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Is the WHOLE country on benefits?
Is the WHOLE country on benefits?
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Africa is effectively a continent on benefits.
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private rents should be capped so the need for hosing benefit for working people is not needed.
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True benefit coatings
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jan/08/uk-benefit-welfare-spending |
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G1_Jockey_4 24 Oct 14 19:55
private rents should be capped so the need for hosing benefit for working people is not needed. There was talk about benefit being capped at £400 a week. That would see evictions in London and the south for a family who are not working at all. |
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i was on about rents not benefits.
reduce rents and housing benefits fall as well.... any person letting out heir property should have their rents capped . |
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Agree with jockey. Dont know if cmat was just not reading his post or going off on a tangent as usual.
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G1_Jockey_4 24 Oct 14 20:08
i was on about rents not benefits. If you own a house in London and are using the rent to pay the mortgage, if the rent gets lowered you may not be able to afford the the mortgage. What do you do? Let the tenant live there and lose the house, or evict them and sell it? |
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Sub the mortgage with savings or sell it, not rocket science. Can sell it with a sitting tenant.
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I pulled in at Newport Pagnell services on the M1 this afternoon for a p1ss and there were two coach loads of what appeared to be either Bulgarians or Romanians. They seemed very excited about being in the UK.
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On their way to Chester?
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EVERY BODY TALKS TO SUIT THEIR SELVES,AND WHATS IN THEIR INTEREST ,
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THERES PEOPLE WHO WOULDNT GIVE YOU A ROLLO IF THEY HAD A FULL PKT NEVER MIND THEIR LAST ONE
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Question for you: Which city receives the most working-age benefits per head?
Would you guess Liverpool? Newcastle? Manchester? Wrong, wrong and wrong. It is London, by a country mile. Why? Housing Benefit (and HB paid via Working Tax Credits). Somebosy PLEASE ask a politician how a family man in London can afford to pay rent on his £400k house when he works at Tesco on minimum wage. We need to make employers pay a fair wage so people can pay their own rent, and stop subsidising landlords using the country's money. It is an absolute scandal. |
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What happened to Jimmy69?
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He can still be found in nibbsys quiz room on occasion.
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If you own a house in London and are using the rent to pay the mortgage, if the rent gets lowered you may not be able to afford the the mortgage.
surely you should be using your job to pay the mortgage and not relying on rent. the rental market is still prone to volatility....its gambling |
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and the answer is is any houses flats etc get repossesed then the banks should be made to use new lower rent levels to claim back their money.
id also introduce a new law where anyone selling a second home at a profit pays top whack in tax on that profit(50%) need to encourage a slow down gradually imo to get rents and house prices at a good healthy level. mp's and other buy to letters should eb taking a big hit on this imo for the sake of the UK |
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5 Million of the UK Population of 60 Million are claiming some kind of Benefit,
it can even be Pensioners claiming Heating allowences, There are 1.8 Million claiming Unemployment Benefit, There are 0.5 Million Not claiming Because of their age 16-18 or because if they did claim they would have to Agree to look for work and they don't want to because they have enough Financial Cash/Allowances Funds of their own, But they should still sign on to get their N.Ins contributions paid (Not the 16-18 year olds). There so many immigrants and people looking for work and some are doing 2-3 jobs a week, There has Never been a Better time to run a Big Business and be and Employer, You can Never be short of Staff on the Minimum Wage or even Less. Forget the Thousands of Jobs Advertised on Websites, they are Fake and Not Available. Many People have Taken Rigging, Banksman, Safety, Survival Off/Onshore Courses with a well known firm (Falck)in England and Scotland, 200 per week, 12 Months later only 20% are Employed. |
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I Think you will find 750,000 Empty property`s in the UK,
3/4 of the UK is Green, the City`s are Overpopulated. |
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i've had a property standing empty for 8 months and counting
 the system is so slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww |
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G1_Jockey_4 25 Oct 14 11:39
If you own a house in London and are using the rent to pay the mortgage, if the rent gets lowered you may not be able to afford the the mortgage. surely you should be using your job to pay the mortgage and not relying on rent. the rental market is still prone to volatility....its gambling That would depend on how many properties you own, and how much the mortgage is costing. Frank Lampard senior for example, and his asian business partner, own quite a few properties in Newham. I know one bloke who buys delapidated houses and refurbishes them before putting tenants in. He owns about 45 houses in the southern half of Newham, but has no interest in the northern half of the borough. 40 houses is a lot of rent to collect, and it's a lot of rent lost if it had to be lowered. He'd probably sell the lot. |
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I Seen him on Homes under the Hammer
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DONT WORRY ABOUT EMPTY PROPERTIES THE RUMANIANS ARE COMEING AND THEY WILL OCCUPY THEM
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The only reason there are properties to let is because we no longer have rent control. Cap the rents and landlords will sell the properties off and pull out of the game just like they did prior to 1987.
