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  • OP do you want your son to grow up knowing his dad is being a bit of a sponger?

    Fair enough you have a job and thats good, but cutting down your hours just to increase your benefit entitlement is just so so wrong
    You can say it's to spend more time with your son till you're blue in the face, but you know full well thats not the real reason behind your thinking
    Future Mrs Gerard Butler :D

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  • chris1804
    chris1804 Posts: 115 Forumite
    edited 19 February 2010 at 12:24AM
    Morgan_Ree wrote: »
    OP do you want your son to grow up knowing his dad is being a bit of a sponger?

    Fair enough you have a job and thats good, but cutting down your hours just to increase your benefit entitlement is just so so wrong
    You can say it's to spend more time with your son till you're blue in the face, but you know full well thats not the real reason behind your thinking



    mate i couldnt give to !!!!s about benafits, so your telling me im more interested in benafits than more time with my son?

    i have got this site all wrong, heres me thinking its about advice, was i wrong
  • chris1804 wrote: »
    mate i couldnt give to !!!!s about benafits, so your telling me im more interested in benafits than more time with my son?

    So why are you living off them and planning to reduce your hours so you can ponce even more BENEFITS off the state ?
  • chris1804 wrote: »
    mate i couldnt give to !!!!s about benafits, so your telling me im more interested in benafits than more time with my son?

    If you don't care about benefits then why are asking about possible entitlements if you cut down your hours as well as others experiences of this?

    If you didn't care you wouldn't even be considering cutting down your hours
    You'd do what millions of us do, drag our !!!!!! out of bed and not see our kid/s for the rest of the day
    Thats life
    If you're lucky enough to be able to support yourself so you can be a stay at home mum/dad then good for you

    Clearly thats not the case for you
    Future Mrs Gerard Butler :D

    [STRIKE]
    Team Wagner
    [/STRIKE] I meant Team Matt......obviously :cool:
  • chris1804 wrote: »
    mate i couldnt give to !!!!s about benafits, so your telling me im more interested in benafits than more time with my son?

    Ok, so you're not interested in benefits - mmm then why look up the entitlement and post on the benefits board.

    Like I said before, if this was truly about spending more time with your child you wouldnt be questioning how much you could get from the benefit system by working the least hours you can get away with.
  • He doesn't earn enough to support himself let alone a family. He has to depend on his little meal ticket to rake in the benefits.
  • bunny999 wrote: »
    So why are you living off them and planning to reduce your hours so you can ponce even more BENEFITS off the state ?



    this is my first week in benafits mate i have NOT claimed for benafits since my son has been born you lot are jokers, it was C A B who told me to apply for benafits to help with living, you know what , im sure you poeple think im from another country never worked in my life have 7 children go on 4 holidays a year and all payed for on benafits
  • Ok, so you're not interested in benefits - mmm then why look up the entitlement and post on the benefits board.

    Like I said before, if this was truly about spending more time with your child you wouldnt be questioning how much you could get from the benefit system by working the least hours you can get away with.


    if i wanted to do the least hours i wouldnt work, you know what forget i ever asked for advice
  • The word is BENEFITS. Maybe you should attend a literacy class, it might improve your chance of getting a job that pays an adult wage.
  • chris1804 wrote: »
    this is my first week in benafits mate i have NOT claimed for benafits since my son has been born you lot are jokers, it was C A B who told me to apply for benafits to help with living, you know what , im sure you poeple think im from another country never worked in my life have 7 children go on 4 holidays a year and all payed for on benafits

    So this is your 1st week claiming WTC/CTC as well as CB?
    Future Mrs Gerard Butler :D

    [STRIKE]
    Team Wagner
    [/STRIKE] I meant Team Matt......obviously :cool:
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