Benefit claiming Mother of 8 cant pay the rent?

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I'm too busy to get a job! Ex-lapdancer mother-of-eight on £20,000 benefits a year who says she 'works' 21 hours a day avoids eviction despite £4,000 unpaid rent bill

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This is like the Holy grail of DM headlines and i thought id make you nice, reasonable people aware of the news in order to brighten up your "hate" filled morning. :p Maybe take your strangulating hands from the necks of refugees and politicians for a few brief moments.

For what ever reason this women has gotten herself in this position, 8 kids single parent, how could you kick a family out of a house? Does she have time to work ? Hell no i doubt it, not yet. How on earth can a benefit system not pay the housing association rent direct? How can she have been allowed to have not paid the bill?

She claims 22k a year, that doesn't seem like the sort of money you can raise a family of that size on, what kind of future do these kids have ?

Discuss :D

Ah jesus can a mod change the title - Benefit claiming Mother of 8 cant pay the rent?
 
Why does this shock you? We know it goes on but the government fail to do anything about it.. They're too busy trying to make sure that genuine tax pay payers pay enough tax rather than clamping down on those that avoid paying tax altogether or those that cheat the system.
 
DM not doubt trying to make out people like her are at least 75% of the benefit burden.

I saw her on C4 when she moved into the bigger house and at that point, think she had £1,000 of overdue rent (this is after lavishing her kids with tens of Christmas presents). She is the epitome of click bait benefit scrounger.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
Why does this shock you? We know it goes on but the government fail to do anything about it.. They're too busy trying to make sure that genuine tax pay payers pay enough tax rather than clamping down on those that avoid paying tax altogether or those that cheat the system.
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Tax avoidance isn't something widespread amongst the general population it's much more prevalent in corporations like Starbucks, Amazon, Google etc. It beggars belief that our government seems so apathetic at tackling big business tax avoidance but keen on picking on the average Joe.
 
What is there to say, probably hundreds of similar stories. She probably pleaded with HA to not evict her, saying she will pay up. Hence why the bill is so large. What are the options if she is evicted, live in a homless refuge. £600 * 12 = £7200. £26724 - 7200 = £19300. Should be doable to survive for 8 kids.
 
There ought to be caps on child benefit for a start. Advice on contraception too. If you keep on squeezing out kids you can't support then a requirement to take contraception, failing that the kids go into care.
 
This is one of the reasons I think that, whilst benefits are a good thing for society, they do need to be rethought how they are implemented.

Pay part of the benefit provided straight to the council for the property rent, you'll always need a roof over your head and this will stop the problems with rent arrears. Pay some of it straight to the gas/electric/water boards as a direct debit, make it that you can't run out of gas or end up on costly prepayment meters.

I have no problem with people claiming benefits, but the current situation of allowing people to spend it on other things whilst knowing that they can get away without paying rent is something that needs to be addressed.
 
The trouble here is evicting her doesn't really punish her it punishes her kids who even the most rabid rich conservative can't think is right? The situation with the rent money getting given to the tenants to pass onto the landlords is farcical I can see the logic in the first instance as it gives them an opportunity to learn about budgeting etc but as soon as they fall into significant arrears it should switch to direct payment.

Other than that I'm not really sure what you do in a situation like this, her kids are already massively disadvantaged through no fault of there own cutting her benefits punishes them not her and the less opportunities we give them the more likely the cycle will be repeated.

dowie said:
There ought to be caps on child benefit for a start. Advice on contraception too. If you keep on squeezing out kids you can't support then a requirement to take contraception, failing that the kids go into care.
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Taking kids into care is hugely expensive and the long term outcomes for kids in care are worse, so again you will be punishing the child and storing up future problems and expense for the tax payer.
 
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You can't do much about her, the kids need to be looked after. It is something you can try to discourage from happening going forwards.
 
Come on, which one of you wrote this in the DM comments:

A remote island somewhere in the Hebrides would be perfect for all families like this, cut their benefits and make them grow crops, no Sky T.V, fags, Booze and showering their young ones with thousand's at Christmas, with our money!! Benefits should be based on previous earnings for a year and then subsistence only!! People like this who have probably paid in shirt buttons should get shirt buttons back
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dowie said:
There ought to be caps on child benefit for a start. Advice on contraception too. If you keep on squeezing out kids you can't support then a requirement to take contraception, failing that the kids go into care.
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ill go with this. seems a winner to me.
 
Sliver said:
Tax avoidance isn't something widespread amongst the general population it's much more prevalent in corporations like Starbucks, Amazon, Google etc. It beggars belief that our government seems so apathetic at tackling big business tax avoidance but keen on picking on the average Joe.
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So self employed people don't put through additional expenses to bring their taxable pay down?
 
Admiral Huddy said:
So self employed people don't put through additional expenses to bring their taxable pay down?
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I can't say but when you consider the billions collectively of tax avoiding corporations to those ordinary folk who try and cheat the system it's clear that our government has failed to tackle the problem.
 
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