Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: mrgreen on 11 November 2010, 01:20:13
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David Cameron has announced he intends to make it more difficult to claim benefits.
From next week the forms will only be printed in English.
o.k it was a text but i liked it! ;D
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Naughty but still funny!!
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:) :)
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On a serious note I was back in Scotland a couple of weeks ago and went to a Friends Reunited reunion . met up with over 250 people from the town I grew up in .
I was shocked , nay , horrified at the number of people who are on long term incapacity benefit payments and who spent the evening dancing away like teenagers .
They took pride in telling me the dodges that had to be employed ( s'cuse the pun ) to ensure they continued "on the pigs back " . Many, but not all ,also had some kind of undeclared income allowing a superior standard of living to mine.
I spent an evening with one good friend of mine from way back ( I'm sad to say ) who enjoys the payment due to a " back " injury .He has three holidays a year ,two properties in Bulgaria and a BRAND NEW merc E220 sitting on the driveway of his non mortgaged 4 bed detached house.
He and his working wife openly admitted to the situation but defended it by telling me after working since leaving school " he deserved it "
My wife was unemployed once for a few weeks about eight years ago and got £75 a week jobseekers allowance and when she got another job it was taken back off her .
If this was indicitive of the misuse of the scheme then reform is long overdue. :o
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If this was indicitive of the misuse of the scheme then reform is long overdue. :o
I agree! When made redundant a few years ago, I was entitled to sod all because I had a decent redundancy payment ..... now all gone unfortunately :'(
Good use of the word indicative!!! :y :y :y :y
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i signed on a long time ago and the nearest place was southall job centre, used to see them turning up in brand new mercs and bmws. the poor tinkers must of been really suffering on the dole.
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i signed on a long time ago and the nearest place was southall job centre, used to see them turning up in brand new mercs and bmws. the poor tinkers must of been really suffering on the dole.
same round my way im self employed and have to work my nuts off just to have a reasonable living so winds me right up when these scroungers are living it up >:(
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I think if we started culling them it could save the public purse quite alot of money. We could start with those who haven't had a job for 10 or more years and go from there.