The Greed of Welfare Claimants
Meercam
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This story tells us so much about the mindset of a section of welfare claimants.
George Grant certainly puts the I into entItlement, complaining how he's losing some of his handouts because of a twenty thousand pounds lotttery win. Despite not having worked for over thirty years because of a mobility problem George was suddenly rejuvenated enough to plan to travel to Nashville, Tennessee, for a well earned holiday . After twenty year of gambling his taxpayer funded DLA on the National Lottery he now rues his misfortune
Cue the welfare tag team.....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815521/Disabled-Lottery-winner-wishes-never-won-20-000-prize-benefits-cut.html
George Grant certainly puts the I into entItlement, complaining how he's losing some of his handouts because of a twenty thousand pounds lotttery win. Despite not having worked for over thirty years because of a mobility problem George was suddenly rejuvenated enough to plan to travel to Nashville, Tennessee, for a well earned holiday . After twenty year of gambling his taxpayer funded DLA on the National Lottery he now rues his misfortune
He obviously believes he should keep the money, go on holiday and them come back to resume collecting his benefits. With so many George's around it's little wonder the public support the clampdown on welfare.I wish I'd never won this money, the hassle it has caused me. I won't be buying a ticket again.
Cue the welfare tag team.....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815521/Disabled-Lottery-winner-wishes-never-won-20-000-prize-benefits-cut.html
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If he has genuine mobility problems why not spend £4000 on a good quality electric wheelchair to help him get out and about and he mentions debts, those would be legitimate expenditure.
Clearly. "Evil Benefit Claimant Viciously Does The Lottery".
Do you understand the concept of mobility problems ?. It doesn't mean "paralysed".
Yes, damn him for wanting to take a chance of a better life.
The Tory Fanboys support the clampdown on welfare. Normal people with souls don't.
Anyway, I can't see why he can't give £4k away. But then he's clearly been too honest for his own good by declaring the money. If he'd given away £5k before that, he could have simply declared £15k and probably not had these problems.
Nice to see your obsession with targeting all welfare claimants as scrounges continues.
Where's your outrage on tax dodgers Meercam?
Stop his benefits for the length of time he would have received 20 grand and then start them again. You don't need benefits when you've got 20 grand in the bank
Where's your thread on tax dodgers so I can contribute?
Yet being loaded with cash never stop david cameron multi millionaire claiming BENEFITS did it. So how this government has any room to talk about entitlement culture is just laughable
So you don't actually know about the tax system then?
I'm not surprised.
Or the worst vermin Tory of them all, Iain Duncan-Smith, being 'entitled' to put in claims of £39 for breakfasts
Everyone knows that only fit and healthy working people should win!
It's an outrage! Anyone would think that the lottery is a... lottery.
Good luck to the fella.
According to the article he also now isn't entitled to benefits he wasn't getting in the first place!
Oh and apparently now ' possibly visiting Nashville ' is the same as ' planning a trip to Nashville'!
I completely agree he should lose his means tested benefits, and that he will have to prove that he hasn't spent the difference without reasonable expenditure.
But really all this DM article is saying is that George Grant realises the same......it wasn't worth it! He hasn't whinged that he's been hard done to!
So complete fail on the OP's part, without even mentioning the thread title!
Poor George is unhappy he can't use his new found wealth and mobility to travel to Nashville.
It's incredible how people like George suddenly improve their mobility when they win some money.
The more they win, the more mobile they become.
You could be working full-time and qualify, as long as you don't have more than £16k savings.
The point is it's paid to cover extra costs you have because of your condition. So when they've deemed he's down to that limit again (over a reasonable space of time, not just a couple of dozen rounds down the pub and a new X-Box), he'll be just as entitled as anyone else to claim it again.
Not his fault. That's the rules. Easy pickings for the outraged without a clue though ...
Normal people do support these clampdowns.
Only bleeding hearts do not. A bleeding heart doth not a soul maketh.
Yeah, Yeah!
Have you actually read the article in full? I think not!
Does it say he has no longer got mobilty problems, are people with mobilty problems 100% housebound, Dont people with mobilty problems come to the uk, from other counties to have a holiday. Seems you dont know what a mobilty problem is. And he will still be getting his DLA as that is a non means tested disabilty benefit, that is why even david cameron with all his millions in the bank got DLA, and decided to sit down and fill the forms out so he could claim DLA, because he was entitled to this benefit
Having read the article in the Daily Mail there is no evidence of any greed from Mr Grant, who has followed the correct procedures following his win. The reason that he is not happy is because the amount of the win is only just above the means testing limit and therefore he will have to go through the hassle of putting in new claims in a few months' time.
This is yet another epic fail by the op. Believe it or not disabled people can use aeroplanes these days so, with the right help, some are able to travel.
Good luck to Mr Grant who is clearly one of the overwhelming majority of welfare claimants that is honest and follows the rules.
I know some people think that trolls should be banned but this type of desperate, highly inaccurate thread is pure comedy gold in my book
Of course, these days it's PIP.
The £16k savings applies to means-tested benefits only.