I bet it was a shit holiday. Imagine taking a 10 month old baby round the world. What's supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime trip most undoubtedly turned into a procession of airports, while dragging a crying, jet-lagged, disorientated baby around. My idea of hell!
I work and I can't go on holiday, my honeymoon last year was the first time I had been on holiday abroad in nearly 20 years. So seeing someone claim benefits and go on a holiday that I can only dream of right now pisses me off somewhat.
And maybe she should ask the father(a professional Rugby player apparently) to support the child, I read the other day she doesn't feel that she needs to ask him because the state can pay for it instead.
She is only doing what thousands of young mothers do and realises that being a stay at home mum and claiming benefits makes more financial sense than working full-time and paying for childcare. However unlike a lot of women she wants to go back into work when the child is old enough, rather then live a life on benefits. I don't begrudge a mother taking a few years out of a 40 year work career to spend time with the child.
All the people justifying her are either lazy unemployed slobs or simply lack intelligence - or is it the same thing?
Strangely enough, those that simply reply with a knee-jerk "benefits = scroungers, m'kay" response are the ones lacking in intelligence. If you condone OR justify this story and can provide some kind of justification then that's fine, but a simple, "IT'S BAD" is utterly pointless (as is simply saying it's fine).
I work and I can't go on holiday, my honeymoon last year was the first time I had been on holiday abroad in nearly 20 years. So seeing someone claim benefits and go on a holiday that I can only dream of right now pisses me off somewhat.
And maybe she should ask the father(a professional Rugby player apparently) to support the child, I read the other day she doesn't feel that she needs to ask him because the state can pay for it instead.
This is what I never get.
Why should anyone pay taxes for her benefits if the father of the child contributes nothing?
Well the DWP or the courts have not managed to get him to pay, so if the legal system cannot its not her fault
Have they tried?
"However, she does not receive any money from her daughter's father, a professional rugby player she met in Rome but now lives in Australia, saying she asked him not to pay maintenance because she doesn't need it.
"However, she does not receive any money from her daughter's father, a professional rugby player she met in Rome but now lives in Australia, saying she asked him not to pay maintenance because she doesn't need it.
There are no conditions surrounding what she should spend the money on, so who cares?
Besides, to go to all the places she did with just £3,000 seems quite frugal and far from a holiday of a lifetime if you ask me! My wife and I are off to Vegas again in May - just the hotel and flights alone will cost nearly £3k for a one-week stay!
There are no conditions surrounding what she should spend the money on, so who cares?
Besides, to go to all the places she did with just £3,000 seems quite frugal and far from a holiday of a lifetime if you ask me! My wife and I are off to Vegas again in May - just the hotel and flights alone will cost nearly £3k for a one-week stay!
Well evidently a lot of posters on here do care.
Such benefits should pay for essentials not for holidays.
Such benefits should pay for essentials not for holidays.
Nope, that's not how it works, is it? You cannot tell me what to do with the child benefit we receive and neither can I tell you what to do with any benefits you may receive. To be frank, the posters who do care should maybe burst a blood vessel worrying about something more important than what others are spending their own money on.
Besides, it wouldn't be a workable scheme anyway.
What next, NHS only available for essential treatments that aren't self inflicted?
She is only doing what thousands of young mothers do and realises that being a stay at home mum and claiming benefits makes more financial sense than working full-time and paying for childcare. However unlike a lot of women she wants to go back into work when the child is old enough, rather then live a life on benefits. I don't begrudge a mother taking a few years out of a 40 year work career to spend time with the child.
I'm sure a lot of people would agree with you. If I had a choice however, I'd rather not fund a 'holiday if a lifetime' out of my portion of income tax. I'd much rather it went to someone in genuine need.
I kind of thought that was what benefits were meant to be about.
And where does the government get that money from?
You're both wrong. It's her money......very much like if I gave you £50 for your birthday and you spent it on **** and booze, I can't really say "cough, that's my money you're spending!!".
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And maybe she should ask the father(a professional Rugby player apparently) to support the child, I read the other day she doesn't feel that she needs to ask him because the state can pay for it instead.
How do you work that out.
Strangely enough, those that simply reply with a knee-jerk "benefits = scroungers, m'kay" response are the ones lacking in intelligence. If you condone OR justify this story and can provide some kind of justification then that's fine, but a simple, "IT'S BAD" is utterly pointless (as is simply saying it's fine).
That's rather ironic coming from you
This is what I never get.
Why should anyone pay taxes for her benefits if the father of the child contributes nothing?
Is it my responsibility or his (and hers)?
Well the DWP or the courts have not managed to get him to pay, so if the legal system cannot its not her fault
Have they tried?
"However, she does not receive any money from her daughter's father, a professional rugby player she met in Rome but now lives in Australia, saying she asked him not to pay maintenance because she doesn't need it.
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This!
Well i tend to believe facts, not what the newspapers say. http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-30955060&ei=CRjuVK3WOOmX7AaTzoCwAQ&usg=AFQjCNGKWLApAXsFkYsGp5NL5oymYKdZJg&bvm=bv.86956481,d.ZGU&cad=rja Also it is very difficult and in a lot of debt cases no chance of recovering money from someone who does not live in this country.
Agreed
And to add to that I hope she had a good time
Besides, to go to all the places she did with just £3,000 seems quite frugal and far from a holiday of a lifetime if you ask me! My wife and I are off to Vegas again in May - just the hotel and flights alone will cost nearly £3k for a one-week stay!
Well it is a fact that lots of parents don't pay maintenance but this doesn't answer whether anyone has tried to get the father to pay in this case.
It still seems to me that the father isn't and therefore we have to.
Well evidently a lot of posters on here do care.
Such benefits should pay for essentials not for holidays.
Well unless its changed the DWP used to try, but in cases like this were the person does not live in the uk, they have no powers at all.
Her parents were helping her out by thier own free choice, as when someone turns 18 parents have no leagl duty to surpport their children
Nope, that's not how it works, is it? You cannot tell me what to do with the child benefit we receive and neither can I tell you what to do with any benefits you may receive. To be frank, the posters who do care should maybe burst a blood vessel worrying about something more important than what others are spending their own money on.
Besides, it wouldn't be a workable scheme anyway.
What next, NHS only available for essential treatments that aren't self inflicted?
I actually think it's tax payer's money.
you think wrong ..... it's government money
I'm sure a lot of people would agree with you. If I had a choice however, I'd rather not fund a 'holiday if a lifetime' out of my portion of income tax. I'd much rather it went to someone in genuine need.
I kind of thought that was what benefits were meant to be about.
And where does the government get that money from?
You're both wrong. It's her money......very much like if I gave you £50 for your birthday and you spent it on **** and booze, I can't really say "cough, that's my money you're spending!!".