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MSE News: George Osborne to make £10bn welfare cuts
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I think we should definitely cut benefits. I am sick of paying for other people's kids. I know of several people who let out their social houses...sub let them while getting housing benefit, two young women who have got pregnant to get social housing and many people who falsly claim benefits....some have told me how easy it is and have offered to show me how to do it. My son, who works can't afford another child yet he is paying for scroungers' kids. Benefit cuts...bring them on!
If everybody who actually knew people that are defrauding the system were to report them, there'd be less need to cut benefits to those who actually need them. I agree to a certain extent about child benefit payments. With seven billion people on the planet and over 60 million in the UK, paying child benefit for every child seems a bit silly; the first two children if you are below a certain income maybe.0 -
He's been living there for 3 months; if Benefit Fraud had stepped in he wouldn't be there end off!!
Like I said in previous post, Benefit Fraud are a disgrace allowing this to carry on after 4 complaints made.
Plus the fact they have just had a week's holiday which I believe her partner has paid for!!
Perhaps it is time to never allow anymore welfare payments, to those who defraud the welfare system?RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0 -
princessdon wrote: »In work life - I know that most of the parents with multiple kids by different fathers or fathers unknown (for benefit reasons) somehow seem to produce children that need housing.
How would having "fathers unknown" be an advantage for "benefit reasons"?0 -
How would having "fathers unknown" be an advantage for "benefit reasons"?
Sorry Fathers unkown is a local saying I guess. It's when they have a partner who for benefit reasons "claim" to live elsewhere yet miraculously still make child after child together. It's what I call a "living together" but claim not to for benefits.0 -
MissMoneypenny wrote: »Perhaps it is time to never allow anymore welfare payments, to those who defraud the welfare system?
If and only if anyone found defrauding the tax system is subsequently put on the highest rate of tax forever.0 -
princessdon wrote: »Sorry Fathers unkown is a local saying I guess. It's when they have a partner who for benefit reasons "claim" to live elsewhere yet miraculously still make child after child together. It's what I call a "living together" but claim not to for benefits.
It is quite legal for benefits purposes to have multiple children with someone, and have an enduring relationship, even to marry them, as long as you do not form a single household with them.
A household specifically means living under one roof, or using two houses 'as one'.0 -
The government is being very successful in redirecting public anger from overpaid bankers and large-scale tax avoiders to the far smaller numbers of benefit fraudsters, and genuine claimants.
I have overheard several conversations where people are now complaining about their neighbours rather than the real crooks.
Divide and rule!
Well done, George.0 -
they are also cutting housing benefit for people on benefits who are sick and disabled.i'm expected to pay £2.50 wk towards my council tax next yr from a £71 a wk income that wont be rising with inflation. it may only seem a small amount but i cant afford to pay my bills now. i expect a bad rise in crime.take from the poor and when they on a 'min' amount needed to live on and make them pay a bill that could mean prison if they dont..or get a job that isnt there ???0
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they are also cutting housing benefit for people on benefits who are sick and disabled.i'm expected to pay £2.50 wk towards my council tax next yr from a £71 a wk income that wont be rising with inflation. it may only seem a small amount but i cant afford to pay my bills now. i expect a bad rise in crime.take from the poor and when they on a 'min' amount needed to live on and make them pay a bill that could mean prison if they dont..or get a job that isnt there ???
Do you have a link to this? afaik the disabled and the elderly are to be protected.Be Alert..........Britain needs lerts.0
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