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cj34

Please be nice to all MoneySavers. That’s the forum motto. Remember the prime aim is to help provide info and resources. If you don’t like someone, their situation, their question or feel they’re intruding on ‘your board’ then please bite the bullet and think of the bigger issue.

Bullfighter

You had your mortgage (over)paid for a year?! By the taxpayer!!!

Stop bleating.

Unbelievable.

GMS

Another example of the ridiculous welfare system we have in this country.

It is not difficult for the benefit to be paid to the lender at the correct amount. It is the same with LHA rent payments. Set amounts with extra lept by the claimant.

For the mortgage interest benefit there should be no gain to either party. Customer should not get it back but at the same token the lender should not pocket the overpayment.

Surely Northern Rock should return the overpayment to the government, after all they are skint after bailing out the likes of Northern Rock!

Joe_Bloggs

The Northern Rock became 100% state owned. I am proud to live in a country where the state can chip in and help financial institutions that went wrong as well as individuals who suffer misfortune. You have been given a helping hand why bite it ?
J_B.

Bullfighter

Joe_Bloggs wrote: »

The Northern Rock became 100% state owned. I am proud to live in a country where the state can chip in and help financial institutions that went wrong as well as individuals who suffer misfortune. You have been given a helping hand why bite it ?
J_B.

Surely you jest?

These institutions played casino and lost. They are financial terrorists and should not only have been left to fail, but their entire management team and board of directors should be put on trial.

Nothing should be too big to fail, and no-one should be too big to jail.

cj34

I paid tax for 20 years without once claiming benefits. If I had said the same thing about housing benefit no one would have replied in such a rude way.

Bullfighter

cj34 wrote: »

I paid tax for 20 years without once claiming benefits. If I had said the same thing about housing benefit no one would have replied in such a rude way.

You really don't get it, do you?

myhouse_2

cj34 wrote: »

I paid tax for 20 years without once claiming benefits. If I had said the same thing about housing benefit no one would have replied in such a rude way.

If you had been overpaid housing benefit for a year and were complaining about it, I rather suspect there would be many people being just as rude.

Si1

cj34 wrote: »

I paid tax for 20 years without once claiming benefits. If I had said the same thing about housing benefit no one would have replied in such a rude way.

the welfare state is something we all pay into, not because we expect anything out of it, but because it is there to protect the poor

I do not think you fit into this latter category, you have simply been subsidised at someone else's expense. This is not what the welfare state was set up for and you should be more grateful

Bullfighter

cj34 wrote: »

I paid tax for 20 years without once claiming benefits. If I had said the same thing about housing benefit no one would have replied in such a rude way.

In fact get down on your knees with a phone book open in front of you and start thanking each and every one of us for overpaying your mortgage.

shtove

cj34 wrote: »

Please be nice to all MoneySavers. That’s the forum motto. Remember the prime aim is to help provide info and resources. If you don’t like someone, their situation, their question or feel they’re intruding on ‘your board’ then please bite the bullet and think of the bigger issue.

The bigger issue is that we can't afford this nonsense.