New cap on benefits

[GillD46]

Thanks for the comments everyone. I wasn't looking for sympathy, just trying to show not everything is what it might appear.

[Serendipity]

Sorry to hear about your daughter, I would not begrudge her a penny.
These are the people whose life style I object to funding !
Couple with 6 children on £27,000 per year benefits, neither of them worked since the first child was born and they want the council to give them a bigger house, the wife is apprently very fertile!

[Silver_Shiney]

Sorry to hear about your daughter, I would not begrudge her a penny.
These are the people whose life style I object to funding !
Couple with 6 children on £27,000 per year benefits, neither of them worked since the first child was born and they want the council to give them a bigger house, the wife is apprently very fertile!

Absolutely - no-one would begrudge those in genuine circumstances our aid.

[Dark Knight]

the issue for many, myself included, is that some families have more than one generation that have never worked but still have all the luxuries, that working folk have to earn, so could not have bought them from working
looking at some of the figures today, the cut in benefit will affect over 4,000 families and that over a 1000 of those receive over £40,000 a year in benefits

I find it very difficult to support benefits to that level and find it ridiculous that they are allowed that level of benefit for doing absolutely nothing to contribute to society

I strongly support benefits for the right people and do not begrudge them a single penny

[david63]

I don't think that many will disagree with you DK but the problem, for us, is being able to identify who falls into which group.

As I see it there are three groups of benefit claimant (there may be identifiable sub groups within them)

- The genuinely ill and/or disabled. There is, for many in this group, little that can be done other than support them and these are the people that the benefits system was intended for. The problem here is that there are some in this group who should not be there.

- Those who have "fallen on hard times". Again another group for whom the benefits system was designed and we should be helping these to get back into employment.

- Those who choose benefits as a lifestyle. The least said about this group the better

[Dark Knight]

That's the rub, David
the first 2 groups who deserve the benefits are tarred with the same brush as the undeserving who make benefits an alternative to work, so when the cuts come, everyone suffers, rather than the ones who fleeced the country

[Silver_Shiney]

That's the rub, David
the first 2 groups who deserve the benefits are tarred with the same brush as the undeserving who make benefits an alternative to work, so when the cuts come, everyone suffers, rather than the ones who fleeced the country

as usual, DK, you hit the nail on the head.