Maybe you dont get on with your parents because they are sick of paying for the extra care you require, because you chose to refuse any benefits that are put in place to help people in your situation.
im just totally miffed by the whole thing. It makes ZERO sense.
Yes, except I've never got on with them, however the cost of food, and free housing doesn't actually effect them much and its a choice. I can be a burden to the state but a far HIGHER burden.
Here theres a house paid for and a room, to sponge off the government and move out I'd be taking up a council house, which shockingly cost a LOT more than a free room. Say i get 2-3k a years worth of food and a few hundred in power costs from my parents, to move out and live off the state I'd be getting in the region of 15-20k a year at this point on benefits if you can't see the difference, then I can't say anything anymore.
I also expect to pay my parents back at some point and look after them when they are older, so getting money off them isn't a big deal. Also, any parent should be aware when they have kids, not every single human is perfect. Does a parent with downs syndrome give up on them when they are 18, no. If/when I have kids I would realise I am responsible to them however they turn out, the possibility they need help till far past the age of 18 is there and I know this before I have kids.
Add to that, in small times when my knee pain is reduced slightly, during the summer I have and will try to work, I've worked several jobs in the hot weather when the pain is often less severe, if i was living on my own in a council house I would lose benefits and likely lose my place when I again become unable to work. I've had several jobs where to keep pain down I've had fairly frequent steroid injections into the knee to keep swelling down but after several months the pain still gets to bad and I end up having to leave.
I choose to be as helpful as I can when able, and not a burden while possible, to be called an idiot for that is just why this country is going down the tubes. There are people worse off than me who have NO choice, one of the other people I know with the exact same problem doesn't have parents to live with anymore as they died several years ago, he takes benefits now as he has no choice, I will do the same if I'm forced into the situation. But right now I'm not there.
I don't get if people just really can't understand the economic situation of this country or what. We grow in debt every year, we lose jobs in industry every year and we increase the public sector number of jobs every single year. INdustry jobs create money in our economy by producing something we can sell outside the country. Public sector jobs paid out of tax money simply move money around, we're moving towards a point where the debt this country takes on every single year is completely unsustainable and no one cares at all.
AS for taking the money and sticking it in savings, unless I move out I'm not entitled to a huge amount of benefits, if i move out, that money will go almost all on rent, power, food living costs and paying for help from people to get around, get to doctors, medication and so on so I wouldn't be able to save it, it would all be going down the tubes when I have the offer of free rent and board in a not ideal place but its still free. TO suggest i take it and simply save it, you realise people have worked for that tax, its no different to me simply asking this forum to all donate me £5 and stick it in the savings, the money still comes out of your pockets and I choose not to take it for my own greed.
