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Mum spent £3k taxpayers' money on holiday of a lifetime - and doesn't feel guilty
Jason
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/benefits-mum-spent-3k-taxpayers-5207356
This is one of the aspects of the benefit system that need reforming. Better, and more sensible, means testing to prevent situations like this.
I'm obviously not saying she should be denied any assistance, but it should certainly be taken in to account that her parents are fairly affluent and that she's still living with them.
Things like this, as well as means testing the more wealthy pensioners who receive the cold weather payments when they clearly don't need it would likely save a lot more money than you'd probably expect.
Jobless mum Kay Bird has enjoyed a £3,000 round-the-world holiday with her 10-month-old baby funded entirely by *welfare benefits.
Kay, 28, who lives *comfortably at home with her middle-class parents, has just returned with daughter Chloe from a month-long trip to Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Turkey, Greece and the Netherlands.
And the single mum, who gets more than £8,500 a year in child benefit, *income support and tax credit, is already planning another luxury trip to New Zealand.
Kay confesses she could work but chooses not to because she wants to wait until Chloe is older, reports the Sunday People.
And she says she doesn’t really need the benefits – equivalent to over £700 a month – because her mum Jill, a shop manageress, and stepdad Bob, a lawyer, pay for everything.
This is one of the aspects of the benefit system that need reforming. Better, and more sensible, means testing to prevent situations like this.
I'm obviously not saying she should be denied any assistance, but it should certainly be taken in to account that her parents are fairly affluent and that she's still living with them.
Things like this, as well as means testing the more wealthy pensioners who receive the cold weather payments when they clearly don't need it would likely save a lot more money than you'd probably expect.
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How can she be getting tax credits if she's not working?
Sounds like the story is mostly bollocks to me.
She is putting up a virtual two fingers up at hard working people, who work their guts out and still have difficulty making ends meet.
Her indulgent parents have done her no favours.
They should make her work out a budget, and insist on a fair proportion going towards her and her baby's keep.
She said she could work if she wanted to, so YES she did choose to be paid that money.
Just about to post the same thing. Spent just shy of £3k for a week in Iceland. Something's amiss.
No no, I mean that she didn't get to judge if she was deserving of any welfare and she didn't get to set the amount given to her.
If the government handed you 50k in tomorrow you wouldn't question why you'd be too busy spending it.
Save? - it's pocket money.
Her parents keep her and baby.
£3K for a week in the UK
When we go on a UK holiday I'd guess we spend around £700 total. About £300 on a cottage, then the rest is fuel and spends.
Tresco is expensive - but worth it.
I agree. We're paying almost that for a fortnight self catering in Greece and that's before we add on any spending money.
Or the A-Side in the case of Miliband's version.
Yes someone that I used to know tried reporting me to the fraud department, but once the compliance officer visited my home & I showed him all the paperwork, he said that his time had been wasted as no fraud had taken place.
I haven't been abroad since 2009 due to being on benefits, but I look set to be going to Izmir with my Dad for a week at the end of March, yes I am still on benefits, but the holiday itself isn't costing me anything as it is a treat from my Dad, he is now retired and gets some healthy private pensions each month, so decided to go on his first trip abroad since the 90's & he invited me to go with him, all I need to take is money for food & spending money. If the anti benefits peeps don't like that, then they can stick their opinions where the sun doesn't shine.
Child tax credits are paid to umemployed too.
So maybe I'm just jealous...
It's kind of insulting to me when I have to pay just over £400 a month rent! :mad: