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Blood. Boil. My. Makes.
What on earth is going on?
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I know! - I never win sod all...
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!)m people did not win £10m each. You're considered a winner even if you get a £10.00 prize.
The most I ever got was £1,700.00 with Five main numbers.
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Do you mean the 9.7 million winner M Carroll or the 5.1 million winner P Kyle ?
both of whom blew their winnings like a pair of fools they must surely be, but thats what happens when the brainless get lucky, do you remember years ago some woman winning £75,000 on the football pools ?, she did the same thing with her win.
The only consolation is that had they not won such an absurd amount, they might have been on the dole anyway.
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Robert Moffat?
He won £800,000. He spent large sums defending a paternity claim which was proved negative, but as a result the marriage he was in went to the wall. Id imagine she had a proportion of it.
When some people are suddenly presented witha large sum of money they dont always have the capabilities of understanding the full impact and longer term. They spend without thinking, not wise, but who are we to judge?
Id imagine he certainly paid a huge amount in taxes on that and far more than he will ever claim probably.
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In the case of the 9.7 million winner ,Carroll, most of his winnings went on drugs and prostitutes, so the taxman lost out there.
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This is a disabled bloke who's getting £600pm in disability benefits, I think he must be on the highest rate of DLA, thats not means tested. His wife justified it by saying he's entitiled to it so he should keep recieving it and saying that they give away far more than £600pm anyway.
If I'd won 10m, I'd be to ashamed to claim anything, its not right and gives everyother claimant a bad name, theres loads of people getting thier incapacity benefits taken away from them in what is nothing more than a cost cutting exercise that could use £600pm far better.
I know it sounds harsh but these are selfish and ignorant people, they maybe elderly and they may have paid into the system all their lives, but this is totally lacking in any sense of dignity and morality.
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You mean this case?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/lottery-couple-defend-benefit-claim-074153549.html
Even if one might disapprove of the morality of collecting this one benefit, which he was already getting, once he won the money, it's a fact that he is not breaking any regulations nor defrauding the system.
It's a non-means tested benefit. Blame the system.
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Maybe not means tested but totally immoral.
Listen - 10 million, even in the building society would yield 3% = 300,000 a year - £6,000 a week,
£3,600 a WEEK after tax. My conscience would not let me claim benefit!
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Robm99...
Listen - 10 million, even in the building society would yield 3% = 300,000 a year - £6,000 a week,
£3,600 a WEEK after tax.* My conscience would not let me claim benefit!*
Ok, so if that was the case that would mean he would be having £2,400 per week deducted by the tax man and you're concerned about him claiming £600 a month? The net flow of money is likely to be TO the government so I wouldn't worry too much over it.
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So he is paying £2,400 per week in tax?
The £600 per month is more than covered then...
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I'm not concerned about the money - it's the moral principle.
Benefits are supposed to help those in need- not greed.
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It would appear some folks worry far to much about things that have no impact at all upon thier own lives!
The fresh winter air is lovely today! Maybe the off button on the puter would be a much better option for both mind and body!
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Hi pete mmm but he had a smile on his face mmm what a complete twat.
there are some people out their that will only dream of these great wins but i bet if you was to win such large sum it would be very scarrry
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Hi Nigel neither would mine
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Its the attitude that gets me
Disability allowance as with the car they get renewed every 3 years is to HELP as they would STRUGGLE without the benefit...
No its not means tested...but as many have said... i would not take it if had won that amount of money.
Cg
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Classygirl...
"Disability allowance as with the car they get renewed every 3 years is to HELP as they would STRUGGLE without the benefit"
Would they struggle? I think you're making a huge assumption there. Just because someone is disabled it certainly dose NOT follow that they would struggle without the disability allowance.
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Depends what is meant by "struggle".
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Nigel, 'concerned' is perhaps a slightly inappropriate word. How do you think you might feel if you read that after two years on JSA as a result of an unfair dismissal?
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I think I will have breakfast and then follow MRC's suggestion...
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Nigel
I just mean that it is to assist because of disability ...
I know someone who received disability allowances , car etc rented a house much bigger than her needs beacuse it was all paid for by the state,,,
She could go out dancing, walk unaided and livedd a normal life on a very nice income.
I always thought it strange that she was allowed all these benefits when someone else years older who same thing wentback to work ...as once had " this op" was fit again...thats the point of the op.
but it meant pills and check ups for the rest of their lives.
She has since been told to move to a dweling more fitting her needs and not her preferance and has sincce had the car benefit stopped...
but that was not till neally 20 years after ...
Its just the attitude of many claimants of any benefit...
Its not just benefits...
eg The ambulance service is abused... used as a taxi service...as if its a right , with no concern for true 999 cases
it all just makes me grrr...
cg
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Tim, I wouldn't spend 2 years on JSA. I would have found another job well within that time!
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Nigel, you should think yourself fortunate to be able to.
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mrc is nice and sanctimonious as usual...
the whole point is that the left dont like means testing. if you dont have means testing then you do get social injustice such as this. it's one or the other as some people are greedy. the same people that dont like means testing then complain when someone gets paid a lot for doing a job.
it would be irony if they were bright enough.
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Is it down to fortune or an attitude of mind?
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