CUK Rant Bait

[minestrone]

The cycle of never ending welfare has to be broken in some way, I don't know what the answer is but people cannot be allowed to go on creaming the system as they do.

On another point I do get tired of the whataboutery people drag up when welfare reform gets mentioned "I know someone that has a nice house and has been recently been made unemployed, you want to lump him in with the common chav", it is like a human shield mentality, pushing out these fictional scenarios.

Get on a bike and get a job.

[doodab]

Get on a bike and get a job.

Having worked as a cycle courier (when a student) I reckon this is an excellent idea. It would get people fit and it would improve the online shopping experience considerably if all purchases were delivered to your chosen location by a doley on a bike. Especially the big ones.

[minestrone]

The wife came in tonight "that was a nightmare day, let's sell up and get a council house".

[doodab]

On a serious note, it would make sense to cap benefits at around the same level as the minimum wage so that people can't be significantly better off not working.

[minestrone]

On a serious note, it would make sense to cap benefits at around the same level as the minimum wage so that people can't be significantly better off not working.

When I was a lad you could work for 12 hours to pay for a room in a shared flat for a week, now you have to work 30 hours for that.

House price rises and rent increases have destroyed that.

[NickFitz]

On a serious note, it would make sense to cap benefits at around the same level as the minimum wage so that people can't be significantly better off not working.

If benefits were at the same level as the minimum wage, those two would be a lot better off: they'd be getting about £2,100 a month between them if they each worked a minimum wage job 40 hours a week, given he'd be on £6.19/hour and she'd be on £4.98/hour.

Of course, then they'd have to pay for child care, which they can do themselves at the moment.

[SueEllen]

On a serious note, it would make sense to cap benefits at around the same level as the minimum wage so that people can't be significantly better off not working.

A couple on minimum wage with children are entitled to benefits including tax credits and child benefit and possibly housing benefit if one of them works and the other looks after the child(ren).

In other words they are lazy f***ers.

[Robinho]

When I was a lad you could work for 12 hours to pay for a room in a shared flat for a week, now you have to work 30 hours for that.

House price rises and rent increases have destroyed that.

Thanks Labour.

[BoredBloke]

Saw on the news this morning that the housing benefit bill in the UK was £24 Billion!!

Benefits should be for those who can't work (sick/disabled and unemployed looking for work) they should not be for those who decide not to work. Certain benefits should be time related and on a sliding scale...the longer you are on the lower it gets, so you can't simply sit on your @rse watching your big telly!

[doodab]

Saw on the news this morning that the housing benefit bill in the UK was £24 Billion!!

Benefits should be for those who can't work (sick/disabled and unemployed looking for work) they should not be for those who decide not to work. Certain benefits should be time related and on a sliding scale...the longer you are on the lower it gets, so you can't simply sit on your @rse watching your big telly!

In this case they are mostly for people who do work, but don't earn enough (or aren't paid well enough) to cover their own rent. 93% of new housing benefit claimants are working.