List The Benefits You Receive. Can the state afford them?

milliebear00001

I get child tax credits and child benefit - both of which mean we can pay the bills and keep a roof over our heads. I am a teacher, so not exactly a state sponger.

My husband receives DLA and Incap. I think he preferred earning an accountant's salary though...

Apologies to all who resent us taking their hard earned cash. Funny how nobody mentions the years of paying in my husband did, or the tax I still pay though.

PasturesNew

chucky wrote: »

yeah but Brit thinks you're well fit innit!!!

Dunno where you made that up from.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

You've missed the sentiment of the thread and only answered Hamish's original posting.

Your meant to say you get your bins emptied, your roads cleaned, your streets lit etc. You had free schooling and have the availability of A&E should you need it, libraries etc.

Oh.

I have no bins really - hardly eat a thing, it's not my bin.
Roads aren't cleaned round here - rain does tht.
I did have free schooling, but it was !!!!!!.
I've not needed an A&E yet, but it's nearly an hour away.
Libraries are !!!!!! too.

Did I do it properly now?

Sapphire

I have worked for several decades and never taken any benefits of any kind. I do object to people on higher incomes than me who wish to breed being paid out of taxpayers' money in benefits. It's unfair. If you can't support children, don't have them – the planet is already dangerously over-populated by humans.

It's also nauseating to hear the people on relatively high incomes objecting to child benefit being taken away from them. The guy who wrote in the Guardian has five children, for f's sake, and was complaining about not being able to send them to music lessons (at the expense of hard-working taxpayer's like me)!

Disgusting.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Libraries are !!!!!! too.

I consider it my personal mission to change your mind on this.

Heaven help me.

bootman

globalds wrote: »

The biggest benefit I receive every month is that the government are paying 80% of my mortgage because I am on a tracker.

If interest rates were anywhere near the true cost of lending I would really be feeling the credit crunch.

In mitigation I have used this extra cash to over pay ..Thus hopefully getting me off this state benefit sooner rather than later.

Tax payers are now making OVERPAYMENTS on other peoples mortgage's as well. This just gets better and better.

silvercar

bootman wrote: »

Tax payers are now making OVERPAYMENTS on other peoples mortgage's as well. This just gets better and better.

and the bigger mortgage you have, the higher an earner you probably are, so the bigger the overpayment the tax payer is making.

Sapphire

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh.

I have no bins really - hardly eat a thing, it's not my bin.
Roads aren't cleaned round here - rain does tht.
Libraries are !!!!!! too.

Aren't things like rubbish collection and street maintenance paid for by us via council tax?

When we talk about benefits I understand it to mean various allowances that people get, paid for by taxpayers' money, e.g. housing allowances, disability allowance, child benefits, and so on.

By the way, I do think that it is nonsense for pensioners living abroad to receive winter heating allowances, and in fact feel that anyone who already has, say, £30,000 or more in private pensions should forfeit the state pension. (They definitely should not receive free bus passes, heating allowances or paid-for TV licences!)

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

I consider it my personal mission to change your mind on this.

Heaven help me.

Have you ever been to a small, country library?
Or a remote town library?

I was doing an OU course, needed a book. Ordered it from the library (which costs money), the book never came before the course was over. For example.

Maybe yours is good, so you're looking at it through rose-tinted glasses. But most libraries are !!!!!!.

sjaypink

I have just spent almost a full hour earlier crying watching panorama. The current £££ and stats mean nothing really compared to the potential state our country will be in if we don't sort the underlying issues

On this topic, I kind of feel for the higher tax payers who will be losing out on CB. If you are paying a lot of tax I guess its just seen as a small rebate.