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  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Melissa177 wrote: »
    They seemed to have three cars as well - I don't even have one!

    If they didn't have a car, how would they get to the shops to buy their fags?

    Do try to keep up Melissa.
  • dolce_vita
    dolce_vita Posts: 1,031 Forumite
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    #1. The people that run these "sell your house and rent back" companies are generally lying thieves and are best avoided

    #2. This time next year house prices in general will be lower than they are now

    #3. Cheap houses are a good thing not a bad thing
  • Biggie
    Biggie Posts: 370 Forumite
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    supersavershal wrote: »
    Why doesnt the daughter go out and get a job and help to pay the mortgage.

    Come on....


    That means they can protentially lose some Benefits, milk tokens, free medical & dental care, free travel if in London.

    now that's what I call money saving :money:
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Biggie wrote: »
    Come on....


    That means they can protentially lose some Benefits, milk tokens, free medical & dental care, free travel if in London.

    now that's what I call money saving :money:

    And if you play you cards right, after a lifetime of indolence, you get a pension too! And tax credits to top it up as if you'd saved £1/4million over your lifetime.
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,082 Forumite
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    Anybody here actually fancy living off benefits :confused:
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • m00m00
    m00m00 Posts: 1,755 Forumite
    the cars will have probably been paid for by motability benefit
    It's a health benefit ...
  • mystic_trev
    mystic_trev Posts: 5,434 Forumite
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    m00m00 wrote: »
    the cars will have probably been paid for by motability benefit

    and that's been open to Fraud
    The scam operates by wheelchair-users ordering exclusive vehicles, usually available only on a waiting list, and making a minor modification, such as adding a knob on the steering wheel. The modification is then removed and the vehicle is sold at an instant profit of several thousand pounds, while undercutting the showroom retail price.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2141854.ece
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    Anybody here actually fancy living off benefits :confused:

    Not personally but millions do, clearly.
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,082 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    Not personally but millions do, clearly.

    I appreciate that Generali, and it doesn't please me, but we're taking the michael out of a couple of people who need to use mobility scooters here and semi-accusing them of living the high life :confused: I'll get flamed for being pc or whatever but it just doesn't seem right with what look like a genuinely vulnerable couple.

    I'm getting flamed for being non-pc on another thread anyway, so I guess I'm even :D
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    Anybody here actually fancy living off benefits :confused:
    Depends which ones, some seem quite lucrative.
    But you need to be in a position to leverage it to the max. So right house, right area, right access to transport/services - maximise your freebies (courses, travel etc).
    Then get the right bennies too.

    No point doing it and being single, in a cold, damp private bedsit, in a 6-house hamlet with 1 bus a week and nothing for 20 miles.
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