MSE News: 'I'm on benefits but I'm no scrounger'

thedrsmisses

goodcommonsense wrote: »

What have I not answered? Which of the listed benefits do you not receive?

NONE OF YOU BUSINESS!

i will discuss my family finances with someone from the dwp not a random no it all on a public forum

goodcommonsense

thedrsmisses wrote: »

care to answer my question???? or just going to pick out what backs up your false claims as to what we are entitled to???!!!

I'm sorry, your question was lost amongst excessive punctuation. I am qualified to advise on benefit entitlement.

Mupette

What does it matter what money is coming in, what business of ours to ask.

We could see from the picture that the husband has disability problems, i for one can understand the frustration of trying to prove you could work if someone gave you a chance, but you've got to find an employer who is willing to.

Its all good and well saying oh he could do this or that, i expect he could.. if it is that simple find an employer willing to take the chance on him, rather than b1tch about what he isn't doing, he is doing his bit, if someone doesn't want to take a chance on him its not his fault is it..

There are peeps on here who are stuck in the black and white and will not shift, where as in reality, you know the real world, not everything is black and white.

I couldn't care less what the family have coming in on benefits, i am sure they are getting what they should, and that's that.

Mrs_Arcanum

goodcommonsense wrote: »

I'm sorry, your question was lost amongst excessive punctuation. I am qualified to advise on benefit entitlement.

The have one child aged 2 (hardly school age) and another child.

Assumptions are being made about ages. They may not be over 50 so that rules the age payment out.

goodcommonsense

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

The have one child aged 2 (hardly school age) and another child.

Assumptions are being made about ages. They may not be over 50 so that rules the age payment out.

My statement about school age was to infer that they were entitled to CTC. Clearly this will still be the case with a two year old.

They are not over 50. "Ross" is of an age that will entitle him to an Age Addition on his IB. The Age Addition is awarded to younger claimants, not older ones.

thedrsmisses

goodcommonsense wrote: »

I'm sorry, your question was lost amongst excessive punctuation. I am qualified to advise on benefit entitlement.

then i suggest you get re-trained, for someone who claims to be a benefits adviser you truly lack compassion. you should also understand that as it is a public forum and it has ross' full name and where he is from on said article that it would a rather stupid move to discuss what we get and how much. you do not need to be a registered member of this site to view the boards just to post on them.

i hope your attitude to claimants you see is better then your attitude on here, as to me you come across as rude and arrogant.

thedrsmisses

and you have proved that anyone working for any form of benefits agency looks down on people like me and my family.

i am not lieing but like i have said i am not discussing personal details on a public forum feel free to dm us on twitter where you seem to have been lurking and watching and you might have got a different responce

Derivative

thedrsmisses wrote: »

and you have proved that anyone working for any form of benefits agency looks down on people like me and my family.

Wow.
And in a thread about not tarring people with the same brush.

Top!

lilmofie84

''I have two young children and a partner to support on a smidgen over £11,000 a year.'' - One would assume that this is amount received AFTER LHA/CTC. After all it's not like he can spend the money from LHA/CTC on his family as presumably that is/should be spent on his rent and council tax.... £11,000 a year to support a family of 4 is a tiny amount and my heart goes out to Ross and his family. I hope they can find some resolution soon and my advice to 'thedrsmissus' (not that you asked for it) would be to not take any notice of the negativity on here. SOME forum members have no compassion and clearly have nothing better to do with their time. Makes me wonder if they're ''scroungers'' just hell bent on bashing others because of their guilty conscience perhaps?

zigzigzag

thedrsmisses - you are so full of anger towards people on here who do not deserve it, who are only trying to help or trying to understand the issues better (which I thought was the point of the article), that maybe you are seeing stigma and discrimination in places even when it doesn't exist? I've no doubt that it does exist in society, but you're accusing people on here of it, when I can't see any evidence. Can't we just have a civilised discussion? Can't we ask reasonable questions? If a reasonable response is not given soon, then I fear that the article will be at risk of not reaching its objective, which was to give a greater understanding of life on benefits.

Also, it's virtually impossible to discuss benefits without discussing money - 'benefits' ARE money.

So you're now confirming that £11k includes HB and council tax benefit (even if these are zero). That means you've got to pay housing costs and council tax out of £11k; so one can only imagine that you're left with only £6k-8k to live on, or less.

If you don't want to discuss it, fine - but your husband is the one who brought it up, not us. We only want a proper understanding of the facts, that's all.