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Yes I know the lady has a disability and wants to work but can't so it's not a dig at her but that's a ridiculous amount of money. Millions don't even earn that working 40 hours a week. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyv8y68e25o
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£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 11:30 - Oct 31 with 1593 views
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 11:27 - Oct 31 by noggin
I'm fine with it. The Norwegian wealth fund is doing very nicely by investing in poorer countries like the UK. Those profits are my future pension. Not sure it's benefiting you though.
that's very capitalist of you having a pension. so you and / or your employer / the state have saved and you now expect to earn a return on those savings to pay you a pension. of course, if you offered those savings out to, say, sainsbury's, without expecting any return they could pay their workers much more. you greedy b*stard.
And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show
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£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 11:36 - Oct 31 with 1539 views
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 11:15 - Oct 31 by MattinLondon
All it can take is for one unexpected event to take hold and ruin the life plans for an individual.
Indeed
I have three female relatives who lost husbands (One murdered, one to cancer, one to suicide) in their 30s/40s and whose financial situation was changed overnight as they focused on parenting alone, whilst trying to maintain a home, never my mind considering their long term financial plans.
Someone described some of the comments as "odious" and irrespective of their experiences, am struggling to see beyond that.
People can choose to be kind or they can chose to be judgemental pricks. As ever.
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 10:39 - Oct 31 by noggin
Do you think Sainsbury,s shareholders are just getting by?
The problem is people always use the examples of huge profitable multinationals which really shows a lack of understanding of the wider economy. In reality the bulk of the UK workforce are employed by SME’s whose margins are far smaller. With COVID and the cost of living crisis huge numbers have been squeezed out of existence. More companies have failed in the UK than in the GFC so huge wage rises would send even more under.
If you pay people lots more, the cost of everything goes up and nobody is actually better off. Our wages are comparable to the rest of Western Europe. The problem is the cost of living (particularly housing). This is what needs to be tackled.
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£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 11:39 - Oct 31 with 1501 views
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 11:33 - Oct 31 by lowhouseblue
that's very capitalist of you having a pension. so you and / or your employer / the state have saved and you now expect to earn a return on those savings to pay you a pension. of course, if you offered those savings out to, say, sainsbury's, without expecting any return they could pay their workers much more. you greedy b*stard.
The Norwegian wealth fund is owned by the Norwegian people. If Britain wants to sell its assets to that fund, who am I to complain? I'm sure you'd rather Britain didn't sell it's assets though?
The problem is people always use the examples of huge profitable multinationals which really shows a lack of understanding of the wider economy. In reality the bulk of the UK workforce are employed by SME’s whose margins are far smaller. With COVID and the cost of living crisis huge numbers have been squeezed out of existence. More companies have failed in the UK than in the GFC so huge wage rises would send even more under.
If you pay people lots more, the cost of everything goes up and nobody is actually better off. Our wages are comparable to the rest of Western Europe. The problem is the cost of living (particularly housing). This is what needs to be tackled.
Surely squeezed out by those multi nationals though. Smaller companies can't compete.
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 11:40 - Oct 31 by noggin
Surely squeezed out by those multi nationals though. Smaller companies can't compete.
They can compete hence they are the backbone of our economy. It’s a little more nuanced than that with industry specific squeezes - not that it’s relevant to my point. Given the margins how do you propose SME’s absorb additional costs given they employ around 70pc of thr UK workforce it’s quite an important point.
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£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 11:53 - Oct 31 with 1355 views
They can compete hence they are the backbone of our economy. It’s a little more nuanced than that with industry specific squeezes - not that it’s relevant to my point. Given the margins how do you propose SME’s absorb additional costs given they employ around 70pc of thr UK workforce it’s quite an important point.
But that sounds like they're only able to compete by cutting costs to the bare minimum.
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 08:59 - Oct 31 by artsbossbeard
Kirsty has several disabilities, including a connective tissue disorder which causes her joints to dislocate. As per the article, she's severely disabled. I'd not swap places with her.
Kirsty couldn't, therefore, move from her £1,300 a month pad to a <£1,000 without aid and assistance from others and I'm sure that she has specific equipment that would need professional installs.
Grrr! Stop paying for hotels for them forinners, look after our own first. No, not Kirsty though.
Also this isn't really a representative sample as housing benefit has been replaced with Universal Credit and the employment assessment tests are far more strict now. Of course people play the system, but the amount of tax fraud is much greater than benefit fraud yet the latter is where 'crackdowns' are always focused. For me in-work poverty is a bigger scandal.
