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Tories are certainly getting stuck into our benefits system...
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...The £190 ...every pregnant mother ... multiply that by the number of pregnant mothers and that will prove to be quite a saving.
Source: National Statistics http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=369There were 706,248 live births in 2009
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What effect will all these cuts have long term? Cutting all these benefits will mean less money going to places that it used to.
More civil unrest is also a possibility.
More? must have missed the riots to date...Go round the green binbags. Turn right at the mouldy George Elliot, forward, forward, and turn left....at the dead badger0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Source: National Statistics http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=369
706248 x £190 = £134,187,120
Plus the £250 CTF at both birth and 7 is the best part of £500 Million pounds per year.0 -
I've no problem with CTF's and the pregnancy grant being cut tbh, it saves less then £1 billion a year, which is small fry tbh.
The biggies of Incapacity benefit, Income Support and Housing Benefit etc have to be addressesd. How this will be cut at a time when unemployment is likely to rise is anyone's guess though."An arrogant and self-righteous Guardian reading tvv@t".
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As I say at a time when unemployment is likely to rise, what jobs do those on IB etc do, bearing in mind they are likely to less skilled than the general workforce at large.
Don't get me wrong too many are swinging it on IB but I struggle to see how they are going to get into work."An arrogant and self-righteous Guardian reading tvv@t".
!!!!!! is all that about?0 -
robin_banks wrote: »As I say at a time when unemployment is likely to rise, what jobs do those on IB etc do, bearing in mind they are likely to less skilled than the general workforce at large.
Don't get me wrong too many are swinging it on IB but I struggle to see how they are going to get into work.
Who cares? There are plenty of veg picking jobs in norfolk they can do.
They could even live in tents for a few months and find out how hard life can really be.0 -
This is ridiculous though:The Conservatives pledged during the election campaign not to reduce benefits for the elderly, such as pension credit, free bus passes, television licences and the winter fuel payment.
I've no idea how many people on incapacity benefit are not genuine, but if the government is taking the risk of throwing some disabled people off benefits, there's no place for free TV licences (£500m), free bus passes (£2.5 billion), or a winter fuel allowance that starts at 60 and it not means tested (£2.7 billion).The Government trumpets the Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) as a major part of its Fuel Poverty Strategy; WFP is by far the largest spending on fuel poverty. But by the Government’s own figures, only 18% of households in receipt of it are fuel poor. 100,000 pensioner households who receive WFP have an income over £100,000. Meanwhile a full 49% of the ‘fuel poor’ receive no WFP.
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the cuts are nowhere near enough. they should have just cut all benefits by 50% and stopped them all, except disability, after 12 months.
if anyone on benefits has luxuries like a tv then they have too much money and do not need benefits.
no one living solely on benefits should have money to allow them to smoke. i gave up because they were getting too expensive. how can benefit scum afford them?0 -
What effect will all these cuts have long term? Cutting all these benefits will mean less money going to places that it used to.
More civil unrest is also a possibility.
I've already started! I threw a dustbin through my neighbours front window in protest at the cuts. She wasn't getting into the protest spirit at all and in fact she was quite rude to me. So much for being in it together and neighbourly love and all that!Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0
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