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Should there be a maximum limit on benefits?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15808922
It is proposed that the present limit is curtailed to a maximum of £500 per week or equivalent to £35,000 a year gross.
It is proposed that the present limit is curtailed to a maximum of £500 per week or equivalent to £35,000 a year gross.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'd worked all my life up to 2001 when I had a stroke, since then I've been on disability and I'd love to know how people get this sort of money. I get disability living allowance motability and that's it. Not only that but every time my pension from the Coal Board goes up my benefits get reduced. It really pisses me off that people who have never paid into the system can reputedly get all these benefits and people like myself who worked all there life and paid in can get flump all when they need it.
Yes I do actually. The problem with massive benefit payouts occurs not generally because people are playing the system although some are without a doubt, it is because of the way the housing market has changed since the inception of the idea of helping people with their rent. As someone else said on here it's usually about 50% cheaper to buy a house than to rent one. Couple that with a lack of decent social housing and you get a sceanario where rents are sky hight and the majority of large payments go on paying that via housing benefit/ council tax benefit. You can't simply demand that poor and / or disadvanataged families up and leave nice areas or you create ghettos and we've been 200 years escaping that sort of social inequality. What's the answer to this? Build more affordable social housing, tell anyone claiming benefit that if they work on Govt proposed schemes they will be granted a mortgage to buy their own home, and see how many people stay on benefits then. It's true there is little incentive to work as people are not much better off, so don't show them a stick, resettle them in some benefit claiming claiming ghetto they, and more importantly their children will never get out of, instead give them a carrot to make working really worthwhile for them and their children.
I was born in Belfast and lived in London for 20 years Em, I know precisely the problems of inner city areas, hence my point of view. As soon as you normalise bad things they do indeed become normal. Will she ever work Drfilth- dunno the hypothetical young lady concerend, but your post does prove that she aspires to something- so let her get it with her own hard work, achieve some self respect and slide her off benefits that way. If you cap things, make people lives even harder than they are you will have a nightmare on your hands.
The trouble is ummmm is that if you're like myself and a lot of people of my age who are in this position is that the very fact you worked all your life tends to be against you. It's a case of "oh you own your own house you can't claim that, Oh , you've got more then £xxxxxx savings you can't claim that etc etc" The fact that you now have no income at all other then your pension and your savings are gradually been eaten away just to keep my lady and I in a reasonable lifestyle doesn't matter. It makes you wander if it was worth it
em I'm sorry to say that the majority of S.S. staf I've had dealings with would drop straight into Adolfs gang.If it hadn't been for the very helpful people at the local C.A.B, especially the young lady they fetched in to fill all the forms in for me, I probably wouldn't be getting the pittance I am getting.
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