just stop all benefits.

The_White_Horse

wigglybum wrote: »

If there were a daftest post of the year competition,this one would win it hands down.
My husband has a 'bad back',multiple surgeries,he can't walk etc etc.5 years ago we had a combined income of £60,000,now it is less than £8,000.If you think for one minute we enjoy been on benefits then you are living in cloud cuckoo land.

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why diodn't you take out insurance cover?

wigglybum

The_White_Horse wrote: »

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why diodn't you take out insurance cover?

I really hope your life doesn't get turned upside down like ours has,maybe then you will show a little more sympathy to others less fortunate than yourself.

The_White_Horse

i am just asking. i have various policies in the event that i die, that i am ill, that I am injured, or that I lose my job and the same for my wife. clearly the policies cost money and many people don't want to pay for them, choosing to have Sky or an iphone instead. Well, that is their look out.

GeorgeHowell

There is certainly merit in stopping all benefits and then making everyone re-apply from scratch. Most right-thinking people agree with benefits as a safety net, but not as an instrument of social engineering, or a means to buy votes for the Labour Party. That should be the only criterion -- does someone genuinely need a safety net on a basis which most reasonable people would support. And it must never be set at a level where the lazy and the f e ckless can continually increase it by having endless children with different partners and use large swathes of the money on tobacco products, alcohol, gambling, text messages, and electronic gadgets. I don't know how far IDS's scheme goes towards this but it's what we need ... badly.

mazza111

The arrogance to believe that most people are better off on benefits. Yes, without doubt, some are, which shouldn't happen. But if you think most are better off on benefits, you're sadly mistaken.

Anselm

Yeahhh cut all benefits, send all the useless eaters to the work house where they belong! I'm going to open another bottle of Bollinger, do you want one?

somethingcorporate

No-one should be better off on benefits. They are a safety net, not an inducement to breed / stay off work! They should be there to provide literally the bare minimum (ideally in vouchers so they cannot waste the money on iphones and ciggies).

I think the idea of stopping them all is stupid but they should not provide a level of comfort of an average working family.

olly300

The_White_Horse wrote: »

i am just asking. i have various policies in the event that i die, that i am ill, that I am injured, or that I lose my job and the same for my wife. clearly the policies cost money and many people don't want to pay for them, choosing to have Sky or an iphone instead. Well, that is their look out.

Most insurances don't cover you if you can still work as something or are time limited. They also don't cover problems that you have already that get worse. So if you had a bad leg got insurance and then it was discovered by the doctors that your bad leg was actually something like sciatica you aren't covered.

For someone who is visibly disabled who loses a job it takes longer than a year to get a job even though they are very capable of working.

People with mental health illness and other disabilities often lie to get jobs. In the case of those with mental health disabilites they can get caught out if they have another break down and end up in hospital. I have a neighbour who worked in various temp jobs as his family helped him get the jobs. However his condition got worse and the last time he was sectioned that was it. He is now in a long term care home.

globalds

this novel concept will need more than one or two extra doctors ...

We can employ all these slackers as locums and solve all the nations troubles

iltisman

Any benefits should be just enough to cling on to life , not an alternative to employment.