MSE News: MPs vote to limit benefit rises to 1%

bloomingflower

bloomingflower wrote: »

This is quite surprising. So from year 1998 to 2011 proves that it is not actually a huge jump.
Considering we are led to believe that so many single mums are sucking the life out of the welfare system!

FBaby wrote: »

But these figures only indicate the percentage of single parents not the percentage of benefits claimed by single parents. What would be interesting would be to compare the percentage of single parents with the ratio of benefits going to single parents in total £.

This is what I can find so far for ISLP;...
The number of lone parents claiming Income Support (IS) decreased by 30 thousand to 584 thousand in the year to February 2012. The figure was 614.

Also at the end of October 2012, the working age Income Support lone parents (ISLP) early estimate was 515 thousand.

Those are fair reductions for ISLP alone even before the introduction of UC.

princessdon

bloomingflower wrote: »

This is what I can find so far for ISLP;...
The number of lone parents claiming Income Support (IS) decreased by 30 thousand to 584 thousand in the year to February 2012. The figure was 614.

Also at the end of October 2012, the working age Income Support lone parents (ISLP) early estimate was 515 thousand.

Those are fair reductions for ISLP alone even before the introduction of UC.

Wow - don't suppose the decrease has anything to do with the fact they lost their entitlement to IS do you?

You know when the age of the child you claimed for was lowered so they moved to JSA.

plum2002

princessdon wrote: »

Wow - don't suppose the decrease has anything to do with the fact they lost their entitlement to IS do you?

You know when the age of the child you claimed for was lowered so they moved to JSA.

That's more than possible, most reported decreases in benefit claims produced by the government are manipulations, they are still claiming albeit a different benefit.

FBaby

princessdon wrote: »

Wow - don't suppose the decrease has anything to do with the fact they lost their entitlement to IS do you?

You know when the age of the child you claimed for was lowered so they moved to JSA.

If it is the case, then it is pretty depressing to think that 30,000 single parents were not working yet their children were at the age when they had at least 6 hours a day to do so without requiring childcare.... but of course, lack of childcare is the only reason why single mothers don't work.

Dunroamin

bloomingflower wrote: »

This is quite surprising. So from year 1998 to 2011 proves that it is not actually a huge jump.
Considering we are led to believe that so many single mums are sucking the life out of the welfare system!

A rise of 200% in 40 years is an enormous jump!

ILW

clemmatis wrote: »

Official figures suggest otherwise. The % of single parent families has risen from 8% in 1971, through 24% in 1998, to 26% in 2011.

Sorry.typo on my part, should have read 5 times. Which I find rather depressing in the lack of responsibility shown.

flexrider

shedboy94 wrote: »

Really???? Can you back this up?

Yes i can Thanks?

But since i not commentated for months its the question of can i Really Be interested too now? So many wanna be the righteous the heads so far away from the trees i suspect. What i mean is so many chief's in there wig wam's on views i rather be an Indian Lurking.


Gosh so much trolling on here its off the Hemispherical London rioter scale...:rotfl:

good to see princessdon chuittering away on here as usual my dont you ever stop haha!

flexrider

shedboy94 wrote: »

There are families out there receiving more than £26k in Tax Credits alone..........add on CB, HB, CTB and it becomes a scary amount of money.

Per case Per Year not Total as the press state over the years to sell papers LIKE

MILlIONARES HOUSES BUILT IN LONDON
TAXPAYERS FUND COUPLE 72 QUID A WEEK JSA TO LIVE THERE!!

P.s as you asked me can you prove this

Can you prove this also with REAL People in country not stats you read somewhere :T...

tinkledom

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

It used to be the case that people made friends amongst other school mums. Not every mum works, and if they do, it isn't always the same hours. Arrangements were made between them.

Your kid would go to another mum's house before school and the same or another mum's house after school.

Why don't people do this any more?

Isn't there a problem with the old enhanced police check?


Would you let your child be taken to someone else's home by a mum who might be holding a dark secret?


Come on, wake up, males and females alike abuse children in many ways - hence it is not acceptable today to put your child at risk of this happening.

jacques_chirac

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