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289 replies

clairec1 · 29/11/2011 15:16

hi there, im a mum of 4 and one on the way, the father to my unborn child is also the father of my youngest, and a few weeks back we sat down and talked and we agreed on giving a relationship ago but im worried if this will affected my benefits i get, income support, child benefit and child tax credit but he doesnt live with me he lives at his parents house where he pays his bills etc............ Thanks for any advice

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tethersend · 29/11/2011 20:09

maypole, did you not approach the school about it?

Schools have a fund to help parents who cannot afford school trips. You and the six other parents could have applied.

And can you tell me why you posted a link to the figures from herts direct please?

ShirleyKnot · 29/11/2011 20:10

And once the free money is stopped, and we're STILL hurtling out of control which sector of society will be next? (cos the benefit claimants will be..erm..gone somewhere, as yet unsaid) gotta tell you maypole, the amount of money saved by removing ALL benefits from everyone in society ain't going to fix this mess we're in.

Keep going though, but that vein in your forehead is bulging!

maypole1 · 29/11/2011 20:10

Don't care weather they have a better telly or not even if its made out of paper with a picture drawn on the front I just don't want to pay for it

tethersend · 29/11/2011 20:10

"They even got the PTA to help pay for equipment for the children gurrrr"

Ha HA! I missed that bit!

The bastards

Grin
maypole1 · 29/11/2011 20:12

ShirleyKnot no but having the work shy and their 10 kids and then their 10 kids on the dole certainly won't help will it.

maypole1 · 29/11/2011 20:14

Not really shirey I know the money is going to be stoped so I feel fine

It's the scroungers whose head will be bulging when they go to draw their dole and the amount say £0.00

Moominsarescary · 29/11/2011 20:16

If everyone is made to work it will cost more than £12000 a year in childcare costs for 5 children

Or shall we just bring back the work house and dump them all in there

ShirleyKnot · 29/11/2011 20:18

BTW, 12k for a full working woulds be under NMW, and if there were children it would be topped up using tax credits - so y'know...what?

What proportion of people on benefits do you believe to be workshy?

What percentage of benefit claims would you stop completely starting tomorrow?

usualsuspect · 29/11/2011 20:19

So maypole what will happen to all the scroungers when they have £0.00 free money?

Dawndonna · 29/11/2011 20:35

Yes, maypole it's your tax, and yours alone that is paying for all the benefit scrounging scum like me. Hmm

SoftKittyWarmKitty · 29/11/2011 20:48

Completely off tangent but I accidentally on purpose clicked on the nethuns link. I've never been on there before. Do they register with their real names? And why are there numbers in brackets after their names? For instance 'Julie-Ann (142)'. Just wondering, like.

As you were.

Dillydaydreaming · 29/11/2011 20:51

This is well worth a read for those who think benefit claimants are "scroungers". Enjoy and be educated folks!Smile

tethersend · 29/11/2011 20:53

Not you Dawndonna, you're deserving doncha know. maypole doesn't mind her tax going to you. Mind you say thank you, now Wink

MincePieFlavouredVoidka · 29/11/2011 21:05

'But my hard earned tax goes to pay for your benefits'

We always get the same whiny response on these threads, but the frothers never want to think about the services they use that are supported by tax, like schools, hospitals and police. They dont take your tax and put it in a special pot marked benefits.

Maypole - do you get child benefit? Tax credits?

zukiecat · 29/11/2011 21:13

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IneedAbetterNickname · 29/11/2011 21:15

SoftKitty I don't remember being able to choose a nickname (I used to use netmums, before I discovered netmums) and I think the number is how many posts they have made.

MincePieFlavouredVoidka · 29/11/2011 21:27

The number in brackets is the number Julie Anne that you are. So the first Sarah to register would be Sarah(1) and the one hundredth Sarah would be Sarah(100)

NinkyNonker · 29/11/2011 21:40

All those dole scroungers eh.

Well, I don't earn at the moment (either do I claim, keep your hats on) but I have paid in a lot, as does DH at the moment. I've chatted with him, and he feels that as this is his tax, he'd like to decide where it goes. So if all benefit claimants could post their circumstances, working status when pregnant, television size, confirm whether there is a pool in their back garden and itemise all of their expenditure (including Asda shop) he'd appreciate it, then he could decide who to pay.

He isn't too fussed on Triton, or MP's paypackets...so there is a saving there.

Dawndonna · 29/11/2011 21:44

ninky
Will he pay for naice ham?

Ilovepigs · 29/11/2011 21:46

Perhaps this sense of entitlement would end if we renamed benefits-how about tax payers charity fund? Has a ring to it dont you think?

Get0rf · 29/11/2011 21:52

Oh bloody hell. What tethers and shirley and others have already said.

Will the stupid people STOP reading the shite in the Daily Mail and repeating it word for word?

Moominsarescary · 29/11/2011 21:55

I still want to know what maypole wants to happen to all those on benefits when they are stopped as she claims

Bit bloody naive to think that will happen though IMO

Olderyetwilder · 29/11/2011 21:55

Why are you having a fifth child that you can't support?

Ilovepigs · 29/11/2011 21:57

Tax payers benevolence pot?

Moominsarescary · 29/11/2011 21:58

The op has allready said her and her partner at the time were working before she got pg and they split up