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Originally Posted by accyman
what this current lot have managed to do is stigmatize people on benefits to the extent that people not on benefits couldnt care less how badly people on benefits are treated.
I don't think this is entirely true. There is a difference between not caring and not wanting to be a party to fraudulent claimants. And a benefits free for all that make people dependent is no help at all
theres plenty out there who are on benefits who sell drugs , work full time and run every scam in the book but its hard work and costly to catch them people.
So, it is a hard job.....does that mean that it should not be attempted?
its much easier to take money off the vulnerable and bad mouthing the poor is free
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Those who are poor often do not pay taxes...apart from those levied on what they spend their money on.
My daughter has been ill for a long time. She has not had a penny of benefits apart from a short time on SSP...which ran out some time last July.
She gets no benefits because her husband earns just slightly over the threshold where she would be able to claim.
A request was put in for her to receive PIP(the new name for DLA) that was in May last year...she has not had a single penny ...and only recently had an ATOS interview in her home because she is too ill to travel...she was told that the processing of this claim could take three months.
So I am fully aware of the difficulties the claimants face.
My comments have been made in the face of being aware of these difficulties from a personal point of view.
She has had to give up on things that many of us take for granted.
You have to cut your coat according to your cloth.
I have said many times that if those who should pay tax paid the amount that is required(thinking of the
legal tax evasion that the multi national companies practice while the government - and not just this government but preceding ones too, seem to think is alright)then there would be enough in the pot to pay those in need, what would be something that allows a life, rather than an existence