Is It Actually True, Charity Does Begin At Home?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265341/Theres-chance-leaving-British-benefits-daughter-good-life-Migrant-enjoys-lavish-lifestyle-raking-1-000-month-benefits.html

/// According to Miss Belova, a single mother in Lithuania would get £20 a month in child benefit plus discounted help with gas, electricity and housing. ///

/// But it wouldn't be enough to sustain the kind of lifestyle she enjoys here. ///

[tamborine]

She has to pay rent somewhere.......maybe to a greedy landlord ;)

[bazwillrun]

Shes taking the pizz like hundreds of thousands of others that have been doing the same for nearly 40 or so years and we just let it go on and on.

[bookbinder]

It should be true, that charity begins at home, but, as far as our leaders are concerned, it doesn't seem to be. Just in case our glorious leaders are looking, that means: look after your own first, and if there's anything left, put it in the bank for the future benefit of your own.

[Zacs-Master]

I think you may be confusing charity with tax generated benefits

[sandyRoe]

Could she really buy posh clothes on her income?

[boxtops]

If she's only paying off the minimum on her credit card each month, yes sandy, she can - but it'll catch up with her, it'll take her 20 years to pay it off

[Sammy48]

and 255,000 more of them will arrive over a 5 year period. I am thinking England may sink very soon.

[sandyRoe]

She must pay rent, pay to heat her home, buy food, use electricity, television license. And she's building up debt on her credit card.
It's hardly a life on easy street.

[Sammy48]

^250,000^ that should read. Dont want to get the figures wrong , eh
Mr. Cameron. lol

[atalanta]

People who say "charity begins at home" really mean " charity begins and ends at home", and use that saying as an excuse never to help anyone outside their own family.

[anotheoldgit]

Makes one wonder why such people openly broadcast their 'easy living' on benefits lifestyles?

[Zacs-Master]

Why not, she's not doing anything illegal.

[ummmm]

A life of luxury? On £400 a week? Take away her housing benefit and that's about £300. Once she's paid all her bills and bought food she certainly wouldn't have much left to be living a life of luxury.

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// Why not, she's not doing anything illegal. ///

Perhaps not, but it might make the Government think that certain benefits are too generous, and make cuts in the benefits of those not enjoying such a lifestyle.

[VHG]

>>>On £400 a week?

That is £20,800 a year.

My daughter goes out 5 days a week to work, and only earns £19,000 a year, AND has to pay tax on her earnings as well.

My daughters tax pays for people like this to swan into the country and live off our stupidity.

Time for it to stop methinks.

[anotheoldgit]

VHG

/// Time for it to stop methinks. ///

Yes but what does Cameron and his liberal thinking government do? he makes those who have paid into the system for most of their lives, undergo reassessment scrutiny.

There would be more than enough to go round our own people, if we stopped foreign nationals skimming off the top., when this is done then we can start on our own grown scroungers.

At least this would stop adding to the problem before we tackle the problem in earnest.

[Zacs-Master]

I agree with you and i hope (rather forlornly) it does, but that's not what you asked.

[ummmm]

VHG - That wasn't my point it's the way the Mail writes the story.

//A single mother from Lithuania who lives a life of luxury at the expense of Britain's taxpayers //

I'm sorry but you cannot live a life of luxury on that.

I'm not saying its okay for it to be happening but the Mail doesn't have to dramatise it.

[sp1814]

She seems incredibly stupid broadcasting this to a national paper. I can only assume she was somehow duped into it.

Wonder if the Mail paid for the story???