Romanian Big Issue seller gets the green light

[DrFilth]

to claim for housing benefit on top of the £25,000 she already claims


how can a person claim for disability if they can stand outside and walk around in the winter time selling the big issue

do you you think the mail makes some of this up ?

>> £49.30 in disability living allowance and £55.50 in
carers’ allowance. <<

>> He said: ‘This is a victory for people struggling to work to
support their families. Anyone who thinks selling The Big
Issue on a British street in winter is a soft option should
have a go themselves.’ <<



http://www.dailymail....tled-28-000-year.html

[emmie]

she is not a lone seller, at least going on the ones i see in London, there are some blokes you see with their dogs for company, but most are eastern european women. I don't give to any now, as i explained, but whether she is a legitimate seller or not, she is here and a drain on the taxpayer, just like hundreds of thousands of others.

DF, some don't see what is under their noses, they only see the law as it stands, and not the sheer unfair treatment of people who have contributed all their lives and still get a raw deal

[hc4361]

Well, many people would complain if anybody and everybody had the right to come to the UK and take our jobs.

[DrFilth]

there are people who need our help and there are scroungers who play the system

she is laughing all the way to the bank

[DrFilth]

>> I came to the UK in 2007 to look for work. The only work I could find was selling the Big Issue on the streets of Bristol. <<

wonder when she found out she could not work here

wonder when she found out she would get a free house

wonder when she found out she would get more money for not working

wonder if her kids will ever want to get a job here

[emmie]

Britain is one big jolly for some, and i am not suggesting there aren't home grown layabouts, scroungers, But this is an outrageous situation, and there are plenty more where she comes from, and from further afield.
Perhaps if we had laws which said you must have a job before coming here, and a place to live, and not rely on state benefits for at least five years, then i would say welcome, but that's not the case. Whilst others who have contributed all along, get nowt.

[flip_flop]

The point is, its bad enough we have to pay for our own wastrels, so its doubly galling that we are giving free money away to people who have come here for no other reason than she knew, as do her countrymen, that she can come here and live in comparative luxury off the backs of those of us who work and pay into the system.

This is just simply wrong and is not fair on those of us who pay (too much) tax.

We do not have a bottomless pit of free money to give to Eastern Europe's waifs and strays.

[emmie]

flip flop, nor anyone else's waifs and strays.

[cathfromsaron]

sorry , here's your ticket home, is my answer!

(not based on race but based on our ability to pay and my taxes)

the UK is closed for business thanks!

au revoir!

[Philtaz]

Just had this texted to me:

If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labour. If you cross the Afghanistan border illegally, you get shot. Two Americans just got eight years for crossing the Iranian border.

If you cross the U. K. border illegally you get a job, a drivers license, food stamps, a place to live, health care, housing & child benefits, education, & a tax free business for 7 years.

Not a million miles away from the truth!

[emmie]

Phil, some will i am sure take issue, big or not, with you for your slightly tongue in cheek missive, though i reckon it's nearer the truth than many want to admit.

[flip_flop]

As for the living in poverty comment - good god - I've lived in worse places than the house this lady is living in.

Further, I know people who don't earn £25k gross, and yet they still schlep their sorry arses onto the 6.50 to London Bridge day in and day out and wouldn't dream of screwing us the way this woman is.

[cathfromsaron]

i agree flip flop!

[saintpeter48]

no doubt you've all heard a version of my story but this is what happened to me. I am 64, married and worked all my life, been self employed now for about 10 years. 4 years ago I suffered a heart attack and had 2 stents fitted, I was off work for about 3 months - I filled in all the forms, had a visit from DHSS and In the first 6 weeks of my illness they sent me a cheque for £1.27p - I live in rented accomodation, my wife at that time didn't work, i had less than £1000 savings and they expected me to survive on £1.27, after many phone calls, home visits, journeys to the DHSS i started to receive about £60 per week, bearing in mind my rent was £100 a week, plus heating, electric, council tax, food etc i just couldn't manage, the following year i had to go bankrupt. So my point is, how can these outsiders come here and claim all sorts of benefits when I cannot get anywhere near what they claim? When I raised this at the DHSS office they said I was being racist when all i asked was that if I were Polish or Latvian would i be treated better. The government only have to ask themselves one question, here it is - Why do all of these people travel thousands of miles, cross many borders just to get to the UK when they could, if they wanted, stay in Germany, France, Spain etc etc .... it doesn't take a genius to know the answer - we are a soft touch and other countries will not put up with it. stop all benefits for non British people tomorrow and they will leave these islands quicker that you can say boo!!!!!

[NOX]

Yes Peter we have all heard a version of your story and you have my sympathy, but you should have had more help than that from day one, nothing will alter that- and complaining about people's claims who the benefits agency do get right simply won't help you. There are advocates who can assist anyone having issues with the Benefits Agency, and those who are not getting what they are entitled to need to consult with them if they are unable to understand what they themselves are entitled to or get any co-operation in a timely manner from the DWP/ BA.
This has nothing to do with Polish, Lithuanian or any other naitonality of people. What you are complaining about in effect is that the BA/ DWP did not do their jobs quickly or efficiently enough but then adding that you resent it when they get it right for somone else..