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£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 14:33 - Oct 31 with 1114 views
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 11:27 - Oct 31 by noggin
I'm fine with it. The Norwegian wealth fund is doing very nicely by investing in poorer countries like the UK. Those profits are my future pension. Not sure it's benefiting you though.
We should all move to Norway to enjoy the fruits of the fossil fuel industry, with the added bonus of being able to look down our noses at the struggling plebs.
Has anyone ever looked at their own postings for last day or so? Oh my... so sorry. Was Ullaa
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 14:33 - Oct 31 by giant_stow
We should all move to Norway to enjoy the fruits of the fossil fuel industry, with the added bonus of being able to look down our noses at the struggling plebs.
Well at least the profits go to the people, unlike oil from British waters.
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 09:29 - Oct 31 by redrickstuhaart
There is a massive problem with the benefits bill. It keeps growing, and it is correct that some people are able to rake in a decent living on benefits, beyond what others are making through hard work.
The source of those problems is up for debate but two things leap to mind:
1- lack of resources for health social and mental health care has meant that people don't get help they need until they are in crisis. This inevitably has both immediate and long terms impacts on the work force and ability to work
2- If you run a small business paying minimum wage or close to it, and you are taking profit from that business that exceeds minimum wage for yourself, you are NOT running a viable business or contributing positively to the economy. You are being subsidised by the state, who have to top up the pay of the employees to enable them to live. This needs to stop.
Another key element is the historic government policies that have increase the cost of living for the worst off.
Right to buy is the main one of these - if we had not lost millions of council houses (or prevented councils from continuing to build them in large numbers), the benefits bill would be billions of pounds lower. Nicole's rent would be £450/month rather than £1250, nearly £10k/yr difference.
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£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 16:15 - Oct 31 with 900 views
Nice to see all the 'be kind' crowd win here sneering at the fact that someone severely disabled is not only being housed but might even be being fed as well.
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I'm one of the people who was blamed for getting Paul Cook sacked. PM for the full post.
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 09:15 - Oct 31 by NedPlimpton
Genuinely can't believe the lack of compassion I'm reading on here.
Saying a disabled person should move house to a completely new area or that someone still paying a mortgage in their 70s should have planned their lives better. You have absolutely no idea about these people's circumstances beyond a couple of hundred words in a BBC article.
I suggest you walk a mile in someone else's shoes before commenting.
And "me and my daughter reckon someone else is earning 30k in benefits and it's not fair" 😂. If you're jealous of someone on benefits then go and claim what they're claiming! Unless you're not able to, then don't make comparisons!!
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Some of the people on here are are going to be fücking furious when they find out what the royal family 'earns'.
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I'm one of the people who was blamed for getting Paul Cook sacked. PM for the full post.
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 14:33 - Oct 31 by giant_stow
We should all move to Norway to enjoy the fruits of the fossil fuel industry, with the added bonus of being able to look down our noses at the struggling plebs.
Plus the added advantage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine forcing oil & gas prices. There again Noggin being a good socialist will donate his pension profits to the people of Ukraine
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£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 17:28 - Oct 31 with 746 views
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 17:23 - Oct 31 by Leaky
Plus the added advantage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine forcing oil & gas prices. There again Noggin being a good socialist will donate his pension profits to the people of Ukraine
Britain has oil. Just sit back and enjoy the fruits of it.
They can compete hence they are the backbone of our economy. It’s a little more nuanced than that with industry specific squeezes - not that it’s relevant to my point. Given the margins how do you propose SME’s absorb additional costs given they employ around 70pc of thr UK workforce it’s quite an important point.
Hmmmmm......how about smaller profits?
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 14:33 - Oct 31 by giant_stow
We should all move to Norway to enjoy the fruits of the fossil fuel industry, with the added bonus of being able to look down our noses at the struggling plebs.
Why would we do that with Norfolk next door?
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
£33,000 a year on benefits!!! on 15:25 - Oct 31 by Clapham_Junction
Another key element is the historic government policies that have increase the cost of living for the worst off.
Right to buy is the main one of these - if we had not lost millions of council houses (or prevented councils from continuing to build them in large numbers), the benefits bill would be billions of pounds lower. Nicole's rent would be £450/month rather than £1250, nearly £10k/yr difference.
Right to buy and 'shareholding democracy' were two of the biggest deluded Thatcherite policies. My mum and dad scrimped and saved to pay a mortgage on a pretty modest bungalow. My uncle, similar age as my dad had a nice big council house on Chantry. Bought it under right to buy at well below market rate and then sold up and bought a place on the Dales. My dad felt cheated. It was ideological madness.
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