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

mazza111

Oh should have mentioned I had physio too, which helps reduce a bit, but when she massaged that area in the spine it was heavenly!! Unfortunately the effects don't last too long

princessdon

Ellejmorgan wrote: »

I know about the OU, my Sister graduated last Friday,

I am not able to study at this time..

Last Friday (sorry thought I read a while ago that she graduated), congratulations to her.

You are always negative/defensive when people mention study or work and then you throw out "so suggest things".

Ellejmorgan

princessdon wrote: »

Last Friday (sorry thought I read a while ago that she graduated), congratulations to her.

You are always negative/defensive when people mention study or work and then you throw out "so suggest things".

That's because the benefit bashers think they have all the answers, so I say, ok then and no one ever has the answers..

Perhaps if there was more compassion here, and you realised i'm struggling I may react differently, read the thread see the carp directed at me..
And i'm a genuine claimant who has reason to be claiming..


The ceromony was on Friday, there is a few months between finding out they have passed and the graduation

leveller2911

Morlock wrote: »

Okay, so you are a benefits claimant I presume.



You are one of the 'usual suspects' in my book. You come across as very anti-benefits.

You have a book on "usual suspects"?:eek:.
You really need to get out more instead of only ever popping on the benefits thread have a wander round the site. Theres some really interesting topics on the forum anything from favourite songs on the 80,s to how to grow bigger cucumbers. You accuse people of being "anti benefits" and yet you only ever seem to post on the benefits section.

My uncle passed away a few years ago after suffering from MS.On a number of occasions he asked me,my sister and my mother to put his "cash" (benefit money") into our bank accounts so that he didn't go over the savings limits.We all declined because we believed it was wrong.When he died we had to go through every single book in his house finding £20-50 notes between pages.He had thousands of pounds stashed away because he was "entitled" to that money.

The question is where do we draw the line at which benefit income is a liveable income.I wouldn't want any genuine disabled person financially struggling from one day to the next but theres a big difference between having enough to live on and people like my uncle who had thousands stashed away in his house,a gun collection (paid for from benefits)worth about £6k and a 30ft pond with Koi carp in.All of this and more was paid for through the benefits system and before you ask no he didn't have much in the way of saving before being diagnosed with MS.

Another example was a friend of mine who lost both his legs, he didn't sit around moping saying how hard his life was, he was in constant pain/discomfort but he worked for nearly all of his adult life in a printing works.He put to shame his neighbour who gave up work because he had a bad back.He regularly gets in his Ford Focus motorbility car ,travel to the nearby rivers ,open the car boot and take out his 65kg of fishing equipment and walk 2 miles up the river bank to fish.

All of the above is a 100% true there are benefit cheats and genuine but from reading your posts you seem to be very defensive as soon as the subject is mentioned.Just out of interest,in your opinion how many of the 1,000,000 people who were in receipt of IB were genuine?.


I have a dislike for all political parties ,they all have some good ideas and terrible ones but I for one can't forgive Nu Labour for the mess they have left this country in.


Its true we do need to close the tax loopholes used by the likes of Vodaphone etc but we also need to get the lazy and those who are "delicate"in our society working and paying their way.

Ellejmorgan

mazza111 wrote: »

Oh should have mentioned I had physio too, which helps reduce a bit, but when she massaged that area in the spine it was heavenly!! Unfortunately the effects don't last too long

I had three sessions and referred back to the hospital, they wanted me to have six months, the physio thought it was pointless and wouldn't improve things..

paddedjohn

Didnt this thread start off being about cuts to housing benefit. How did we get onto disability benefits?

Oscargrouch

Me thinks all child benefits should be abolished; the world is over populated, as this Country is, if you can't afford them, don't have them, end of story. :beer:

princessdon

Ellejmorgan wrote: »

That's because the benefit bashers think they have all the answers, so I say, ok then and no one ever has the answers..

Perhaps if there was more compassion here, and you realised i'm struggling I may react differently, read the thread see the carp directed at me..
And i'm a genuine claimant who has reason to be claiming..


The ceromony was on Friday, there is a few months between finding out they have passed and the graduation

I know you are genuine (even if I didn't believe your disability - and I do think you have mobility needs), you are entitled as a parent of a child under 5. And that is one rule I fully support, so I don't "bash" you.

However, you said - "Give me a positive of what I can do" then stated you wish to perhaps work as a counsellor, I ask if you have thought about training and I am "bashing you"?

What if you didn't know about the OU, what if you didn't know there was free childcare and free courses ran during school hours?

In short you suggested something you'd like to do when better, I gave an honest and helpful answer (ie start studying now at your own pace and around your childcare/disabilities and I get accused of bashing?

Given the childcare grants - it would have also solved your need for support in this area as they could have funded the nursery for LO to attend.

You know, sometimes I wonder why I bother

leveller2911

paddedjohn wrote: »

Didnt this thread start off being about cuts to housing benefit. How did we get onto disability benefits?

The title states "Welfare" cuts.........:D

Dunroamin

Morlock wrote: »

Okay, so you are a benefits claimant I presume.

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Unless you include the state retirement pension, you presume too much.