Mother of 8 kids can't survive on £2,000 a month benefits

[Diablo]

Mother of 8 kids can't survive on £2,000 a month benefits....Sadly she has survived or it would be a different headline..

 

[Hampster Gull]

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[Ernest]

He's GOT too DEGREES. His SEPELING is obviously IRONYONIC.

I like the FREE Degrees BEST

 

[Guinness Boy]

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ditto then (Edit)

 

[Hampster Gull]

i like the free degrees best

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[Guinness Boy]

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[Tight shorts]

So NooBHA - Is 40K for doing a full time 24/7 job of bring up 2 of someone else's children really so high?

Ok so assuming you have to give up your job to take on this role, that's a loss of your net salary - say 20k per year assuming an average wage

Extra cost of upgrading to say a 3 bed house from a one bed property so that you have room for the 2 kids - could easily add another 200k on to a mortgage round these parts. Interest on 200K a year at say 4% is 8K. Cost of food, clothing, holidays, extra heat and light, presents, school trips etc is many more thousands per year.

You're probably dealing with some really troubled kids, mental and physical health issues, having to deal with their birth families as well as undertake training and constant liaison with Social Services and other agencies. Is 40K net really so high? I don't think HMRC pluck the tax free allowances out of thin air - they look at the true costs of raising kids and agree the limits in line with that. If being a foster carer is such an easy and lucrative job why are there adverts everywhere appealing for foster carers? Just a thought.

 

[The Spanish]

Getting to live in Oz from the UK is not for those at the bottom of society though is it?

Very much used to be

 

[Hampster Gull]

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Easy for you to say

 

[pastafarian]

Doesnt matter if you are filthy rich or filthy poor

Bringing 8 kids into the world is bloody obscene.

Its the elephant in the room no one wants to discuss

 

[BadFish]

Doesnt matter if you are filthy rich or filthy poor

Bringing 8 kids into the world is bloody obscene.

Its the elephant in the room no one wants to discuss

Quite right this. Overpopulation is a massive global problem that is so often ignored. I concede I am a massive hypocrite on this one but in my defence i didn't really think this through at the time (when the Australian money were giving people money to breed so we didn't have to let anyone else in) and now I just can't decide which of my kids to get rid of.

 

[El Presidente]

Listen mate I only know these rules because someone came into my office for tax advice on this scenario. I didn't even know the riles on this and when I realised she was receiving 45K tax free for looking after 2 babies That's about £65K before tax and NIC I wanted to go out and take on 2 kids myself coz that's wot I earn after 30 years in employment and 2 University degrees so please don't try an tell me that a bar of soap and water to wash a child to make them clean warrants £65K per year in salary. Nurses bed bath 100 people a month for less. I did say in my previous post that I admire foster carers and I am the most left wing social thinker you will find and I don't get angry at much but your post pissed me right off

You've two degrees and that's the standard of English you produce?

Were the degrees in Serving at McDonald's and David Beckham Studies?

 

[El Presidente]

Its the elephant in the room no one wants to discuss

Are we back to discussing the state of the mother's pissflaps after dropping eight nippers again?

 

[Hampster Gull]

Quite right this. Overpopulation is a massive global problem that is so often ignored. I concede I am a massive hypocrite on this one but in my defence i didn't really think this through at the time (when the Australian money were giving people money to breed so we didn't have to let anyone else in) and now I just can't decide which of my kids to get rid of.

Go for the ugliest

 

[Justice]

There is no law in this country that states how many children one person can have therefore she is entitled to benefits. The irony is we are paying millions to kids that have never stepped foot in this country. Your pitch forks are pointing in the wrong direction

 

[Hampster Gull]

There is no law in this country that states how many children one person can have therefore she is entitled to benefits. The irony is we are paying millions to kids that have never stepped foot in this country. Your pitch forks are pointing in the wrong direction

Its the level of benefits that is being disputed.

 

[Justice]

Its the level of benefits that is being disputed.

Bollocks its a chance for the keyboard warriors to abuse a single mother who didn't make up the rules

 

[wellquickwoody]

There is no law in this country that states how many children one person can have therefore she is entitled to benefits. The irony is we are paying millions to kids that have never stepped foot in this country. Your pitch forks are pointing in the wrong direction

Set foot, set foot.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Not easy to take someone seriously who says coz and wot

Indeed ..... one wonders what those two degrees were in !!! I also have to snigger at his use of the word 'thinker'

 

[Hastings gull]

Bollocks its a chance for the keyboard warriors to abuse a single mother who didn't make up the rules

You are quite right in that she did not make up the rules, but that is irrelevant, surely. She and thousands like her have found out that benefits are easy to come by in that situation, when children are involved and is clearly milking the system. They know that children deserve to be supported, as it is not the child's fault that they are born to a single parent. Where is the father in all of this? Cleared off, as usual, knowing the benefits will be doled out. I suppose it boils down to what extent you think that folk on benefits should be financially helped. Would you be happy, for example, if your neighbour, who had no intention of working, and perhaps ridiculed you for setting out to work each day, enjoyed exactly the same standard of living as you do due to the benefits system?