London Housing Benefit

Chris-x1

And you clearly have no idea of how the tax system works or why the benefits are absolutely necessary. You say you have had need of the system in the past? Perhaps you should've thought more about being able to support yourself before you decided to leave your parents home.

I'm going to pay a lot more tax in my life than I already have and I will be very happy that a small portion of those taxes are helping people. I suppose you're pro forced sterilisation of the working classes and other ultra right wing draconian measures. Well done for reinforcing so many stereotypes.

Angel89_2

No im not 'ridiculously right-wing'.

And so i dont think people should be ''forced steralised or aborted'', since that would be against human rights anyways.

BUT

Everyone makes their own choices about how they choose to have their life,
and so if someone chooses to go ahead and have a partner/child when they aren't clearly in a stable enough financial situation at the time for that,
then i dont think they should be able to get any money donated and handed out to them whatsoever.

They make thier bed so they should then have to lie in it.

100s of Millions of people have to eat very little and budegt very severely to get by,
and so i do think that those people who knowing that they cant support themself if they get into a situation, but still get into it anyways, should have to then workout how to get by by themselves and take responsibility for themselves.

Even if it means the join the millions who have to eat less and have less.




And when i moved out of my family house i was earning an extremely high amount of money and so was in a very good finanical situation to support mysefl and buy all the things i wanted and needed.

The only time i needed to get benefits money was 14months later, when i changed careers from being self employed to normal salaried&taxed employment,
and so i needed LHA for a few months to bridge the gap while i did the training for my new job.


The LHA i get as an under 25 is ridiculously low and doesn't even pay half my rent, so i still had to cover over half of it myself as well as all my own bills, food, travel and other costs.

And now that im working and paying taxes ive already more than repaid the amount that i even got as housing benefit for those few months.

Chris-x1

Ah I see what your problem is now. You believe that people on benefits are living some fabulous lifestyle where they are happily enjoying the finer things in life paid for by YOUR hard earned tax money! Well as someone who has worked in the Department for Work and Pensions I can tell you this simply isn't the case. Benefits claimants are living on the very cusp of the poverty line as the allowance they get has to be statistically worse than the lowest paid job in the country.

I agree that in a perfect world then family planning would be a little more simplistic as you describe but such is life. I'm not justifying my own decision to you or anyone but needless to say it was not my intention to raise a family yet but so it goes. As I've previously pointed out me and my partner stand to be relatively high earners in the next few years and if she takes time out of her career now rather than later it makes zero difference to you or other taxpayers. The taxes we both will pay in to the system when we're both earning again and elligible for zero benefits in 3-4 years time will be made for years and years to come. The fact that my taxes go to help people who need that help is only right and just in modern society.