Let's help Duncan Smith - how would YOU improve the benefits system?

drc

Chaos_A.D. wrote: »

My first port of call would be to put all the double buggy pushing 17-18 year old slappers who think they can use children as meal ticket to a workless life on a chain gang, removing graffitti, picking up litter etc ... but best of all perhaps being seen as a reminder to the next generation that having children that you want the state to pay for while you sit on your @rse watching Jeremy Kyle & Loose Women is not the done thing.

I don't know. I would have thought being subjected to Jeremy Kyle and Loose Women punishment enough.

LizEstelle

'Help' those who have been in receipt of large, unearned inheritances or who have received unmerited bought-advantage education to repay their debt to those less fortunate by quadrupling tax on such situations.

'Help' those with double-barrelled surnames who would never remotely dream of sending their progeny to the schools which 95% of the population use to reconsider the scrapping of state school building repair and replacement.

'Help' those who attempt to gerrymander the parliamentary no-confidence voting tradition so as to ensure they cannot be booted out except by a 55% majority to see the error of their ways.

Great thread. I can see a huge amount of scope for helping these truly disadvantaged people. Let us not forget - most of them have deeply antisocial, psychological problems...

JonnyBravo

1) Child benefit limited to two children and means tested to recieve any. Looks at family income and declines from over £40k tapers to none at over £50k.
2) Means tested for winter fuel allowance

marklv

carolt wrote: »

Ideas on a postcard please; or better still, on this thread.

Scrap the state pension for the wealthy/better off.

Scrap the fuel allowance and replace it with higher state pension.

Single mothers to receive benefits in relation to one child only. Any additional children disregarded. Same for tax credits.

Remove benefits for all criminal/anti-social families.

marklv

bendix wrote: »

Link benefit payments to weight. Negatively.

Fatties get paid too much and spend it on cream cakes, thus making them fatter and less likely to work.

Cretin. Is this what you call a sensible contribution?

Exocet

marklv wrote: »

Cretin. Is this what you call a sensible contribution?

It was a joke.

Whereas this...

Single mothers to receive benefits in relation to one child only. Any additional children disregarded. Same for tax credits.

Remove benefits for all criminal/anti-social families.

Is just nonsense. You want to introduce a one child policy in the UK? Good luck with that.

Removing benefits from criminals and anti social is likely to.. what.. make them.. yes.. more criminal / antisocial.

Malcolm.

Exocet wrote: »

It was a joke.

Whereas this...

Single mothers to receive benefits in relation to one child only. Any additional children disregarded. Same for tax credits.

Remove benefits for all criminal/anti-social families.

Is just nonsense. You want to introduce a one child policy in the UK? Good luck with that.

Removing benefits from criminals and anti social is likely to.. what.. make them.. yes.. more criminal / antisocial.

Perhaps not remove benefits. Could lower them. Crime and anti-social behaviour should not pay.

robpw2

LizEstelle wrote: »

'Help' those who have been in receipt of large, unearned inheritances or who have received unmerited bought-advantage education to repay their debt to those less fortunate by quadrupling tax on such situations.

'Help' those with double-barrelled surnames who would never remotely dream of sending their progeny to the schools which 95% of the population use to reconsider the scrapping of state school building repair and replacement.

'Help' those who attempt to gerrymander the parliamentary no-confidence voting tradition so as to ensure they cannot be booted out except by a 55% majority to see the error of their ways.

Great thread. I can see a huge amount of scope for helping these truly disadvantaged people. Let us not forget - most of them have deeply antisocial, psychological problems...

sorry i have a double barrelled surname what is your problem with that lol

ps2659

Scrap the winter fuel allowance/cold weather payments for pensioners living abroad in the sun.

robpw2

ps2659 wrote: »

Scrap the winter fuel allowance/cold weather payments for pensioners living abroad in the sun.

i personally would scrap all benefits for people living abroad ,