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How can it be right that you can get so much money on benefits?!?!

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TerrazzoChips · 27/12/2025 21:17

How on earth can this be right? Link

it doesn’t include disability benefits but does include housing allowance and childcare costs. But a single earner will also have those?

I despair and could honestly cry. I am genuinely considering having another child and dropping my hours. I would be better off. I hate this so much.

Forget working, how you could be better off on benefits under Labour!

Benefit-claiming parents who work as little as a day a week are set for bumper pay packets worth the equivalent of £140,000 next year - and it's all thanks to Labour's 'Benefit Street Budget'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15388599/better-benefits-labour-analysis-graphic.html

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TigerRag · 27/12/2025 21:29

This is the third time I've seen this today. Nice to see that no research seems to have been done

REDB99 · 27/12/2025 21:27

These articles are designed to encourage rage. There may be some circumstances where this is accurate but I always think long term. People in this position will never own a home, won’t have a pension and once their kids grow up will be significantly worse off.

I am a single parent, I have earn too much to even claim child benefit which two people earning 60K each can claim. Their 120K salaries are 35K higher than mine yet they are entitled to something I’m not. It does make me angry as it simply isn’t fair. However, I am working, will own my own home outright in a few years, I’ll have a pension of approx 45K a year. I do me and other people can do them, don’t let it make you weep, focus on what you can control and carry on.

SweeetFannyAdams · 27/12/2025 21:27

UserFront242 · 27/12/2025 21:26

Wow, people are fucking BORED between Xmas and New Year. May as well benefit bash, eh?

Honestly, every second thread at the moment seems to have been started by bored people with limited imagination.

caramac04 · 27/12/2025 21:26

Octavia64 · 27/12/2025 21:23

Yeah they’ve had to do a lot of messing about to make this work,

in particular three lots of childcare at what looks like the max rate.

£10k wages between 2 adults won’t require full time childcare if any whatsoever.

UserFront242 · 27/12/2025 21:26

Wow, people are fucking BORED between Xmas and New Year. May as well benefit bash, eh?

Contrarymary30 · 27/12/2025 21:26

TerrazzoChips · 27/12/2025 21:17

How on earth can this be right? Link

it doesn’t include disability benefits but does include housing allowance and childcare costs. But a single earner will also have those?

I despair and could honestly cry. I am genuinely considering having another child and dropping my hours. I would be better off. I hate this so much.

You've got to look at where this has come from , in this case The Daily Mail which is a horrible right wing rag . If the article provides a break down (which is unlikely) you should be able to see that this is nonsense .

BeforeSigourneyWeaverTheyWoveTheirOwnSigourneys · 27/12/2025 21:25

Why just have one more child?

Life is so super easy on benefits you could have quite a few kids.

If you stick around MN long enough you'll see everyone on benefits has fancy cars, multiple long haul holidays, all the latest tech....

You, too, could be living the dream.

DarkEyedSailor · 27/12/2025 21:24

Do it then.

VikaOlson · 27/12/2025 21:24

How could a couple be earning £10k between them?
If they were on UC they'd have to be working 30 hours a week if the children are over 3, right?
They're not going to be getting £1000 a month in childcare costs if they're only working 1 day a week anyway.

AutumnAllTheWay · 27/12/2025 21:24

Do it then!

Stop whining and get thee onto benefits, easy.

🙄 Why dont you?

So bloody gullible....

Thedownwardspiralpath · 27/12/2025 21:24

Stop reading tripe. 🙄😴

DontPokeMe · 27/12/2025 21:23

Don't believe everything you read to be gospel.

wossupthen · 27/12/2025 21:23

I thought it had been a while. Yep it's definitely true! Absolutely 100% FACTS

Benefits are equal to AT LEAST 71K a year. Everyone on benefits is lying, er, you can get a car if you say you're fed up and houses are totally free.
Have missed anything?

Octavia64 · 27/12/2025 21:23

Yeah they’ve had to do a lot of messing about to make this work,

in particular three lots of childcare at what looks like the max rate.

Poms · 27/12/2025 21:22

You’re easily fooled.

RudolphTheReindeer · 27/12/2025 21:22

Why don't you then? Why doesn't everyone? Presumably because they know they wouldn't be better off at all.

youalright · 27/12/2025 21:21

🤣🤣🤣 daily mail it makes me laugh how a couple of months ago it was all about spreading misinformation about disabled people and pip and now that hasn't worked they are going after young families.

BatchCookBabe · 27/12/2025 21:20

Oh YAY, the bi-weekly benefit bashing thread has arrived. And it's a DAILY MAIL link.... 😆

Grabs popcorn! 🍿

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