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Benefit Swipe Cards, Good Idea Or Not?
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But if the idea took off, would it only effect certain families?
/// One idea under discussion in Whitehall is for the 120,000 problem families who were identified in the Government’s riots review to be given the Oyster-style cards. ///
But if the idea took off, would it only effect certain families?
/// One idea under discussion in Whitehall is for the 120,000 problem families who were identified in the Government’s riots review to be given the Oyster-style cards. ///
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.'charity -does he live at home? if so £56 is quite ok for someone who has no bills -if he has his own place he will not only be getting £56 he will be getting housing benefit, council tax benefit, etc. I do not have £56 disposable income a week after I've paid all my bills and living expenses.'
Jane, I'm confused by your argument. Don't adults who live at home have to pay their way? Don't people who have their own place have to pay for gas, electricity, food etc. out of their benefit payments?
I'm not convinced that you've thought things through but,if you genuinely feel that people are better off on benefits, why not resign and join your friends in that expensive coffee shop (get a taxi there).
Jane, I'm confused by your argument. Don't adults who live at home have to pay their way? Don't people who have their own place have to pay for gas, electricity, food etc. out of their benefit payments?
I'm not convinced that you've thought things through but,if you genuinely feel that people are better off on benefits, why not resign and join your friends in that expensive coffee shop (get a taxi there).
No Charity - when my children have been at home unemployed they have stayed in my house free. That's what parents do, look after their children, its not the governments obligation. If the benefit system is so meager, the payments so 'piddly' why oh why do hundreds of thousands of people flood into the UK every year? Obviously not for all the jobs available as no UK citizen would be unemployed would they? No, because they get a roof over their head and enough money to live on which is more than most countries. A few on this thread are confusing 'passion' with 'aggression' . Charity, you worked in a Job centre and it was heartbreaking well good for you . Try working in India or Sierra Leone and see what real poverty is, children crying with hunger,mothers coming to the clinic with half dead babies, then you would see real poverty, not well fed well clothed and housed people moaning because they are only getting £300 a week.
Not everyone on benefits lives the life of Riley as you seem to imply.
I know someone who was self employed and is now very ill and unable to work. He has been refused all benefits and has zero income. Luckily he lives rent free but cannot afford any heating or food. Last week he went for 3 days with no food until a friend turned up with some tins for him.
Who needs to go to India or Sierra Leone to see poverty?
I know someone who was self employed and is now very ill and unable to work. He has been refused all benefits and has zero income. Luckily he lives rent free but cannot afford any heating or food. Last week he went for 3 days with no food until a friend turned up with some tins for him.
Who needs to go to India or Sierra Leone to see poverty?
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