Benefits debit card - best idea EVER!

[darmstadt]

That's ok, very few people know what social workers do, though quite a lot have an opinion about it.

I was allocated a social worked when I was about to leave hospital having spent some months there after a rather serious accident. Her plan was to send me to a rehabilitation centre on the coast near Clacton. It didn't quite fit in with my plans which I thought were much better and I think worked a hell of a lot better. My plan was to leave the hospital and go back to work the next day which is in fact what I did and have never looked back.

I also had a probation officer once as well but we won't talk about her...

[petergriffin]

The idea of a benefit card for the unwashed is a terrible idea for 3 bullet points:

1. Abolition cash is ultimately abolition of freedom. Cash is the only real money you can decide what to do with. Once you remove cash from the unwashed, why stop there? Why not abolishing cash for the working class? Why not for the middle class too? And why not confiscate gold and silver? No thanks!
2. This is a gift to the credit/debit card companies that the taxpayer needs not subsidize.
3. The unwashed will be pushed towards these payday loan sharks, which I believe contract a few users on this board.

[mudskipper]

Sorry you took it that way. Just statement of fact. I actually dont expect people to know that much because unless you have an elderly relative there is no reason to know. Any more than I expect most people know what an IT contractor does.

Ah, ignore me - I'd had a glass or three...

[socialworker]

Ah, ignore me - I'd had a glass or three...