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There was talk about benefit being capped at £400 a week.
That would see evictions in London and the south for a family who are not working at all. Financial Cleansing people being turfed out to the South Coast ,Look at the state of Clacton Last Time I went Fontwell and stayed at Bognor Places was full of Poles and eastern Euros .. |
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We actually get Child tax credits as our joint income is quite low, you get this regardless of how much savings you may have & in a way that does not seem quite right.
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I wouldn't take tax credits if they begged me.
What have we become..communist? Stand alone, cut your cloth accordingly and smile.  Life rocks.  |
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Would you take your pension when you are due to receive it ?
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Well, by the time I'm due, I would have paid in for 49 years so probably yes.
Although I have no plans to 'retire'. I shall work till I die. |
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Well if you have paid NI for over 30 years & have very little chance of living to receive your pension you may well think again.
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I'm happy to contribute to others' needs. I plan to work as long as I'm here.
I have no private pension and I have no plan to rely on a state pension ( it was never designed to be a sole income anyway.) We need to stand alone. Govt help is a last resort. That's the way I was brought up. |
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my contract ,job says i get full pay even if i,m off and they dont get you in till you,ve had 3 different periods off,i wouldnt dream of having time off as long as i could make it and your talking 5,6 years since i couldnt make it and pulled a sickie,theres people been there less than a year and had more days off than ive had in 30 years,
but what annoys me is the firm just carry on paying the sickies and not a word is said to those who try and play the game,why dont firms through extra hols,bonus,s etc try to reward those who play the game ,i,m sure if people saw fellow workers getting a few freebies less sickies would be pulled,and off course the opposite happens when people dont get as much as a nod for playing the game they eventualy join the gravey train |
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Injera
26 Oct 14 19:20 Joined: 04 Jan 03 | Topic/replies: 5,829 | Blogger: Injera's blog I'm happy to contribute to others' needs. I plan to work as long as I'm here. I have no private pension and I have no plan to rely on a state pension ( it was never designed to be a sole income anyway.) We need to stand alone. Govt help is a last resort. That's the way I was brought up I hope you are joking Injera. I took early retirement to enjoy life. On a private pension but had to delve into savings from time to time but will be okay when Govt pension kicks in, that will fill the gap with a few k left over to save. |
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I only read the first half of the first page and felt an imminent reply was required, so if this has already been mentioned then so be it...How about creating full time jobs with decent paid wages instead of a million part time jobs ranging from 8hrs per week to 20 hrs per week?
Hence the government bullsh!ting the gullible public into thinking these parasites are getting more people into work. Bastards one and all - There's a few on here too. P.S. Good fishing by the OP. |
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...Another thread from 4 years ago
 1st time poster, god help you if for some unforseen reason you ever get ill or worse, have to give up work through an injury incurred by someone's incompetence. ME ME ME |
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Good for you Akabula.
No, not joking, happy to stay busy and keep the work/play balance separate. One of the wonderful things about this country is our volunteer network. So many opportunities to do some good things. I do a bit but would like to increase it as I get older. |