just had a argument with my dad

he think some people on benefits go out drinking every night

what planet does he live on?

sorry i forgot to add this £4 a pint there no way on earth people on benefits can go out drinking all everyday.. on £80 to £300 a week there just no way u can do it...

Well there are people on benefits round our way that do and that's fact , they go out a damn site more than me and always seem well dressed. TBH it really p's me off as I work damn hard and I just can't afford to do it

they cant do it there no way they cant do they may be doing something dodgy, someone else is paying or they drinking superskools or ciders. No one on benefits can go out drinking all day in a pub

I go to work and there is a bum with a load of cans hanging of his hands...i go home at lunch and he has a fresh load of cans and i go home and he has more cans...no council tax no gas or leccy or water bills and no rent or mortgage to pay...100%disposable income...im quite glad i ran over his foot tonight

i know an alcoholic on benefits. he drinks from opening til about 1 or 2, goes home for a take away (chip shop or whatever) sleeps til 5, goes to shop and gets a bottle of cider drinks that, then goes to the pub from about 9-closing. Every night. So there are people who manage it!

yea but this is about going to the pub all day there no way a person on benefits could do that.

without doing something dodgy. £4 a pint most of their money got already

saddly you can go to docs say your alcohol dependent and can claim £210 a week for alcohol

bigwazza wrote:saddly you can go to docs say your alcohol dependent and can claim £210 a week for alcohol

Thats not sad its flipping awsome!!

bigwazza wrote:saddly you can go to docs say your alcohol dependent and can claim £210 a week for alcohol

£210 that wouldn't last me 2 days if i was in a pub "ALL DAY"

think im gonna go say i am!! Id love a new pair of shoes and i can totally pretend to be drunk

axam102 wrote:

bigwazza wrote:saddly you can go to docs say your alcohol dependent and can claim £210 a week for alcohol

Thats not sad its flipping awsome!!

haha but still out of order i de friended 2 people that claim this benefit as i was so disgusted
anyway dont get me started about benefits or this could get nasty lol

If i was in a pub all day i would need a least £700 a week

Hayley wrote: think im gonna go say i am!! Id love a new pair of shoes and i can totally pretend to be drunk

haha sorry you need to have reguler blood tests to make sure your topped up and liver tests to show its battered

axam102 wrote:I'm quite glad i ran over his foot tonight

Did you reverse back over it to make sure he was ok? To be fair he would probably just claim against you on free solisiters, and you'd end up owing him ££££!

We live in a very wrong world. I know it is my fault I didn't have the best insurance for Moo, but some how, working my * off I will find the money needed. Be it nearly stressing myslef to death in the mean time and on the verge of loosing my job as my head is else where.

Shame I'm not on benefits, I'd get the treatment for free! Oh and my house, and bills.........................

Steve wrote:If i was in a pub all day i would need a least £700 a week

haha id like to see you after 25 pints aday

bigwazza wrote:

Hayley wrote: think im gonna go say i am!! Id love a new pair of shoes and i can totally pretend to be drunk

haha sorry you need to have reguler blood tests to make sure your topped up and liver tests to show its battered

lol i could wing that, im irish its in the water!!

Steve wrote:they cant do it there no way they cant do they may be doing something dodgy, someone else is paying or they drinking superskools or ciders. No one on benefits can go out drinking all day in a pub

Most of them are moonlighting or shady dealings.

Caryll wrote:

Steve wrote:they cant do it there no way they cant do they may be doing something dodgy, someone else is paying or they drinking superskools or ciders. No one on benefits can go out drinking all day in a pub

Most of them are moonlighting or shady dealings.

you know me so well caryll

bigwazza wrote:

Caryll wrote:

Steve wrote:they cant do it there no way they cant do they may be doing something dodgy, someone else is paying or they drinking superskools or ciders. No one on benefits can go out drinking all day in a pub

Most of them are moonlighting or shady dealings.

you know me so well caryll

I didn't want to point the finger, but.............

Most certainly are doing something dodgy , including not paying bills or feeding their kids and claiming for everything possible they can . If someone is going to claim benefits and then decide the best place for them is the pub then it is quite obvious they are extremely dodgy with no sense of responsibility whatsoever.

And I'm going to go to the doctors and claim my alcohol benefit as a way of getting my tax back , reckon my blood and my liver will back me up no problem

Sad to say a lot of my family and friends back home are on benefits and they live a much richer lifestyle than I ever have, and I've worked and paid my way since the age of 15 when I left school! So many of them are at the pub every day, and have widescreen TV's and a few cars.. but a lot also keep popping out children for the council to fund and keep them in the same dirty clothes.. therefore spending more money on themselves. Makes me sick how slack the UK is.

sorry no one on benefits have good life's there no way on this earth someone on benefits can sit in a pub all day.... if you know someone who does then they are selling drugs or doing some dodgy, to say people benefits have much better life then people who work you must be having a laugh!

