What hope for Generation Sicknote?

STRESS is the modern-day bad back for ‘Generation Sicknote’. I blame the UK for no longer having any worthwhile industry to give life purpose and make people want to go to work. A lot of them today just exist. Social media can also help to undermine those with poor mojo and no discipline.

GRAHAM HILL, Coventry.

THE fact that someone has ADHD or various other psychological conditions need not exclude them from working.

One member of my family is 36 and has never worked a day in their life but can manage to do most things outside of work. I believe the main factors behind the current rise in the numbers of the workshy are that the system is too easy to manipulate, and that young people don’t want to work if they can get more money sitting at home. The answer is: cut benefits to a nominal amount and make claimants report each day for manual work, perhaps with councils and charities. If they fail to turn up, cut their benefits.

We have become too soft and generous and this has to stop.

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IT IS reported that high numbers of young people are unemployed because of mental health issues. This is caused by social media spreading a false, idealised view of the world and what is achievable in it. Children cannot be children, teenagers can never mature, perfection must be now.

J. GUTTERIDGE, Reading, Berks.

I HAVE a radical answer to the ‘Generation Sicknote’ problem (Mail). It is called occupational therapy and involves a concept called work. Instead of giving people benefits, we give them a thing called wages.

COLIN STEEL, Sudbury, Suffolk. THE best way to get unemployed 18 to 24-year-olds into work would be, after six months on Jobseeker’s Allowance, cancel it, just like in the 1960s. JOHN CHENERY, Acle, Norfolk.