Benefits cap

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What are peoples views on the planned cap of £26k/year/family?

Personally I am all for if you can't afford kids, don't have them. I know this is seen as unpopular, but I am not currently able to support kids and give them the life I want so I am not going to have any. Once I can, I will.

People seem to think they are so entitled to benefits it annoys me. I work hard and get less than many do on benefits.

From the article; "We have three teenage boys living in one room that barely fits their bunks and a chair-bed in it and two teenage daughters in a smaller room that barely fits their bunks in it."

Yeah, I do feel some sympathy for the boys, but what were the parents thinking?
 
webhound said:
How do you mean, what were the parents thinking?
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I assume he's wondering why the parents are having 5 children if they clearly can not afford to provide for them.

I think the cap is a great idea, and it should have been brought in a long long time ago. Nothing really else for me to add.
 
I was just looking at this.
No idea how much cigarettes cost these days, but surely 200 of them, a large pouch of tobacco and 24 cans of lager must come to at least £82.40?

EDIT. Also, they appear to be spending over £200 per month on sky and mobile phones!
 
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My heart bleeds, ah well might have to get a job. Teenage boys? Paper round? Saturday job at Tesco? The wonders of the new world
 
I say its a good thing. You should never be better off on benefits than working for a living.

My grandparents had 6 kids, 3 girls (including my mum) and 3 boys in a three bedroom house they owned. They couldn't affort a bigger house but did they moan about it and have some kind of twisted belief that the government owed them. No they didn't they got on with it and the kids shared 3 to a room.
 
£26k per year is far to much, you know this is more then a delivery driver will take home who actually works every year and may have children?

They should be capped to around £18k then they will really struggle and maybe think twice about having kids until they can pay for them instead of all of use doing it.
 
Raymond, a former educational software writer, has been jobless since 2001.
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"In the third bedroom we have ourselves and a five-year-old boy."
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How can they complain when it when he was already out of work for years prior to the 5th child.
 
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Possibly they had kids whilst parent(s) were in reasonable enough employment to house the family but due to recession or other factors, lost their job/home? OR (most likely) they realised how pathetic the UK benefits system is and they would receive more benefits based on the number of children.
Then again I do wonder when seeing starving nations on the news etc why some families have newborns in the midst of famine.
 
webhound said:
Possibly they had kids whilst parent(s) were in reasonable enough employment to house the family but due to recession or other factors, lost their job/home? OR (most likely) they realised how pathetic the UK benefits system is and they would receive more benefits based on the number of children.
Then again I do wonder when seeing starving nations on the news etc why some families have newborns in the midst of famine.
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No, just normal UK people being Lazy:

Says Ray: "The market for my skills dried up 10 years ago - there's a total lack of work in my area of expertise."

After 10 years he should have thought about factory work........

Men are not real men in this day and age, my Dad had to walk over 10 miles to get to work then 10 miles back everyday when we had a rough patch when I was a kid, not many would do that now.
 
I get paid £7.43 an hour, not a bad wage to be honest, especially for what I am contracted for (I do more, looks good on the CV lol). I would have to work just over 67 hours a week and somehow not pay taxes or NI to earn £27k a year.
 
voorhees1979 said:
No, just normal UK people being Lazy:

Says Ray: "The market for my skills dried up 10 years ago - there's a total lack of work in my area of expertise."

After 10 years he should have thought about factory work........

Men are not real men in this day and age, my Dad had to walk over 10 miles to get to work then 10 miles back everyday when we had a rough patch when I was a kid, not many would do that now.
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You can learn a new skill in 1 year, never mind 10!!

The whole system and work ethos of the UK needs reform
 
Woden said:
I get paid £7.43 an hour, not a bad wage to be honest, especially for what I am contracted for (I do more, looks good on the CV lol). I would have to work just over 67 hours a week and somehow not pay taxes or NI to earn £27k a year.
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This, makes me sick they will get £26k for nothing.
 
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