Unemployed bus passes

[Alex C. 10]

I am not knocking the pass itself, it's a good idea in theory, but just the automatic response of the original poster that it's gone up in price to cover the pension pass. Always the first group to get the blame for ANYTHING it seems.

I know I'm not in sheffield now, (I left in 85 because there werent any jobs around then that I wanted to do), but pensioners aren't totally exclusive to Sheffield, so this is why I am responding.

You have, so far as I recall, always been able to claim travelling expenses to go for an interview but you still had to get there first and then claim it back, so this way is better, and it's only gone up by a pound and,unless it's a weekly one, just being used as and when you are job hunting, then it's great.

Don't get me wrong, I think that giving OAPs free bus travel is a good idea however its not quite blaming - its probably true that the prices have gone up due to the OAPs free travel. Again, I see nothing wrong with it