Comments on: Unemployed People CAN Get a Break http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/03/03/discounts-for-unemployed-people/ The upside of the downturn Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Adam Coulter http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/03/03/discounts-for-unemployed-people/comment-page-1/#comment-547 Adam Coulter Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:34:16 +0000 http://www.recessionwire.com/?p=2565#comment-547 Holiday companies in the UK are doing something similar for people who've been made redundant – either giving them discounts or offering free insurance. The banks are meant to be deferring mortgage payments, but that strikes me as nothing different from offering a mortgage holiday – which you end up paying for after the break anyway. It seems to me that all the banks that are receiving huge amounts of taxpayers money to prop them up should offer deferred mortgage payments with no penalty. Holiday companies in the UK are doing something similar for people who’ve been made redundant – either giving them discounts or offering free insurance. The banks are meant to be deferring mortgage payments, but that strikes me as nothing different from offering a mortgage holiday – which you end up paying for after the break anyway. It seems to me that all the banks that are receiving huge amounts of taxpayers money to prop them up should offer deferred mortgage payments with no penalty.

]]> By: Sara Clemence http://www.recessionwire.com/2009/03/03/discounts-for-unemployed-people/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Sara Clemence Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:01:42 +0000 http://www.recessionwire.com/?p=2565#comment-458 I neglected to include the Jet Blue deal. To encourage travel, the airline will refund your airfare if you lose your job before a trip. http://www.thestreet.com/story/10464400/1/jetblue-to-refund-ticket-if-you-lose-job.html I neglected to include the Jet Blue deal. To encourage travel, the airline will refund your airfare if you lose your job before a trip.

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