Poppy appeal

samroo

How would you feel if your poppy appeal donation was being used to bail out a young couple who hadn't paid their rent with their housing benefit. Both Had I phones. Smoked. Oh and had just moved to a. Bigger rented place on account of their entitlement because they were expecting a baby

DCFC79

Anything to substantite this,

samroo

Well I could post a link to their tenAncy agreement And rent book and their british legion advisor but really just wNted to know if everyone else knew that their poppy money was donated to this type of person

bargainbetty

Is one of them ex-services? That is what usually happens with British Legion donations. If one is ex-services, you may be unaware of any number of problems they may have which prevent them working. Having an iphone is not an offence, you don't know that they don't have a home phone to save the money towards it, and if they didn't pay rent, it may be for any number of reasons.

If they are ex-services, then I have no damn problem at all. Anyone who is willing to defend our country deserves to be helped afterwards, particularly given what we have recently asked them to do in our government's name.

melancholly

well if this isn't a substantiated story you can link to, is this just hearsay and rumour? or has someone spectacularly broken confidentiality?

three lines of text doesn't exactly tell the full story, especially after a career that may have involved active duty in a conflict zone. i'm not too fussed and will happily buy my poppy again later this year.

Outpost

No worse than the people thousands of pounds of my taxes go towards funding every year.

paddyrg

Hardly a shocker, is it? Military service does not prepare people well for civvy street where they have to make choices and manage themselves instead of just being told. Maybe that's the case here? Maybe to make it worse, active combat left one of them a bit unwell and untogether. The RBL is specifically there to help people in that situation. I can't imagine it is all just handouts though, more likely a package of care and support to get them on an even keel, which is rather the point, isn't it?

Hern

RBL is pretty rigorous in vetting applications for help -- unlike the State, and hand-outs that sometimes, though not always, seem to be there to provide some folks with a lifestyle they couldn't otherwise be !!!!!d to work for. The OP's post is inevitably lacking in the kind of detail to which only the RBL would've had access. On which basis, if the RBL decided their case was worthy of support, then that's fine with me.

samroo

I wasn't in any way being disrespectful to the armed services. My husband served for 24 years. It's just my ex tenants have been set up in a bigger property getting everything paid for them after quitting their jobs (in their words better off on benefits) and it just makes my heart sink that they are being funded by money given to the poppy appeal. Service less than 2 years. No injury or active service. British legion did say they were educating them and wouldn't bail them out again. I suppose it's just everyone has come to accept that it's ok not to work because you can get your rent paid and enough cash fir whatever you need.

garethgas

samroo wrote: »

I wasn't in any way being disrespectful to the armed services. My husband served for 24 years. It's just my ex tenants have been set up in a bigger property getting everything paid for them after quitting their jobs (in their words better off on benefits) and it just makes my heart sink that they are being funded by money given to the poppy appeal. Service less than 2 years. No injury or active service. British legion did say they were educating them and wouldn't bail them out again. I suppose it's just everyone has come to accept that it's ok not to work because you can get your rent paid and enough cash fir whatever you need.

So, your husband's done 24 yrs service, the other couple's done 2 yrs.
They get a bigger place for free, you don't.
Is this envy?

maninthestreet

garethgas wrote: »

So, your husband's done 24 yrs service, the other couple's done 2 yrs.
They get a bigger place for free, you don't.
Is this envy?

They deliberatley made themselves unemployed, and expect charity donations to fund their lifestyle.