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Job Seekers allowance - reveal all savings?
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Why should he be punished for saving and investing whilst he is working. The unemployment if not his choice. I'd rather they capped benefits per family to stop families wanting 13 kids then this blokes 6 month JSA."On behalf of teachers, I'd like to dedicate this award to Michael Gove and I mean dedicate in the Anglo Saxon sense which means insert roughly into the anus of." My hero, Mr Steer.0
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Personally - I wouldn't tell them anything about any saving and move them elsewhere...
I have found that you get NOTHING for filling in the forms and telling Govt agencies what they want to know...
**No Bitter about the CSA at all**
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>>if i had 50 grand and a pension the last thing i would do would be claim benefits. entitled or not<<
I would, if I was entitled to them.
A friend of mine who is too ill to work, (she has bad epilepsy, clinical depression and other minor things) is married to a consultant geriatrician. Some people have said that because of his large salary she should not be allowed to receive her Incapacity Benefit....her response is that she is as entitled to it as anyone else who is too ill to work. I quite agree with her (IB is not means tested unless you have a pension).(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
anyone who can negotiate the Kafkaesque nightmare of the benefits system and actually get them to pay up is more than entitled to the money if you ask me....0
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I just declared that I had more than £8k. That rules you out of anything other than contributions based0
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The upper capital limit is now £16,000.0
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