newbie 1st post. on benefits, need help with broken washing machine

Damzel_In_Distress

welshmoneylover wrote: »

Dear me, its dark and dingy outside this morning, I wonder if the council will pay for me to have a few days in the sun to ease my SAD.

Does anyone know of any free holidays with spending money chucked in?
rofl

Sue

Social services DO give people on benefits free holidays!! :eek:
If you go to them and complain that you are depressed cause you cant afford to take your children away like "normal" families and cry poverty then they actually will pay for a caravan holiday for you.

dmg24

Damzel_In_Distress wrote: »

Social services DO give people on benefits free holidays!! :eek:
If you go to them and complain that you are depressed cause you cant afford to take your children away like "normal" families and cry poverty then they actually will pay for a caravan holiday for you.

Anyone with half a brain knows that it is not nearly as simple as that.

Nigella_2

Local Jobcentres normally have phones in them to get through to JSA/Social Fund etc.

You could try your Utility Company Trust fund, previous employer benevolent fund or Association of Charitable trusts to see if you qualify to apply.

dmg24

circus_48 wrote: »

I am amazed to discover that my taxes can be spent on washing machines and holidays if you are feeling a bit down!! No offence to the OP but ,surely everybody needs a bit of motivation to earn their own money.

!!!!!!, I can see why people don't work now...I am writing my resignation as we speak, my boiler has broken so I will ask the council to send a plumber round!! LOL :-)

If you bothered to read the responses, you will find that these provisions apply in very limited circumstances.

dmg24

circus_48 wrote: »

I don't care what the circumstances are!! I am saddened to discover that £120 of my £760 tax this month could go to buy someone a new(ish) washing machine! Tax payers like myself it seems, buy a washing machine for someone who is not working and then, when the need arises, go out and buy our own too. !!!!!! that, if I already own one somewhere by proxy...I'll have that one thanks!! LOL

I'm only messing :-)

Don't really know how I ot on to this thread, by accident I think.

I will leave you all to work on this years free summer holiday, after all you must be very very tired after doing nothing for a living...apart from all that form filling and whinging about how hard done by you are..take it easy you need a break!! :-):rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

You will find that many people on the Benefits board also pay taxes, either currently or in the past. This is not a place for judgment, so perhaps if you have nothing constructive to add, you should wander away again.

I hope nobody judged you so harshly when you posted about your debt and going bankrupt? Maybe you could show people here the same respect that was shown to you?

dmg24

circus_48 wrote: »

Are you on a crusade to fight the corner of the non-payers and save them from the evil of the payers???

Rather than spending all your time on these threads with your 'Robin Hood' approach, check out the jobs pages and get your hands dirty. That way you can buy your own washing machine and bragg about it to your friends.:rotfl: :rotfl:

Actually no, I worked my way out of a sticky situation...just like you should. Hard work never killed anyone mate. When the going gets tough...... you should try it!!

Why don't you just go away? As previously stated, the Benefits board is for help and advice, not judgment. It is very clear that you are not here for any constructive reason.

If you do not like the purpose of the Benefits board, then please take up your complaint with the MSE Team. They make the rules.

[Deleted User]

If these "do gooders" get on your "you know what" why are you on this site?

justmel

Circus you are a very rude and immature person who obviously has no idea about people and individual circumstances....you dont know if the OP has been made redundant and is trying hard to find work and yes i am offended by your ignorance as i too do not work due to illness and i think you should get off that little dream cloud you are floating on and realise that i would much rather have my health and be able to work-perhaps you also need to wake up to the fact that you are not the only person paying taxes.EVERYONE in some way or another pays taxes.

Now back to the OP,if you have been on income based JSA for 26 weeks or more you can apply for a loan and you don't even have to specify what it is for,you wont get a grant if you are fit and well,i cant even get a grant for a washing machine and i'm not but you may get a loan so you repay but the problem is solved and you wont need to ask for much because second hand they are fairly cheap.

Freecycle is a great suggestion too,just join up your local ones and you can normally put a wanted post but if the group doesnt allow that then they are often offered there anyway.

seven-day-weekend

To circus 48

A request has been made by Martin (on a sticky thread at the top of the board) and also by MSE Andrea in a later thread to keep the Benefits Board free from judgemental remarks and discussions of Benefits Policy , as otherwise people may be discouraged from asking for advice about benefits, which is the purpose of the Bnenefits Board.

The Discussion Time Board is the place for such things.

Just also to add (again), as someone has already pointed out , many Benefits recipients have been, or are still, taxpayers. You are not the only one. My husband paid tax for forty years while he was working, he still pays it now that he (legally) claims a State Benefit. There are many like him. I also paid for many years, no longer pay, but claim no Benefits either. There are also plenty like me.

Anyway, whether somebody does or does not pay tax is irrelevant, this board exists to give people advice about benefits and people should not be scared to post on it because of someone's judgemental attitiude.

If you have nothing constructive to say, it might be a good idea to post on another board.

Thanks

zappster1966

My Dad gets handouts. He got a grant for a washing machine. He got the grant because he got cancer, had part of his bowel removed & sometimes his colostomy bag leaks during the night, which leaves him & the bed covered in his own waste. He worked and paid taxes for 37 years, all with the same employer.

14 months before he was due to retire the company pension scheme went tits up ... that's why he now gets Pension Credit to top up his state pension. And that's why he qualified for a grant for a washing machine, that combined with the exceptional pressures he would have faced without a machine.

I would have given him money myself ... but he's even more embarressed to ask for money from his own Son than he is to ask from the government, and by God that's saying something because he asks for nothing. I had to hold a gun to his head to get him to apply for Pension Credit & even now he refuses to apply for Attendance Allowance or War Pension despite sustaining a serious knee injury on duty during his national service.

For some people it's the most demeaning thing in the world to ask for help & the very last thing they'd do ... and they sure as hell don't need folks with all the mental rigour of a teenage scribbler at the Daily Wail telling them to sod off as soon as they poke their heads above the parapet.

Sure some folks swing the lead ... that's for the discussion boards ... not here.