up all issues relating to the working class, including those specifically relating to women.
KAREN HARRIS, Leicester Unemployed Workers' Union. comrades can contribute articles, reviews, and opinions? ANDY DIXON. H-BLOCK!•