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IDS has his credit card suspended

Mersey_2
Mersey_2 Posts: 1,679 Forumite
in Benefits & tax credits
Work & Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has had his Parliamentary credit card locked by IPSA, as he was over £1,000 in arrears without receipts.


The FOI request revelation is particularly embarrassing as he had proposed cards to stop benefit recipients going into debt.
Please be polite to OPs and remember this is a site for Claimants and Appellants to seek redress against their bank, ex-boss or retailer. If they wanted morality or the view of the IoD or Bank they'd ask them.
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  • NYGiants
    NYGiants Posts: 545 Forumite
    Shouldn't this be in Discussion Time??
    "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money"
  • tomtontom
    tomtontom Posts: 7,929 Forumite
    As much as I despise the smug little man, this is a non story. It won't even be him that has messed up, one of his staff will be responsible for submitting his expenses.
  • lukieboy96
    lukieboy96 Posts: 666 Forumite
    IDS is a joke. Wish this would effect him but it won't as he will blame someone else!! Yet people can live on £71 a week in the real world
  • bloolagoon
    bloolagoon Posts: 7,973 Forumite
    Are we just bashing IDS or other MP's

    Others to have their cards suspended included his Labour opposite number Rachel Reeves, who owed £4,033.63 at the time.

    Shadow business minister Toby Perkins was subject to action when he owed £693.30.

    Health minister Ben Gummer had his card stopped with £1,290.07 outstanding, defence minister Mark Lancaster had a £600 tab, and former universities minister David Willetts owed £1,172.05.

    Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Joyce, who assaulted a fellow MP in a Commons bar, had his card blocked when he owed £12,919.61, and later had his salary docked.
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  • lukieboy96
    lukieboy96 Posts: 666 Forumite
    Cancel their cards and make them use their own money!! This government is a joke. ?their money could help those disabled people who have lost their independent living allowance. Sick of this government
  • tomtom256
    tomtom256 Posts: 2,250 Forumite
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    lukieboy96 wrote: »
    Cancel their cards and make them use their own money!! This government is a joke. ?their money could help those disabled people who have lost their independent living allowance. Sick of this government

    How it's not set aside for that.

    Lets go to discussion time!
  • System
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    bloolagoon wrote: »
    Are we just bashing IDS or other MP's

    Others to have their cards suspended included his Labour opposite number Rachel Reeves, who owed £4,033.63 at the time.

    Shadow business minister Toby Perkins was subject to action when he owed £693.30.

    Health minister Ben Gummer had his card stopped with £1,290.07 outstanding, defence minister Mark Lancaster had a £600 tab, and former universities minister David Willetts owed £1,172.05.

    Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Joyce, who assaulted a fellow MP in a Commons bar, had his card blocked when he owed £12,919.61, and later had his salary docked.
    Surely if this happened at a private company the person would lose their job? :eek: Yet MP's seem to keep doing it!
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  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    Op have you got a link to the story ?
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  • tommix
    tommix Posts: 41,256 Forumite
    bloolagoon wrote: »
    Are we just bashing IDS

    Hopefully...
  • Mersey_2
    Mersey_2 Posts: 1,679 Forumite
    blondebubbles wrote: »
    What's this got to do with benefit entitlement?



    I'd usually agree, but they are benefits paid out of public funds.


    A sense of entitlement rather than contribution-based, obviously.
    Please be polite to OPs and remember this is a site for Claimants and Appellants to seek redress against their bank, ex-boss or retailer. If they wanted morality or the view of the IoD or Bank they'd ask them.
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