Benefits debit card - best idea EVER!

[vetran]

That simply won't work and cost a lot of money trying to blacklist codes.

Cut the benefits to get them into work - that's how it should be done.

It's got to be done sooner or later if we want to abolish cash (which most governments do).

If we leave it until later we will force them into bank accounts with overdrafts and charges.

We already have a basic bank account on offer.

Basic Bank Accounts: Top accounts for poor credit scores...

Lets set up a benefits bank account.

[minestrone]

Giving them sky is probably a wise move, it keeps them at least in doors and away from the working population as they go about their business.

They should be somehow reduced from drinking booze and smoking tabs all day.

[doodab]

Personally I believe the Government should have a word with Rupert Murdoch about stopping Sky for scroungers lol

No chance. This is the biggest state subsidy of the private sector in the UK and giving it up would diminish his and the governments ability to placate and control the plebiscite. The overlizards wouldn't stand for it.

[Gibbon]

Another way to look at it is the old

PANEM ET CIRCENSES but now SKY AND STELLA

Keeps them from civil unrest. Screw them too hard and there will be.

[The Spartan]

No chance. This is the biggest state subsidy of the private sector in the UK and giving it up would diminish his and the governments ability to placate and control the plebiscite. The overlizards wouldn't stand for it.

I was being facetious as what you stated I already kind of grasped

[doodab]

Also, encouraging the consumption of fruit and withholding booze and fags will have the long term effect of massively increasing the bludger population through increased longevity while the workers who can afford to numb the tedium of existence continue to die young. It's a demographic disaster waiting to happen.

[d000hg]

Cash is going, creating a debit card with no or only nominal transaction charges (say 10p charge) will encourage its demise but doing this will encourage the outliers as there will be an area of society using it.

Its not complicated its just different. Why would you have the ability to transfer to another bank account makes no sense considering the application.

I went to the local corner shop the other day, got there and realised the wife had helped herself to the notes, I had £3 and wanted to spend £5.

So I asked can I use my debit card? they said minimum spend £10 & 70p fee.

Loads of places still don't accept cards at all. And card machines break. Great news when you can't do your shopping for two days.

Maybe actual vouchers are the answer. Shops simply get the money back from the government. Of course people will sell them for cash but there's a big difference between a system that is basically broken to start with, and one you have to break on purpose.

[d000hg]

and also make sure that they can only buy the 'budget' range from the supermarket

oh and also that the card only works 9-5 so that when i shop in the evening after working hard all day I am not falling over the sweatly lazy scumbags

oh yeah and sterlise them too that stop the feckers breeding and in a generation the problem will go away.

and when they start banging on about human rights just point out the humans do not live in their own sh!t and shag their blood relaations and see other peoples property as an opportunity so maybe they can have scumbag rights which equate to fe<k all

or something

Can we also have a special shop for people like OPM and eUK so the rest of us can avoid them too?

[Mich the Tester]

How did we ( much of Europe and the UK) end up in the position of discussing this kind of thing?

The whole point of benefits is that they provide basic help if some misfortune should befall people who would otherwise work, like losing their job, being genuinely ill or the death of one of the breadwinners in the home. I've always seen it that way; if something should befall me now as a permie like being sacked in a reorganisation, then there'll be some money to help me through, and if I should die then Lady Tester doesn't need to search through bins to find food. I wouldn't even want to consider the indignity of sitting at home watching daytime TV and living off someone else's taxes. Really, I have an unpleasant man-flu (read: I sneezed a few times this morning) and could theoretically pull a sicky and stay at home on full pay for the first few weeks, but I prefer the dignity of working. I just can't believe that the existence of the benefit system itself is responsible for some people thinking it's a free for all, there must be some other things broken in society to end up with people choosing not to work and live on benefits.

The debit card might be a help but it looks to me like a band aid for something that's really broken.

[RasputinDude]

How did we ( much of Europe and the UK) end up in the position of discussing this kind of thing?

Feature creep and people realised that they could vote themselves more money for doing less.

I agree with everything else you put, by the way.