There is now a £25,000 cap on the total value of benefits that can be paid to any family, regardless of size. With rent of £1,900 per month that does not leave Abu Qatada much to live on. His personal assets have been seized, so how will he manage? Is he likely to be exempt from the new ‘cap’ due to his Human Rights? Or can we now buy him a plane ticket?
I don't quite understand. Were the Philpotts getting £60,000 for their kids. As you start paying tax around the £9000 mark surely their is a case for taxing them as they do for the OAP pension.
that is why i am so flipping annoyed with this situation with the likes of Qatada and all, i get absolutely nowhere near those figures, always worked, and now look set to either pay lot more, which will have to for the time being or ship out. Pisses me off no end.
The Philpotts would escape this cap as they made their £60,000 from Child Allowances and the government has no intention of cutting this back. Maybe they should restrict this so that families are not encouraged to have more and more children.
pdq1 - Osborne has proven in the space of three weeks how to bend the truth to qualify as a liar.
He said in the budget that millions would be better off because they would be removed from the tax system and better off. Then imposes caps and 'bedroom' tax to affect those same millions.
Is there a special quality which makes one become a Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Do you remember his face when over 60,000 people booed him at the Olympics medal ceremony? Priceless
In September 1993 Qatada fled with his wife and five children to the UK, using a forged UAE passport. He requested asylum on grounds of religious persecution, claiming he had been tortured in Jordan, and this was granted in June 1994.
I can never understand these asylum laws. We give sanctuary to those who want to do us harm whilst protecting a criminal/terrorist on the run from a friendly country. If Hitler were alive today he would be plotting our downfall in England and we would be paying him benefits to do so. Plane crazy!