I'm never going back to the job centre

Ansel Wallace from Wolverhampton will no longer be signing on.

He's 53 and has been unemployed for three months.

"They make you feel less than human at the job centre," he says.

"It's too stressful. They make you feel like a burden. They put up barriers so that once you're over 50 you're made permanently redundant. I'm never going back."

Mr Wallace is among the growing numbers of jobless over 50s who feel they are being let down by the system.

More and more of the 50 year old jobless workers are feeling once they get laid off they are not able to find a job. This puts a lot of stress on these people knowing that there is a good chance that you are not going to be able to find a job because of the amount of opening in that career.