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MSE News: Autumn Budget Statement: Benefits to rise 5.2% with inflation

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"There had been fears this rise would be cut to 4.5% which would have led to a combined £1 billion loss ..."
"There had been fears this rise would be cut to 4.5% which would have led to a combined £1 billion loss ..."
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100% correct! Why should people on Jobseekers allowance get what is effectively a pay rise?
Many people who are actually working wont receive a rise this year due to the financial state of the country yet these people sat on their backside all day watching Jeremy Kyle are due a 5% increase!
There's no wonder we are in this mess!
I receive benefits and I wholly agree. There is enough stigma attached to claiming benefits without the govt vilifying us as money grabbers even more.
Not everyone on benefits sits on their backside all day watching Jeremy Kyle, but thanks for confirming the stigma attached to claiming.
so you begrudge old people who need Pension Credit to top up their incomes an extra £5.35 a week? Even basic food prices have gone through the roof this year - it's not exactly going to go very far for them, is it?
Absolutely, although I did this morning because I'm on a day off and it was on while I was doing the vaccuming
Early on in the thread for the emotive post. But as to your 'question' no I don't begrudge it, but I don't think it should have been given.
Why is it that people struggling are so easily divided and conquered? When people bicker over one person getting slightly more than them then neither wins - the only one to gain is at the top, content to take from everyone else busy racing to the bottom.
I am happy that someone else is at least on this occasion getting what he needs and am willing to campaign for the same sort of thing for myself.