MSE News: George Osborne to make £10bn welfare cuts

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"Chancellor George Osborne will today confirm plans to slash billions more from the bill for welfare ..."

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George Osborne to make £10bn welfare cuts

MUMZ2BEE

David Cameron needs a reality check.

Why should people under 25 be forced to live with their parents to save on housing benefit!!??

He needs to live in the real world and stop harassing people on benefit.

Some of us, like me, are disabled, and genuinely cant work.

I think his attitude to people on benefit along with Ian Duncan Smith I find quite appalling.

I am deeply concerned at these welfare cuts, and I fear vulnerable people like me will be worse off.

Maybe the like of Cameron and Duncan Smith maybe they should try living on welfare benefits and see how they cope.

How would they cope been constantly harassed, attending benefit medicals, and made to feel like a benefit scrounger.

Also maybe do what they do in China only limit to one child per family.

I know of someone who has 12 children, the eldest being 21, and she has NEVER done a days work to support any of the children, and she rakes in thousands of pounds a year.

Its is people like this whom the Government should be clamping down on having children needlessly!!

welshee

In a joint article in the Daily Mail today, Osborne and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith gave their backing to a proposal floated by Prime Minister David Cameron earlier this year to withdraw most of the housing benefits – worth an average £90 a week – currently paid to 380,000 under-25s.

Cameron said people should be living with their parents if they cannot fund a home of their own.

What happens to people that have no parents/family?

jamespir

its a joke to expect under 25 to live with mum and dad

MUMZ2BEE

And what about young people who are abused by their parents!!?? This is what I mean by David Cameron not having a bloody clue about everyday real life struggles.

robpw2

jamespir wrote: »

its a joke to expect under 25 to live with mum and dad

no one is expecting under 25s to live with thier parents , they could go out and get jobs and fund their own places , like the rest of us have too.
it wil be only those who don't want to work who will have to live with their parents till they are 25

Morlock

robpw2 wrote: »

it wil be only those who don't want to work who will have to live with their parents till they are 25

Absolute rubbish. 1 in 4 households that rent and claim housing benefit are employed. Rents are so overinflated that a lot of people cannot afford to rent somewhere without HB even when fully employed. And house prices are equally overinflated, the average age of the first time buyer is well in to the late thirties.

poppasmurf_bewdley

jamespir wrote: »

its a joke to expect under 25 to live with mum and dad

It's a joke to expect the taxpayer to fund the lifestyle of under 25's just because they don't (can't) get on with their parents.

I left home at the age of 24, and the only reason I did so was because I wanted to be independent AND I could afford to be so.

I am also in favour of limiting benefits to current children and not increasing them as families grow. Again, I had two children, but only when I knew they could be afforded.

I think the government's thinking is to prevent much of the abuse we have an the moment, such as the teenage girl getting pregnant and wanting her own house or flat. Maybe if the parents realise they will have to accommodate mother and child (or pay for them to be housed), they may be a little more careful in how they rear their own children.

Dunroamin

It seems like a good idea not to leave home until you can afford to do so - it's the way that most employed young people choose to live their lives.

Morlock

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

I think the government's thinking is to prevent much of the abuse we have an the moment, such as the teenage girl getting pregnant and wanting her own house or flat. Maybe if the parents realise they will have to accommodate mother and child (or pay for them to be housed), they may be a little more careful in how they rear their own children.

I think this policy may increase the perceived 'abuse' of the system to get a council property. I doubt very much that the policy will stop housing benefit for parents under 25, therefore increasing the motive to have children when under 25, as that will be the only option to afford a place to live.

pmlindyloo

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

It's a joke to expect the taxpayer to fund the lifestyle of under 25's just because they don't (can't) get on with their parents.

I left home at the age of 24, and the only reason I did so was because I wanted to be independent AND I could afford to be so.

I am also in favour of limiting benefits to current children and not increasing them as families grow. Again, I had two children, but only when I knew they could be afforded.

I think the government's thinking is to prevent much of the abuse we have an the moment, such as the teenage girl getting pregnant and wanting her own house or flat. Maybe if the parents realise they will have to accommodate mother and child (or pay for them to be housed), they may be a little more careful in how they rear their own children.

I absolutely agree with this.

No-one is expecting the under 25s to live with their parents if they can afford to rent a place themselves.

Personally I feel expectations are too high. Everyone seems to have this 'I am entitled to..........' attitude. Very few people seem willing to work hard and 'make do' in order to better themselves. They want it all now. Hence this tirade against the 'rich'. The culture of envy has got completely out of control.

I am totally in favour of stopping Child Benefit for everyone after the first 2 children. If people want more then fine but why should the state support them?

There was a huge outcry about the shared accommodation rate being raised to under 35 years but now it has died down people just get on with it.

We must do something about this huge welfare bill and then the truly sick and vulnerable can be properly looked after.