pslewis

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Well, stop work and start claiming benefits!!!!

Benefits to increase by 5.2% next April ....... only under the Tories could this happen!

The Tories ...... soft on Benefits, soft on Crime ... soft in the head!!

They haven't a clue!!

Ant

is it not to keep with inflation?, which we all know is down to labour getting us in this mess.

Soft on bankers.........

TelBoy

Yeah, blame the bankers

Ant with respect why don't you actually find out what's going on in the world instead of continually harping on about something you only know as much as The Sun tells you? Hmm?

Trout

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Indeed why just blame the bankers.

In fact it's always someone else's fault: -

Pikeys
Eurocrats
Immigrants
Benefit claimants
Bankers
Foreigners
Politicians
Police
Labour
Conservatives
Unions
Oil companies
Muslims
Journalists
TV
Social workers
Doctors
Nurses

I could go on.

Best place to start is in the mirror. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

Trout

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Tel,

have you watched the RBS program yet on iPlayer.

I know it is biased but Fred the Shred doens't come out of it well, neither does his boss McKillop who looks like a glove puppet.

TelBoy

I haven't, Trout, no. In all fairness i think Fred Goodwin typifies all that was wrong with banking, i've not read much which endears me to the man.

RA Dunk

Forgot to watch this, thanks for the reminder Trout.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode..._Out_of_Money/

Leslie

I thought you said the Conservatives were hard hearted.

Your description above is more accurately pinned to your heroes, as from the beginning of their time in office!

Les

Ant

maybe the tongue in cheek reply to pete was lost on you, fair enough.

Maybe i should of added a smiley to highlight it better.


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Gear Head

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I've had one 2.8% increase in the last 3 years. We do get around an 8-10% yearly bonus plus a few hundred quid at Christmas.
Pay review happening in the next week, so fingers crossed they will see that a 3% increase in salary when cost of living has risen by over 10% is not really fair.
Especially when the company are still making healthy profits.

Then again, I am grateful for having a job!

stilover

My pay increase over the last 3 years has been 0%
My Bonus over the last 3 years has been £0.

My savings are eaning nothing, and inflation means they are worth less than what I put in.

The money left over every month after all the bills have been paid is getting less and less.

stilover

Have the actually said this will happen?

Yesterday they said nothing had been decided, but was unlikely to happen.

austinwrx

a more accurate point of view is:

£18 billion current spend on housing benefit: having risen from £10 billion in 2000.

all under new labour.

google universal credit and welfare reform. there are about to be some massive crack downs on the benefit dependant.

austinwrx

Oh- I should quantify this with :

what do you think current Police and anti-terrorism spending is?








thats right £9 billion.

its even less on health, education etc.

speedking

If, and its a big if, benefits are the minimum that are required to live, then they have to change in line with inflation or they would become less than the minimum required to live, which is not good.

TelBoy

Stop trying to confuse me That's like shooting fish in a barrel

austinwrx

problem is you can get so much on benefit, its an unfair set up. it'll change to a cap of £500 a week, from which everything has to come:

rent, council tax, child benefit, disability, income support etc etc.

i.e the notion that it should not pay you not to work

sonicvr6

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i was out of work just after xmas last year and we could not live on what they paid to the point that we got in det over the 6 weeks i was out of work

XRS

Yes, under the previous money-no-object Labour government the would have got 5.6% (RPI instead of CPI).

Short memory?

Lee247

I must be honest, I have no idea how the benefits system works. You read in the papers about folks getting 30k a year, never working and living in fancy houses.
I know of two people who are really struggling. One, her husband has severe depression, so bad they took him into hospital for a month. The most she can get for herself and her child and him, is £62 job seekers. How the hell can he get job seekers, when he is incapable of working due to his illness
How come they are getting no help, other than that. And they are busy assessing him, to make sure he is entitled to it. I am totally lost by it all.
Seems to me, some folks know how to play the system and some folks don't. She has got herself a part time job mobile hairdressing, to help out, but I bet that will only reduce the £62 to nothing.

sonicvr6

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we was getting £220 a week for a family of 3 to pay all the bills shopping and they did pay towards the mortgage but we still had to top that up by £50 a week so that £170 to feed cloth 3 people feed the dog keep car on road to look for work pay the ex-wife for the older kids and all this come strait after xmas so not much left in the bank that time of year and that was twice in 3 year's that i was out of work dew to place's going under. now dont get me wrong i was only out of work for 6 weeks and 4 of them was waiting to start new job so i dont think it's right these that are on it long term as there is work out there right now i'm looking for 30 odd staff and not even getting call

TelBoy

Are you sure you spelt your phone number correctly?

sonicvr6

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yeah i'm sure spoke to a man at the job center tat my wife know's and he's sent me some people for interview who have been on benefits for a long time so far out of the 10 people that i have given job's to 1 yes one is stil coming in the rest have ether quit or just never turned up. not saying canvassing is a nice or good job to do but when there giving it away and only have to work from 9:30am-2:30pm get picked up from home and dropped home not to mention take home 3-500 a week you'd think they would jump at it but to much like hard work

jods

I'll be out of work from 19th November. Have paid into the pot for most of my working life. Had 8 months out 6 years ago which I covered with Income loss insurance.

Got 2 mortgages and associated bills.

Wonder if I'll get any help?

PaulC72

Jods Iwould imagine you will get JSA and that is it for 6months then it will be based upon your household income...you will get free dental and tablets ;-)

sonicvr6

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very little probably but i would more than lightly give you a job if your up for it

jods

More than "lightly"?

Light fingered job is it then Guv

I can make numbers do wonderful things

There's Statistics, Lies & Damned lies

sonicvr6

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it's sales well giving away stuff inbox me if you want to know more if your any good at it 1200-1500 a week as a manager and any one with a brain can do it

cookstar

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I'm thinking double glazing/solar roof panels.

RA Dunk

These lazy ba$tards should be getting there social/job seekers or what ever money they are getting cut.