I can't imagine that all of my family are selling drugs lol! An old friend of mine had a 3 bedroom private rented house with a garden, a dog, now has four children (2 of which were in childcare for 5 days a week) her and her boyfriend both have cars, big televisions, all of the newest consoles, and go out for big nights out 2-3 nights a week; I've never known either of them to work a day in their lives. And I spent most days with them as I looked after the children for a lot of the time.. and knew where they were 99% of the time and neither were doing anything shady, they just rinsed the council for everything that they could.

Where as I was working up to 60 hours a week and could barely afford a one bedroom flat, can't afford to drive and could only just afford food for the month. Just talking from personal experience

get yourself on benefits and tell me about your great life

I grew up poor on a council estate and didn't enjoy the feeling of living off of others hard earned money, so I'd prefer not to, thank you. I worked my * off and changed things for myself, but I'm still broke! I understand of course that some people simply cannot work for various reasons, and I have no issue with them getting help of course, but so many can and choose not to because of the easy lifestyle that it brings. Just being honest!

to say people who's on benefit have such great life's is totally wrong....

people who are have a good life on benefits are breaking the law!!

I'm not claiming that about everybody on benefits of course, I've not met every person in the world on benefits and wouldn't make that generalization. As stated previously, just giving examples from personal experience

All good points but how many of these people having the good life are people on benefits and also taking at least 45% of ex-partners wages supposed to be for the children but pays for the ex and her new fella to enjoy life? AND yet we are still expected to clothe the children when they visit and send the clothes home when they leave? sorry rant over

it think most of you are falling for the Tories lies it's a very sad to see so much hate toward people who need help..

No hate intended unless you count my ex lol.Everyone needs help at times some desperately need it and cant get it because of the few

I'm just gobsmacked about the alcohol benefit! WTH??

Had no idea this happened. Perplexing.

PygmyParrot wrote:I'm just gobsmacked about the alcohol benefit! WTH??

Had no idea this happened. Perplexing.

You and me both!

I'm not really sure that I understand it. Surely, that money would be better spent helping the person get rid of the alcohol problem!

i want to see proof of a alcohol benefit, i cant see it myself

well the topic not about what people can claim it's about people not having a great life on benefits and people who think they are believing to much on what other people say to them, only people who as it good are people who does something dodgy while claming benefit.

Hmm. I read an article about it just now, which outlines benefits given to those who are dependent on alcohol or drugs. The general idea seems to be that the W.H.O. sees alcoholism as a disease which could be due to genetic defects, so the benefits are given to people whose alcohol dependence interferes with their ability to work.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2183078/Alcoholism-devastating-disease-state-funding-rehabilitation.html

It does seem very surprising that people manage to go out on drinking days when they're on benefits, I'll admit. Then again, I don't know much about it.

Me either, I have worked since I was 15 and put myself through uni working 50 hours a week. I still went out drinking though

there no way on this earth people on benefits can go out drinking all day.

How much money would somebody generally get on benefits?

to sit in a pub all day then you would need £££ a lot more then you could ever claim. When i go out normally 6pm to early hours in the morning i could spend £60/70 depending where i go, so if you drink all do you would need at least £100 plus there no way anybody is going to get £100s a week to drink in a pub.

Yikes, that's expensive!

i went to to one place 1 and half pints nearly cost me £10

Thats why half of them used to drink at the club for £2.20 a pint!

even at £2.20 people on benefits wont be able to afford to drink all day in a pub...

i've had enough of the topic now it's boring me now

Just a small thought, I live on less than what benefits pay after you take out my taxes, rent and mortgage. Oh and when I was sacked from a prior job (unfair dissmal) I couldn't even sign on as I wasn't eligible, and housing benefit offered me £10 p/m!

Work that one out.

I will point this out drinking in a pub all day you would need i about 20/30 pints plus a day

say at £2.2o for a pint

20 pints x £2.20 = £44 x 7 days = £308
25 pints x £2.20 = £55 x 7 days = £385
30 pints x £2.20 = £66 x 7 days = £462

see impossible

janey wrote:
Just a small thought, I live on less than what benefits pay after you take out my taxes, rent and mortgage. Oh and when I was sacked from a prior job (unfair dissmal) I couldn't even sign on as I wasn't eligible, and housing benefit offered me £10 p/m!

Work that one out.

show me prove of this

You should have been a maths teacher Steve



p.s theres not a test is there? Dexter ate my revision papers

How much?
If you're aged 16-24 you receive £56.25 a week
If you're aged 25 or over you receive £71 a week

Steve wrote:I will point this out drinking in a pub all do you would need i dont 20/30 plus

say at £2.2o for a pint

20 pints x £2.20 = £44 x 7 days = £308
25 pints x £2.20 = £55 x 7 days = £385
30 pints x £2.20 = £66 x 7 days = £462

see impossible

Yes ok Steve

Steve wrote:

show me prove of this

I am proof it happened after the club!

Benefits are ridiculous in my opinion.

Nobody has taken account of the minesweepers