Cash benefits or Food stamps?

[Seat Stealer]

You don't think the new tests the sick have to go through to get benefits are tough enough? Have you seen how many fail and how many have died after being forced back to work? Do you think it's easy to get benefits right now?

Then why have so many unemployed people got so much spare cash to spend on luxuries? Was the welfare state designed to avoid hardship? Surely, more genuine claimants would not have too be subjected to this medical analysis if so many where not scamming it. The welfare benefit is designed to maintain life, not supplement a smoking, drinking or gambling habit whilst enjoying Mr Kyle on a 50inch TV.

 

[Seat Stealer]

Congratulations its only taken you 121 posts to write such self deluded moralising crap, that I really have no desire to hear another word you say, and add you to my ignore list.

Obviously a liberal goody goody or long term waster....grateful to be ignored

 

[martyn20]

Wrong target. Genuine unemployed will need extra money for job interviews etc. Its the 2 million increase in those who receive disability benefit since the 80's who are really milking the system.

Which disabled people would like to see off benefits, any illnesses in particular you have a problem with?

 

[looney]

Which disabled people would like to see off benefits, any illnesses in particular you have a problem with?

Well I know a couple round here who both claim to have a "bad back", although this doesn't prevent either going down the pub to piss their £100 plus a week benefits up the wall.

 

[Butch Willykins]

I think surrendering a passport should be compulsory in order to receive benefits.

Nothing pisses me off more than seeing people on benefits sodding off on holiday abroad.

 

[Seat Stealer]

Which disabled people would like to see off benefits, any illnesses in particular you have a problem with?

I believe my original question was cash or food stamps, was it not?

 

[looney]

I think surrendering a passport should be compulsory in order to receive benefits.

Nothing pisses me off more than seeing people on benefits sodding off on holiday abroad.

So you dont want them to get a job overseas either?

 

[desprateseagull]

(most of) the he unemployed are NOT criminals. stop treating them as such.

 

[martyn20]

Well I know a couple round here who both claim to have a "bad back", although this doesn't prevent either going down the pub to piss their £100 plus a week benefits up the wall.

You know what their condition is exactly and what benefits they are on of course, you could only comment on your neighbours lives if you knew all the details, right?

 

[martyn20]

I believe my original question was cash or food stamps, was it not?

Please read the post I was replying to......

 

[martyn20]

I think surrendering a passport should be compulsory in order to receive benefits.

Nothing pisses me off more than seeing people on benefits sodding off on holiday abroad.

So no matter if they have saved a little out of their benefits for maybe a year or more, they should still not be allowed to have a holiday?

 

[Seat Stealer]

(most of) the he unemployed are NOT criminals. stop treating them as such.

I don't believe I mentioned CRIMINALS, just want to know if you think its right that benefits should be used for luxuries?

 

[Seat Stealer]

So no matter if they have saved a little out of their benefits for maybe a year or more, they should still not be allowed to have a holiday?

If you can save benefits....you don't need them, or at least so much.

 

[looney]

I believe my original question was cash or food stamps, was it not?

food stamps will not only add another stigma but if they can not be used online could raise the cost of living for the poor, which already happens with key meter gas and electricity.

IMO you cant have a crackdown on unemployed while you have an open door immigration policy as the unemployed will always be undercut. This has already happened.

You want the benefits role reduced? Make companies desperate enough to take them on by shutting the door for a few years, then have a crackdown.

 

[Butch Willykins]

So no matter if they have saved a little out of their benefits for maybe a year or more, they should still not be allowed to have a holiday?

No. Sorry.

Can I have my tax code tweaked and my contributions reduced so I can save a little extra for a holiday?

Thought not.

 

[cammac]

The rate of benefit at the moment is about £70 per week for a Adult, i can`t see how that can be excessive.. Maybe tax credits should be scrapped too and replaced with food vouchers or help on housing benefit for low earners scrapped being that you could go get a second job, privatize the NHS imagine the money saved then. One way or another a lot of people are receiving a benefit of some kind, aay forgot about child benefit imagine the money saved on that one!

 

[looney]

You know what their condition is exactly and what benefits they are on of course, you could only comment on your neighbours lives if you knew all the details, right?

Yea right, i do know them THAT well. One even claims every illness he can and sells the prescription drugs like viagra and PK's on the quiet.

 

[martyn20]

If you can save benefits....you don't need them, or at least so much.

We pay our taxes so if we get sick or become unemployed the welfare system helps us, the system does not extend to demanding you only buy certain items and not others and it never will thank god.

 

[martyn20]

Yea right, i do know them THAT well. One even claims every illness he can and sells the prescription drugs like viagra and PK's on the quiet.

And you have reported him? You think everyone on benefits is like this, we are all the same?

 

[Seat Stealer]

The rate of benefit at the moment is about £70 per week for a Adult, i can`t see how that can be excessive.. Maybe tax credits should be scrapped too and replaced with food vouchers or help on housing benefit for low earners scrapped being that you could go get a second job, privatize the NHS imagine the money saved then. One way or another a lot of people are receiving a benefit of some kind, aay forgot about child benefit imagine the money saved on that one!

But, if money is available for smokes and drink etc then the benefit is too much right? Or are we now paying for these too. If benefit is spent on what is intended for then fine, but not for over and above the necessaries.