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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
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
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As some of you might know my son has just been treated for cancer. As he was unable to work sometimes during his treatment he asked about any assistance from the DSS. A lady called round and told him he wasn't entitled to anything until he'd been ill for nine months. What a joke, he's always worked, and, at a time when he needed assistance most, he got a kick in the teeth.I've had to beg, borrow and scrounge just to keep the electric and gas going in our house, never mind food. He wouldn't accept any help from Macmillan as he didn't want to take from someone more needy than him! When I see people laughing and taking the mick on benefits it really gets my goat.