Top advice to benefits claimants reversed to prevent offence to the little darlings..

wotsthat

Thought this was a better picture from the Mail - this thrifty mother has been letting her three year daughter do her hair. Poor kid is disabled too - no hands.

headcone

PaulF81 wrote: »

Does anyone else experience their brains turning to mush whilst watching eastenders and its ilk?

Rhetoric?

On/off switch might be of use to you.

Percy1983

I saw something about this on the TV last night, I just thought it was good advice which some may not have realised.

ILW

chem1st wrote: »

Nobody on benefits can afford that anyway, unless they are on disability or pension benefits.

Working age benefits are a pittance. Only the pensioners and disabled are raking in enough to afford such luxuries.

If they have popped out 3 or 4 kids they will be rolling in it.

IronWolf

Some people really are clueless, and Im talking about the PC brigade.

I'm on the board of a charity and there are plenty of people around that do squander the little money they have on booze and cigs. We often refuse help to these people as they will just continue to ask for handouts

ukcarper

ILW wrote: »

If they have popped out 3 or 4 kids they will be rolling in it.

And probably not be paying bedroom tax.

grizzly1911

ukcarper wrote: »

And probably not be paying bedroom tax.

Can't call a benefit cut a tax apparently. a bit like student loan repayments aren't a Graduate Tax apparently.

BertieUK

ukcarper wrote: »

So you spend less than £60 a week on food, energy, clothes, transports in fact every thing apart from rent and council tax.

PaulF81 He would like you to think that he only spends this amount per week - it makes as much sense as many of this other posts do.:(

PaulF81

BertieUK wrote: »

PaulF81 He would like you to think that he only spends this amount per week - it makes as much sense as many of this other posts do.:(

That's 120 quid a week for a doleite couple or almost 500 a month! We get by on 200 for food and around 200 on petrol, although I suggest if you were looking for a job, you won't be commuting the distances I have to!

It's not hard, it just means making your own food and not relying on McDonald's, turkey twisters and value horse burgers. Much cheaper to cook from scratch.

mulronie

ukcarper wrote: »

£71 a week for everything apart from rent and council tax life of riley.

I guess you forget that working people pay for:

Dental care - £17.50-£209
Prescriptions - £7.65
Court fees/Legal services - (whatever the lawyers can get away with)

Throw kids/disability/pensionable age into the mix and the £71 figure becomes bogus too... e.g. single parent + 2 sprogs:

Income Support - £71/week
Child Benefit - £33.70/week
Child Tax Credit - £113/week
School meals - £2/day
Housing Benefit - £125/week
Council tax - £17/week

The idea that £71/week is the full extent of the state's generosity is simply a nonsense that should be put to bed.