Benefit changes are starting to hit home.

ab.da54

pipkin71 wrote: »

It does happen, but I don't think it's as many as people believe it to be.

It doesn't matter whether it's a small percentage or large percentage of single parents. Fact is, they are willing to have more and more children on the backs of hard working tax payers, without a thought that someone else is having to go out to work to earn that money so that they can have their large families and it is totally selfish on their part.

paddedjohn

pipkin71 wrote: »

It does happen, but I don't think it's as many as people believe it to be.

One is more than enough in my book.

t32eena

i got a letter weeks ago saying im going to be capped as my rent is £400 a week for the house i live in
and il only get £500 so it means paying rent and having £100 a week to live on for GET A JOB and get working tax credits and and dont come under the cap
im starting work tomorrow just haveto sort out workingtax credit which i stareted another thread for as i need help with that

t32eena

also i have 2 kids and 1 got custody of in 2009 when my sisiter died so that makes 3

pipkin71

paddedjohn wrote: »

One is more than enough in my book.

Sorry. I didn't mean to imply that it was ok just that I didn't think it was as huge an issue as people thought

Morlock

gayleanne wrote: »

...the rent is 650.00 a week...

Absolutely disgusting, nearly £40,000 per year to rent a three-bedroom house.

Morlock

ab.da54 wrote: »

Guaranteed, if there was not the benefits there to support them, they would not have so many.

Yeah, in 'some other non-specific country' people who don't receive extra-luxury-allowance benefit for added children don't have any more children. Like Africa, India or China, for example.

GobbledyGook

gayleanne wrote: »

I think she got the letter because she is renting privately and the council will be capping her rent, the rent is 650.00 a week, she can not go into social housing because she was evicted by the council, then she got a housing association house, and they ended up evicting her, the eldest child is 9, I feel so sorry for the kids, but the more I try to help the more she expects.

Eight children aged 9 and under?

If that's a true story then I have some sympathy with her because that must be utterly overwhelming.

Heaven knows where she has the time for baby making right enough!

jenzen

This does sound made up or misinformed. The £500 a week is a cap on housing benefit only, NOT all her benefits, either she exaggerated or you did.
Someone with 8 kids will still be getting a lot more

mysterywoman10

So let's assume it's true what is the solution?