Benefits RANT!

[Bri w]

Dearest daughter no2, and little legs the G'daughter, are now on their lonesome. The thieving boyfriend etc...

She has a 16 hrs a week job and is now in receipt of all the benefits she's entitled to. After paying all her bills, including food, for the month she has approx £600 yes £600 left to play with.

She doesn't want a job with more than 16hrs in it coz she'd be loads worse off. Where's the incentive???

Wish I had a 16hrs a week part time job that left me with £600 a month to play with after all the bills are paid. The system's rollox! I went round earlier to give her a wedge to help out with Xmas, and she's got more than me.

Wow. That's just plain wrong.

[DarrenSV650S]

Is she supposed to be looking for a job with more hours as part of her benefit entitlement ?

[timwilky]

I agree something is wrong. My daughter No 2 complains how much worse off she is now having gone back to work full time as a health care assistant at the local hospital. It is aditionally costing her a fortune in childcare when she is rota'd on lates/nights.

Lol, I'm lucky some months to have that and I work full time and run my own business, I agree, no incentive.

Makes me angry as well, my mom had 4 kids to feed when my dad passed away in 1978 and got hardly bugger all from the DSS at the time and held down 3 jobs to survive, got it too fecking easy these days.

It could be argued that if she doesn't need that much money, she shouldn't take all the benefits available. Not sure many people in this day and age would choose that option mind.

[NTECUK]

I don't think if she has £600 a month as play mony that she has any reson to complain or incentive to do more .
But its not her fult and You can't blame her can you.

[maviczap]

too rights its too easy to stay on benefits for that kind of dosh

On the plus side at least you daughter has enough money to look after little legs and doesn't have to go to work, just because the scum bag has walked out on her, although to reduce the amount the state is paying out they ought to recoup it back from scumbag

[dizzyblonde]

Wow, more than I have left at the moment.....think I need to bump Pete off

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by maviczap

although to reduce the amount the state is paying out they ought to recoup it back from scumbag

They do, they automatically put a thing on the system that contacts the CSA. IF they are successful in that, then its paid via whichever benefit you are on, you don't get the benefit and the CSA, one cancels out the other.

However.....you can, if you wish tell the CSA to bog off, which I have done several times in the past.