To be claiming some benefits.....

[CardyMow]

When DP works FT? DP earns £16K before tax. We get : £140 a week Child tax credits. £76 a week Working tax credit. £46 a week child benefit. £ 122 a week Housing benefit. We have 3 dc. I am a SAHM because no-one will emloy me due to my epilepsy, but I no longer get any disability benefits in respect of this. What I can't work out from all the hoo-ha on MN lately about benefits 'scroungers' is whether DP and I are unreasonable to claim what's available?

Soooo. Are we benefits scroungers because we get £384 a week in benefits. Or are we not benefits scroungers because DP works FT and pays tax? Where does the collective wisdom of MN stand on that?

[granted]

Feeling bad now - agree your epilepsy LL and Riven's situations are tough.

If it makes you feel any better, our children's school transport costs £75/week.

So still think you could find enough for a cheap holiday in there somewhere. And wasn't suggesting you were trying to crow about your benefits - would actually have minded that less. It was the fact that you didn't seem to appreciate them that annoyed me.

It's all bloody irritating.

Why is the cost of living so outrageously expensive????

[ccpccp]

Why dont you get disability any longer, Loudlass?

[ccpccp]

You do talk shit thesecondcoming.

A bit less pompous?

[usualsuspect]

I don't pay my taxes brigade out in force on this thread

[tethersend]

Helloooo fucking moron number two

We meet again.

[usualsuspect]

Nothing on my big TV to watch, Tethers

thought I would spot how many said 'I don't pay my taxes' ,kinda lost count though

[Tigerbomb]

My two children are now grown up, I have just bought a house (cheaper because it is a fixer upper), my husband and I both work and earn 40K between us. We both work in the private sector so as far as I know we are not looking at redundancy at the moment and we do not get a single benefit. I will also add that I have a serious health problem that means my mortality could be seriously limited
BUT
I do not begrudge one single penny of my taxes being spent on those less fortunate then ourselves. Not even on the so called work shy.
Yes there are those that abuse the system, but there are far more out there that, through no fault of there own, are unable to or cant find work.
I would rather my taxes paid for all to have basic decent standard of living then to have one family suffer.

Yes I appreciate some cuts have to be made, but make them fair to all

[tethersend]

Actually, on reflection, I think I want my taxes to be spent on flocking.

Yes, I'd like Britain to be flocked.

I don't pay my taxes so we can all sit here in unflocked housing.

Another example of Broken Britain if you ask me.