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The BBC News site have this article about a family living on benefits and the proposed cap.
Two things occur to me:
The taxpayer is paying for a lot of lager and tobacco This is dreadful journalism. The article goes nowhere and challenges neither the ...
Started by SurreyBear on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at moneysavingexpert):
When my ex left here, he took his 35k salary with him there is a whole family line....
Oh no - another benefits bashing thread!
Mind you 26 grand a year is an Enormous Amount!!! Some people seem to scoop massively from benefits.
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Just read this article, can't believe it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16812185
Even as someone who's against the government's current capping on benefits and resents the "benefit claimants are scroungers" attitude going round right now, what a total ...
Started by James2001 on
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by 18 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at digitalspy):
Still waiting on decision from job centre about benefits and have been living off family tax credits' benefit claiming family but if they do, my opinion of the BBC has gone down considerably off in january
i can tell you its....
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BBC News - Family life on benefits
I can see how this thread will unravel. But even a well balanced person will struggle to fully justify some of the weekly expenses this token 'family on benefits' makes.
Quote: : 'I go out once a week, on a Friday night...
Started by wemorgan on
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by 12 people.
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Clothing for school uniforms etc
then they wouldnt be able to spend their benefits on Sky+ HD I get that claim benefits have seven children....
Ie vouchers for food.
Why cant benefits be given out using a voucher system.
It makes me sick.
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And internet
and sky
and mobiles
and 200 cigs
and lager
and 2 failed relationships
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16812185
Says Ray: "The market for my skills dried up ten years ago - there's a total lack of work in my area of expertise
The family receive...
Started by Shotoflight on
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by 13 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at housepricecrash):
This post has been.
That I am, even I am very hard pressed to dredge up any sympathy for this family.
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From here :
Unemployed father-of-seven Raymond (not his real name) and his family rent a former council house on a social housing estate in north Wales. They do not own a car or take a regular annual holiday.
Raymond, a former educational software writer...
Started by j.mills on
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by 12 people.
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Afraid I'm not oozing....
We need to ensure that this family has an income of around the present level with one months notice.
He'd retain the child-based benefits that make up the bulk of the household income, so I guess incentive problem.
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Http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16812185
So the cap is probably unfair on a lot of people claiming benefits. But is this case really a great example? The Mrs can't work on medical grounds, fair enough.
But I don't buy what the bloke says. If demand for his...
Started by Sharklaar on
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by 20 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at mikedolbear):
Even the BBC report about a family on benefits and ...SHOCK HORROR ...They smoke 200 fags them ....Even on this ....
About a family on benefits and ...SHOCK HORROR ...They smoke 200 fags a week What is wrong on this forum ....
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Hi guys ive put a few posts on different boards and hope you can help with this one, i am due to be made redundant shortly in about a month i will have some payout but unsure of
what i will get .Me and my partner have considerable debt unsecured to the...
Started by dannychampoftworld on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at moneysavingexpert):
Go to www.turn2us....
Off for housing benefit on it (assuming you don't have capital above 6k which reduces it and above 16k that rules it out).
Model your post-redundancy benefit entitlement on the Turn2us online benefit calculator.
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Family Life on Benefits http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16812185
Check this out on that link, however do they cope?
Bear in mind those figures are per week right which means they must have a full Sky package for starters. £240 a week on shopping? If you ...
Started by Sir Francis on
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by 12 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at footballforums):
Some benefits are important but they could easily cut cigarettes and a large
pouch of tobacco I´d make those long term (not sick) ones work for their benefits) that most people living....
These benefit scroungers do my head in.
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Short story.
Close relative has brain tumour is recovering from surgery and about to start radiotherapy/chemo.
She is only gradually getting movement back in one side of her body and there will be residual weakness. Her eyesight has been affected, she...
Started by Poppy9 on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at moneysavingexpert):
I am currently....
Quote with benefit claims.
I went on the website but no local advisors so was directed to website .
Nurses are usually very knowledgable about the benefits.
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Http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16812185
Really interesting article. Can see things in the weekly expenditure list which aren't exactly necessities. Surely they should have spent that money getting new skills. The guy has been unemployed since 2001 (more...
Started by chris9991 on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at cableforum):
Of this section, applying a benefit cap to welfare benefits means securing that, where a single person’s or couple’s total entitlement to welfare benefits with the exclusion of child benefit some that can't be disputed, but....
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