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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Cashy, I have been there......been poor.....my father was out of work and ill for years after he was demobbed...we got nothing from the welfare state.
And I do not mean for people of today to suffer the same things just because I did, but you and I both know that poverty...real poverty (where you have nothing in the cupboard to eat) steels your character and makes you rely on no-one but yourself.
The benefit cap is going to be set at £26,000 now I don't know about you, but I do not get anywhere near that, and I didn't get that kind of money when I was working either.
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I have no objection at all to a cap, my objection is simple.
