Can I Protect My Savings While on Benefits?

NYM

graffias wrote: »

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I am trying to defend those down-trodden who have no voice .......

You're kidding yourself if you believe that !
The message that comes across from your posts is that it's okay to defraud the welfare system.

Poppie68

NYM wrote: »

You're kidding yourself if you believe that !
The message that comes across from your posts is that it's okay to defraud the welfare system.

It's bizarre, i feel like i'm in the middle of an X Files plot, i got accused of having zero concept of justice and being ignorant...and then something about the US and UK and 1 trillion pound...i feel the poster thinks i ive been complict in a massive defrauding of some alternate universe, hiding the bankers in my cellar and have single-handedly forced the 'down trodden' into poverty and slavery!!!
All i did was point out the thread was over a year old.....That will teach me:(

NYM

Poppie68 wrote: »

It's bizarre, i feel like i'm in the middle of an X Files plot, i got accused of having zero concept of justice and being ignorant...and then something about the US and UK and 1 trillion pound...i feel the poster thinks i ive been complict in a massive defrauding of some alternate universe, hiding the bankers in my cellar and have single-handedly forced the 'down trodden' into poverty and slavery!!!
All i did was point out the thread was over a year old.....That will teach me:(

:rotfl:

So it was you that was responsible for the global economic meltdown and all of mankind's failings !!!

nannytone_2

bad poppie68 ;0

dippy3103

Trying so hard not to bite...... But how the hell is anyone with 16k cash poor? They are not mega rich but they ain't about to starve

Poppie68

Sorry about that folks....i have to confess i am also responsible for the Icelandic volcanos erupting ( i was grumpy that day)...Shell suits, white stilettos and the Perm!!!!
I'm better now though.

NYM

Poppie68 wrote: »

Sorry about that folks....i have to confess i am also responsible for the Icelandic volcanos erupting ( i was grumpy that day)...Shell suits, white stilettos and the Perm!!!!
I'm better now though.

I was going to say you're forgiven for the volcanic eruptions...we all have our grumbling moments, but....white stilettos ????? nope that's unforgiveable.

whodathunkit

graffias wrote: »

The people go against one another pontificating about what is right and what is wrong like they are some holier-than-thou and those with petty jealousies turn their own neighbor, nay even their own brother or sister into the law.

It is disgusting and I am sick of listening to people criminalizing the poor for simply trying to survive the nightmare that is poverty in this supposedly advanced and prosperous country, whilst corrupt bankers continue to live in luxury off tax-payers money despite committing massive fraud by collusion - AND NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT IT - and every day I see in my newspaper yet another victim labelled 'fraudster' when all they did was inherit some money or got shopped by some 'friend' with a grudge.

The working class have always betrayed the working class - and that is the tragedy.

I am trying to defend those down-trodden who have no voice and it is simply my personality to be abrasive, doesn't mean I'm a bad person, sorry. :A

Perhaps you should stop reading the Daily Mail then?

Poppie68

NYM wrote: »

I was going to say you're forgiven for the volcanic eruptions...we all have our grumbling moments, but....white stilettos ????? nope that's unforgiveable.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I was the first to wear them with a shell suit, red lipstick and blue eyeshadow...and my perm perfectly set with 2 cans of hairspray....them were the days...

Indie_Kid

graffias wrote: »

Cap for savings needs to be much much higher. Savings are absolutely ESSENTIAL - only income should matter for benefits.

But then you'd have people with thousands in the bank claiming benefits they don't need. £16k is quite a bit of money. I can't understand why someone with that level of savings "needs" benefits.

It's not unreasonable to expect someone to use their savings to help them with day-to-day costs of living.