How do u feel about people on benifits?

Question

I have nothing against people on benifits but it annoys me how people work and have 2 pay taxes so money can go to other families when the parents are very capable to work. In some circumstances fare enough but otherwise get off your **** lol.
My mum worked out with what she earns and after paying it all off she is actually better on benifits.
What do you feel about this?.... am i wrong?
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Answer 1

I know of a local family where the mum and dad both claim invalidity benefit - neither work. They own two houses - both bought on the 'buy cheaply from the council' scheme - one of which they're fixing up to sell. They're never short of money.

Another lady I know has eight kids (the man in her life comes and goes) - she 'earns' almost as much as I do. Another lady that I used to known used her benefit money to fly to the states twice a year.

It pisses me off. If someone genuinely cannot get onto their feet then they need help. The same for any number of serious psychological conditions. I have no qualms whatsoever about my tax money helping out someone who needs medical attention or is severely depressed. I'd certainly appreciate the money if I was ever in their position. For everyone else on benefits - there's litter in our local parks and beaches - could they not spend two hours a week doing something for the good of the community in exchange for this money?

Answer 2

Benefits are for people who need them and they are welcome to them but too many people abuse the system.

The government encourages people not to work, My sister who is a teacher was told not to work as they would pay her more than she is currently earning.

The government needs to limit the time that people can stay on unemployment benefit, people are signing on at 18 and never working a day in there life. I would give everyone 6 months and an extra 3 month for every year worked.

Disabled people would be checked more often, how many people get this benefit and then still work? Can someone in a wheelchair really not work, ever heard of a desk job?

I would also only pay benefit for two children, if the parent wants more fine but they would only receive money for two, almost complete stopping the 16 kids - 8 fathers - 1 mother £40K a year benefits that are currently paid.

matthew w & hamster - you both manage to own a pc and internet, which is not free, and live on the dole.

Answer 3

We pay far to much tax so that far to much money can be given out on benefits. my in-laws are both on benefits and get a free car.He smokes like a train and they both go on four to five holidays a year. Now can anyone tell me that is right. THAT IS NOT WHAT BENEFITS WHERE SET UP FOR. My gran had to go out to work and leave my mum who was very young to look after her brothers and sisters to feed them because there was no benefits and my grandad was killed in the war.
The government needs to limit the time that people can stay on unemployment benefit, people are signing on at 18 and never working a day in there life. I would give everyone 6 months to get a job that's all. I manage a butchers shop and we get young people coming for jobs that you know the job market has sent and they don't want the job and have no interest at all. Make it that if they are leaving school and don't have a job lined up they must do national service for five to six years. They might be better people when they come out, and it sorts out the shortage of men in the armed services and probably law and order to.

Answer 4

I am on benefits as a carer and a single parent. I'm also at uni - which is why I have a computer and internet. When I finish my course, they will have to go. I had a good job but had to give it up to become a carer.

It is all very well to say that people living in cities and large towns could find work but not everyone does. I live on the coast and there is very little work here - even summer work is limited. Unless you can afford to move, finding work is much much harder. It is very difficult. To move to find work you have to have work to be able to afford it.

I agree that in an area where there are lots of jobs, no one who is able to work should not.

Those people with a disability who would love to work find it impossible. Yes, many of them could do a desk job - but how would they get there? In central London it is impossible to use the tube - even those with lifts have stairs at platform level and busses are very difficult to deal with as well.

Because I am around alot in the town during the day, I know alot of people on benefits and only know of a couple out of the many who it could be said were scroungers. The rest are either ill, carers like me or are trying to get work but there is none available. Even the McDonalds is out of town so you can only do a job there if you have transport for those late shifts!

If you are not disabled, have been properly educated and brought up and are lucky to have a job that pays a living wage, be grateful and stop sniping at those whose life has not been as fruitful!

Answer 5

I recently watched two movies that are based on true stories: Cinderella Man and The Pursuit of Happyness. In the first movie, James Braddock did EVERYTHING he could to keep his family off the dole, but it was the great depression, and he got help when all his best efforts were not enough. He later PAID THE MONEY BACK.

In The Pursuit of Happyness, the man had to sacrifice and compete under unbelieveable circumstances, made it by going through the private charity route and through his own wits.

I felt good about these two examples. I feel terrible about able bodied people who crank out kids and then argue that daycare costs too much, and they only have an education to work a minimum wage job. These people are very frustrating.

Answer 6

if disabled fair enough, but i'm sure most disabled people do work or want to if the circumstances were different. single parents fair enough most cant afford private child care. 2 parents both capable of working but claiming every benefit going and cheating the system, i've seen unemployed parents both claiming disablity when theres nothing wrong with them, free car ect. id love to have them down a ditch with me to see what crap i have to put of with to earn a living. when i was a kid i was told if i have have nothing to do then find something to do, anybody out of work on the dole and fit and healthy should be given jobs in the community , cleaning the streets ect for a proper wage not the crap money the dole pays. my street hasnt been cleaned for over a month even though we pay rates,i see its a lot of unemployed corner louts making the mess, they should be made to clean it up.

Answer 7

People should only get benefits for a limited time - say a month. That is plenty of time to find another job.
The benefits and tax systems should be sortedout in such a way that you would always be better off by working.

One way of doing this is not to pay benefits in cash but in shopping vouchers which can only be spent on food (not alcohol or cigarettes). Rent and utility bills paid straight to the landlord or utility company.

Answer 8

I worked from leaving school until i was 30 and started a family...ended up as a homeless divorced single parent on benefits running from domestic violence

Did not want child minders raising my kids and no employer was interested in employing someone who needed every school holiday off. I had all my confidence knocked out of me as well

So i spent 7 years on a total weekly benefit income of £76 to feed my kids..keep us warm and survive as best we could

I spent all those 7 years studying and volunteering whilst raising my kids alone. I now earn £24,000 per year and claim nothing.

I have nothing against benefit claimants...i dont give a damn that my taxes go a little way to them. In fact my job is defending claimants in the appeal courts.

What i am against is people who have never been in a situation but have to judge all the same.

You never know whats around the corner Maybe one day i will be supporting you??

Answer 9

I have a mental ilness so there for get benifits does that make me lazy and better off than you.

As all i get is £90 a week and thats for food electricy and other bills. At the end of the week i am left with about £10 to myself.

I want to work but my ilness hinders me in a big way.

Answer 10

Hi Hun, no your not wrong, a lot of people take the mickey out of the system, some people are genuine, the system is there to help people, it winds me up because i am registered disabled and i am better of getting benefits rather than working but i dont want to do that, with the influx of imigrants now and they work for less than we would expect it makes it harder for people who are from the uk to get well paid jobs, so like you say they may aswell get benefits, the goverment have messed up with the amount of immigrants coming into the country and they are being used as cheap labour, i am not racist but this situation is pushing people onto bennefits. regarding your mum, tell her to enquire about tax credits because she might be eligable for them.