Benefits debit card - best idea EVER!

[vetran]

This isn't going to work. Everyone on benefits lives off stolen cash and goods anyway so won't make a difference what they do with their bank accounts.....

Trolling?


A few of my friends who have been on benefits would be very offended by that!

But given a minority do actually behave like that then data mining would take you to those very quickly.

[Mich the Tester]

Your hubby is an alcoholic spends it all on booze, the wife has a gambling habit empties the rent account.

Erm, is this a puzzle? As in; tell us what your position is in this family?

[psychocandy]

And yet you rose above your roots to become a only-slightly-below-average internet forum troll.

Poor comment mate.

[vetran]

And how exactly would that be stopped?

It's a bank account & Visa, specific VAT codes & Bank Sort codes would be blocked.

Setting up DD to SKY would not be authorised.


It's not easy but most supermarkets could do it in 6 months I guess, smaller shops or longer.

[Mich the Tester]

It's a bank account & Visa, specific VAT codes & Bank Sort codes would be blocked.

Setting up DD to SKY would not be authorised.


It's not easy but most supermarkets could do it in 6 months I guess, smaller shops or longer.

So anyone who sets up a SKY subscription service based in a 99p shop called 'Cheap Food Ltd' that also sells fags and booze will be on to a winner?

Sounds like a Plan B.

[MyUserName]

Do you object to the idea or do you just think it would not be implmentable?

[d000hg]

It's a bank account & Visa, specific VAT codes & Bank Sort codes would be blocked.

Setting up DD to SKY would not be authorised.


It's not easy but most supermarkets could do it in 6 months I guess, smaller shops or longer.

Still sounds complicated. What stops you simply moving all the benefits money to your other, regular account, or simply taking it out as cash? You can't insist everything is bought by card because in thousands of villages, people still buy from a local shop or from grocers, or need to get a haircut, etc.

A tough problem. I was thinking more along the lines of a pre-charged card rather than an actual bank-account, more like vouchers really. But even that is difficult because we do not live in a cashless society.

[OwlHoot]

Not for use on booze, fags, sky tv.

Discussion on 5live this morning. Some MP starting a bill in parliament.

Brilliant idea. ...

Terrible idea, and a stalking horse for the worst kind of despotism

In 20 or 30 years half the population will probably have a universal benefit card like this, and one day perhaps everyone when there are essentially no jobs that aren't done better and cheaper by robots.

So whoever controls the cards determines what people can and can't buy, and knows everything they do buy.

[Mich the Tester]

Terrible idea, and a stalking horse for the worst kind of despotism

In 20 or 30 years half the population will probably have a universal benefit card like this, and one day perhaps everyone when there are essentially no jobs that aren't done better and cheaper by robots.

So whoever controls the cards determines what people can and can't buy, and knows everything they do buy.

Soylent Green is people!

[d000hg]

Poor comment mate.

You think he's average?