Benefits Street

[Cuntybollocks]

I'm offering advice to a fellow "forumite". I fail to see how that is wasting time.

However if a mod from the site to wishes correct me this I would be only too glad to apologize.

Anyway, Why are you getting your Y-fronts in a twist, anybody would think I was talking about you........

Chill.

[Cuntybollocks]

Wishes to correct me on this. !oops!

[bernard72]

How many working families have ?200 pound a week to spend after tax.
It's a fucking fortune.
? 10400 pound a year. If they cannot live on that maybe they should be taught how to budget.

[David Johnson]

I don't think you understand a basic point that UK benefits such as child benefits, child tax credits are paid to people in work. The majority of people in the London and south east who get housing benefit are actually in work. Without these benefits, many workers would not be able to do their job. In addition there are employed only benefits such as working tax credit

They are not unemployed only benefits. It is obviously not a fortune to have ?200 to heat, clothe, feed, entertain a family of one adult and two children as well as do stuff like replacing white goods etc etc.

As for ?200 after tax being a fucking fortune for a family that is nonsense. The tax free allowance from April is ?10K.

The problem is not too high benefits unless you are keen to see kids suffer, but the poverty wages that millions get in this country which the taxpayer via the government has to subsidise.

[max_tranmere]

Being on Benefit and having kids is hardly a money spinner, but I suppose it means there is some kind of security in that the State will keep giving Benefits to the parent, and paying their rent, from when the kid is born up until they're 16 or 18 and the Benefits won't stop until then. Other people on Benefit, those on the dole and a lot of people who are 'on the sick', are always under threat these days of having the money stopped and appear to worry from one month to the next. Iain Duncan Smith is gunning for them in a way his Labour predecessor was not.

[David Johnson]

This is incorrect. Once the youngest child starts attending school, a single mum has to sign on to look for work and will be expected to apply for jobs etc.

Secondly once again I think you have not grasped the point that child benefit and child tax credits as well as housing benefit is also paid to people in work.

[Milk Tray Man]

David Johnson wrote:

> Once the youngest child starts attending
> school, a single mum has to sign on to look for work and will
> be expected to apply for jobs etc.


And rightly so IMO.

[Dave Wells]

They could easily do a far more interesting prog about a much larger group of parasites that hang about in Abingdon St, SW1A - they cost the taxpayer millions more than these unfortunates !

[David Johnson]

Agree entirely!

[Fred]

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