What have you stopped doing or buying due to rising costs?
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At least I have one.
Sorry to advise, but there are quite a lot of people dodging and weaving and living well out of the system. Were that not true, they would go out and get a job.
There is no excuse for those who are fit and reasonably healthy, to go out like the rest and do a job of work, no matter how menial.
I already live very economically, so no more changes, I just pay more and live off the fat.
Doing work at home atm.
Was looking for someone to help if and when, so I contacted 5 young boys who are sitting at home hoping that work will come their way.
They're all skint and desperate, so they say.
2 of them, after the initial enthusiasm when I called them, made excuses and didn't show up.
One called sick his very first day when we were moving furniture to storage.
Fortunately my friend finished work early that day and helped, otherwise my back would've cracked again.
The fourth one showed up, no experience whatsoever, i had to explain to him how to handle a hammer, I'm not joking!
Did 2 days and disappeared.
The fifth one is a good one.
Just been made redundant from g4s and instead of spending his redundancy pay, he's willing to do any work.
He can handle power tools and I have to force him to take breaks from the dust and sds (removing plaster atm).
What's wrong with these people?
They're desperate, I offered them 9am to 4pm job at £100/day cash, which is more than most businesses pay around here, and they don't show up!
So, I agree with you, some people don't want to work.
And on the subject of nationality...
Just as a statistic, the 3 who didn't bother at all are English.
The one who did 2 days work is half English half Brazilian and the good one willing to work is Jamaican.
Make up whatever you want from this...
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Of course there are some. But some people think that everybody is cheating the system. They're not.
Sure. But there are some who are not fit and have not just one but many health conditions, any one of which could put a severe spanner in the works when it comes to working, but together conspire to make it impossible to work.
And for those of you who think that working means you are not claiming benefits, that is not true.
There are benefits you are still entitled to even when you have a job, depending upon how many hours you do.
I wonder if these people who think that all those claiming benefits are scroungers and cheats would take any benefit due to them if they became entitled to claim said benefits?
I know of whole families, generations who despite being fit have never done a days work in their lives, plus a few individuals, who have simply swung the lead. Once they find a way onto disability, they tend to find a way to stay claiming.
I'm willing to wager that none of them are in receipt of DLA or PIP, so not really relevant to
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https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2020...stopped-his-benefits-and-he-starved-to-death/
"Because he had lost his entitlement to ESA, Mr Graham’s housing benefit was also stopped.
When bailiffs knocked down his front door to evict him on June 20, 2018, they found a dead body that weighed just four and a half stone. The only food in the flat was a couple of out-of-date tins of fish."
Or
"It was found that the rules laid down by the Conservative government had been correctly applied.
"Stephen Smith, 64, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, osteoarthritis and an enlarged prostate that left him in chronic pain, made headline news earlier this year. Shocking pictures showed him emaciated in hospital with pneumonia as his weight dropped to six stone, leaving him barely able to walk.
He failed a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) work capability assessment in 2017, which meant that his employment support allowance (ESA) payments were stopped. Instead, he was told to sign on to receive a £67 a week jobseeker’s allowance, visit the jobcentre once a week and prove that he was looking for work."
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Harry, I think the number of people who do this statistically is low.
There must be some figures on this somewhere on line, but I can't find them
Isn't the whole point that the wood cannot be seen for the trees, therefore why would they appear on statistics?
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It really is not easy to get benefits. A friend has long covid. Was highly intelligent, worked as engineer for Rolls Royce (aeroplanes), 47 years old.
Now bed bound, can't read, can only talk for about 20 minutes at a time, confused etc. Their lives have changed forever. Been almost 2 years now. Gone from wealthy middle class to living on benefits, in poverty.
His wife told me recently how she had to complete a 28 page document to apply for benefits. You need a degree just to understand half of what's asked.
Anybody who says getting benefits it's easy is lying.
Now bed bound, can't read, can only talk for about 20 minutes at a time, confused etc. Their lives have changed forever. Been almost 2 years now. Gone from wealthy middle class to living on benefits, in poverty.
His wife told me recently how she had to complete a 28 page document to apply for benefits. You need a degree just to understand half of what's asked.
Anybody who says getting benefits it's easy is lying.
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