Why Is This Allowed?

[Ann]

I thought you had to be available for work at all times whilst on benefits? I know I was - the 5 months I was unemployed. She is abusing the benefits system. I wish I could afford to go abroad on my pension!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2619004/Benefits-Streets-White-Dee-enjoys-champagne-break-Majorca-appear-Magaluf-pool-party-shes-sick-work.html#comments

[anneasquith]

mamy...............you don't look depressed or anxious LOL/

[kvalidir]

Do you know her personally Divebuddy or have you just watched that TV programme she was in and read the Daily Mail?

[DrFilth]

i am in the next caravan to you Mamyalynne here at skegness can you lend me a 50 pence piece for the leccy

[Mamyalynne]

I'll send my Agent round Dr F. :-)

[anneasquith]

to compare this lady with peter Sutcliffe is just ridiculous.

[anneasquith]

im away, ;0

[Baldric]

I don't think comparison with P S is right but she's had more than her 15 minutes of fame, so is on a par with, er um, comm'on help me out here people,

[sherrardk]

She's milking her fifteen minutes of fame, if she has defrauded the benefits system then I am pretty sure she will get caught out (she's hardly being sneaky about it). But then some people would hate to miss the opportunity to give people receiving benefits a good old kicking.

[tamborine]

Ofcourse theyre are benefit worthies but Dee isnt one. Nor is my todays client & 6m preggars partner that used our toilet to snort up at TPayers expense.

Methinks the TPs are the ones being kicked.

[Baldric]

As always.

[Mamyalynne]

Well, maybe at Dee's next Benefit review the DWP will have a rethink - they have had ample time now, she is not secretive after all.

[Svejk]

I don't think, though I could be wrong, that sickness benefit is 'means tested'. so you could have millions in the bank and still receive them.

[hc4361]

You're right, Svejk, incapacity benefit, disability living allowance and the new equivalents aren't means tested, but this woman also gets housing and council tax benefits which are means tested.

[Svejk]

I thought that. I have a mate who won quite a bit on the lottery and kept receiving his sick pay. As you say, he lost his HB and Council Tax allowance.
There's a famous case of a multi-millionaire, one of the leading NH horse owners, who receives £160 a week and claims a)he's entitled to it b)he gives it to a family member who 'needs it'.