Massive benefits cuts

Ionkontrol

BertieUK wrote: »

How many more are getting away with it?

spenderdave

Gentile wrote: »

What cuts ? I thought there was a 1% increase.

Indeed, a 1% cap on increases is a 1% increase. Nobody is getting less. The media seem to be painting a very biased picture of this.

Generali

Ionkontrol wrote: »

That will make it so much easier to afford the welfare bill, the fact that apparently the cost is less than some people think.

A fact is that the state spends more than can be paid for out of taxation. Another fact is that welfare is the largest part of state spending. To reduce the former it is highly likely that the latter will have to be reduced.

Here's a good one. What proportion of income tax is paid by the top 10% of earners? What about the top 1%?

geek1981

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I'd suggest if working families cannot cope with a £5 reduction a week, theres something seriously wrong with that family.

Agree with that 100%!! Also rather than putting 60k cap, CHB should be taken away for families who got more than two kids. You cannot rely on tax payer for having as many kids as you want. How ridiculous family who got 5 kids take all CHB where a parent who got only one kid who earn 60k lose everything, Because he did proper family planning and knows about managing his own finance? :question:

nicko33

CLAPTON wrote: »

we jail him to encourage the others

well, maybe we should find a cheaper and more effective way to discourage the others

SailorSam

BertieUK wrote: »

How many more are getting away with it?

I don't think any of us would disagree that anyone guilty of benefit fraud should be punished, think of the money we could save if it was stopped.
But could the resources put into catching the benefit cheats be better spent catching the tax evaders, that would give us a bigger return on the cost of investigators.

http://citywire.co.uk/money/tax-evasion-costs-treasury-15-times-more-than-benefit-fraud/a378274

johnny_storm

mrginge wrote: »

Apparently these cuts are going to impact some working families by as much as £200 a year. That's nearly £5 a week.

How the fr1gging hell is anyone supposed to cope with this devastating reduction in benefits????????

Im assuming you are being sarcastic, and yes they should have been cut by £2000 a year.

geek1981

That family complaining about £5 reduction must be spending more than that on Pizza take-away every week!!! :rotfl:

GeorgeHowell

mrginge wrote: »

Apparently these cuts are going to impact some working families by as much as £200 a year. That's nearly £5 a week.

How the fr1gging hell is anyone supposed to cope with this devastating reduction in benefits????????

Get off their a**e, get on their bike, and get a job ?

somethingcorporate

SailorSam wrote: »

I don't think any of us would disagree that anyone guilty of benefit fraud should be punished, think of the money we could save if it was stopped.
But could the resources put into catching the benefit cheats be better spent catching the tax evaders, that would give us a bigger return on the cost of investigators.

http://citywire.co.uk/money/tax-evasion-costs-treasury-15-times-more-than-benefit-fraud/a378274

Thanks, that's an interesting article.

I think it raises a different emotion though because benefit fraud is money which is actually being stolen from the tax-payer whereas tax evasion is money that the Government never sees.

It does make a very valid point into identifying where resources should be expended though!