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Re: Benefit cap goes before the Lords.
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Originally Posted by ToffeeGuy
Imagine a person has been earning £100,000p.a. for years, contributing roughly £50,000 a year in tax. Through no fault of their own they are made redundant. Because of the benefit cap they would have to move house, change schools for their kids and generally uproot to an area where it is more difficult to travel to/get a new job. Thus reducing the chances of them getting a new job within days/weeks/months and off benefits.
Don't presume that everyone who receives benefits hasn't contributed to it fully and when they need it should be entitled to it.
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In the real world you cut your coat according to your cloth.
Sadly the real world today allows people to live a life of luxury, paid for by hard working people, who haven't a cat in Hell's chance of enjoying the same life-style they're funding for someone else to live.
Housing benefits: Somali asylum seeker Saeed Khaliif's family put up in £2m house | Mail Online
They system is ludicrous, and in the long-term unsustainable, and needs addressing....now.
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