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500quid max a week cap on benefits!
mills705
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I'm only 24 and earn 15000 a year before tax. This equates to 1100 take home after. I get commission but it's a couple of hundred a month.
Now 500 a week equates to 2250 a month in the pocket of claimants pockets. A lot more than I am on!
I can't get why they are complaining! It's nearly double my money and they don't even do any work for it!
It's my hard earned cash going in their back pockets!
This attitude of living off the state saddens me. Get up and do some work!!
Now 500 a week equates to 2250 a month in the pocket of claimants pockets. A lot more than I am on!
I can't get why they are complaining! It's nearly double my money and they don't even do any work for it!
It's my hard earned cash going in their back pockets!
This attitude of living off the state saddens me. Get up and do some work!!
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The main reason there are so many unemployed in this country is mass immigration, which was done deliberately to import cheap foreign labour and drive down wages, thereby increasing the profits of the very rich.
There are 5 times as many unemployed people as there are vacancies, so it would be impossible for them all to 'get up and and do some work'.
Recessions are caused by the rich not by the poor; the poor don't have the power to influence the economy. This current economic downturn was caused by the greed of bankers and hedge-fund managers, and yet amazingly we look to punish the unemployed and disabled for mistakes made by the capitalist barons.
It's not unless there are disabilities and other stuff weighing in, wouldn't get 1500 including council tax and housing
That's £3343.60 a year!
This is higher or equivalent to the average national wage. Nobody should work for a living.
Yes I think he is. Unless there are any disability benefits being paid together with the main benefits then that figure sounds very high to me.
I'd also be interested to see how that is made up!
A close mate of mine was recently made redundant from his job, he now gets a whopping £70 per week. Bit of a change from his previous salary of around the £55,000 mark.
Like being seriously disabled and unable to work, for example.
Workers also are entitled to claim some benefits and tax credits too.
To those complaining about the cap, what do you think it should be? I suspect there will be people out there praying one day it'll be £0 a week.
Again, people are taking one extreme example (ie. like with Heather Frost at the weekend) and declaring it the norm for everyone on benefits.
The reality is that the Benefit Cap will mainly affect larger families or those living in areas with high rental costs as this amount also includes housing costs. £500 pw is the maximum amount for a couple or lone parent; the amount for a single person is £350 pw inclusive of housing costs.
I've understood recently that median pay in the UK was around £26,000 before tax. On the BBC News tonight £500pw was referred to as the "average after tax".
They interviewed a woman with three children, who's "only" getting £613 a week from the taxpayer. That's £31, 998, presumably untaxed. No mention of how much she's getting from the childrens' father(s).
I also noticed that there was an ashtray with a single cigarette end in - hers or the interviewer's?
Is not rent/council tax paid?
All the free dentistry/opticians/prescriptions?
Why don't you include that?
A week? I'm sure that was per month.
Well done on swallowing the government bullshit that demonises the unemployed and disabled.
Which those of us who are working (or retired) have to pay from taxed income. The fact that some of the money goes on primary living expenses, even directly, doesn't alter the fact that it's all income.
No, sadly.
The one is on low-rate DLA for personal reasons, but in all honestly there is nothing wrong other than lazy parent not looking after the little one, and the specialist at the centre even told her that too.
With the Halifax tells you how much each month you had going into the account and it was the £1,500 in benefits.
With Birmingham council as it was council house, they get that paid direct, you just get your statement showing it has been paid and there is nothing for you to pay.
So, yeah, it's the £1,500 plus the rent and council tax.
That's why she was abroad 4 - 5 times a year, in fact she's off again in a couple of days all-inclusive.