That some people on UC are well off?
Maybe you can point out someone in that situation since you appear to be one of those millions 'in the know'?
Good afternoon
I'm not going to breach the DPA just to prove a point but as the poster, Stivno gave you example I could give you hundreds.
I worked on the front line of a couple of council directorates and visited people in council owned property and all other types of ownership and rented property for many, many years.
It was not my job to prove benefits fraud etc but you needed to be quiet simple not to note it judging by what I saw and times told.
A typical example:
Couple claims to be split up but living together subletting at least one property. They cite cant work more than x hours as "its not worth it, init."
Meaning their benefits would be reduced.
Others citing hardship but always had mum disability SUV, able to fill her up, have the latest mobiles, real or fake desginer clothing, toys and games in the property like a toy shop, often more than one dog to feed, talking about not being able to go abroad and had to have hols away from home (they cost money) smoking often both of them, drinking. I got this from most claiming hardship - "Johhnys not going without as its Chrizmas, init... or johhnys birthday..". or a mates birth one of a few dozen mates
For sure some need it but even those outside the criteria for UC etc are suffering and most of these people own their own home or rented privately and may lose their homes where they have paid off tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds but because everthing is going up inc mortgage rates they cant afford it. What about their UC????
Most of the posters on this site have never claimed benefits and we all know it is there should things go seriously wrong and rightly so. However, most on these forums have at least one property and as many more than one often paid off via hard work and manging money ad not trying to run before walking.
Why should the extra UC continue and why cant people/mps state the truth as he like all of us are not referring to everything but those that we are talking about.
What saddnes me is these clowns/politicians beg for your votes and the tories make false promiese of making it worthwhile if you work/ed and are "prudent" with our money that has been taxed several times but come care home fees, IHT we are ****ed very hard.
Labour bleats to those that are often on benefits and they let them down as well as everyone elese
The only winners are the politicians for cert along with big business, their chums and those that can work and wont almost everyone else is shafted hard.