Is this likely to happen? Benefit related.

[littlemisssarcastic]

And where would it end?? Is this just the start of a slippery slope ?

Ghostship, I think you need some money management advice if £3.99 for a bottle of plonk is not something you can imagine someone being able to budget for!

Personally I don't know how anyone can have enough left over for a bottle of wine.

yup - I guess 'some' people don't know how to budget. ;)

Im on benefits and i cant even afford 4 days in a caravan park, but i seen others on benefits with tons of luxuries, i dont know how they do it.

And now that if your a single parent and you youngest is 5 you are expected to find work now, so not everyone is gonna stay in the luxury of benefits.

Well thats if you can found a job, 3 months now and still no joy.

I think people on benefits save money for the government.

for child care you can be entitled up to £122.50 for 1 child while income support is £56.25

GhostShip are there a lot of job vacancies in Wigan?

Ghost ship, you just made me chuckle! Oh to be young and naive again!

lol I am glad I do not drink wine sounds pricey !!!

I've done that before Dawn, I had been up 3 times already and couldn't handle any more so just took him home. In fact it happened so often his teacher gave me class materials and I home schooled in the afternoons. Oh joy, that was an amazing time! And no I didn't deny myself a bottle glass of wine of an evening.

Ghostship, I think you need some money management advice if £3.99 for a bottle of plonk is not something you can imagine someone being able to budget for!
I'm on minimum wage, rent my own place, pay my own bills and live decently without the help of one benefit so don't tell me I can't budget.

If you're on JSA which is what, £71 a fortnight? £4 is a lot to be spending on booze.

I have no idea how much jsa is, I know my wine prices though

Jsa is £71 a week. I am sure that will stretch to a bottle of wine every week or two.

Ghost ship, you just made me chuckle! Oh to be young and naive again

Do behave with your patronising. I let you know my age because I expect to be treated like anyone else would - not to be fronted with the old 'ah young and naive' line. You know nothing about me.

I work in benefits for my LA and think it is a disgusting idea. Imagining the reaction from some of my clients on hearing this proposal is upsetting me.

NOBODY should have to beg, nobody should go cold or hungry. The des erupting and the undeserving poor is a right wing construct, let's not give it credence.
Very well said. We are all in it together.

I'm just imagining all those thrilled tv stations losing Aldi/wonga advertising and any advertisers aiming at the retired claiming pension credit or whatever, perhaps - purely to save the taxpayer money of course - satellite tv should only be allowed for people of any income who can prove their BMI is in the ideal range. Think of what the NHS would save if no one was anorexic or overweight as a result of the wicked gogglebox

I think its very important that we properly consider ways to make sure that benefit money goes into the hands of larger businesses rather than into the hands of local shopkeepers or friends of the claimant.

If Tescos can supply the grocery card, EON the power card, Local private water companies the water card, and Fox/Sky the TV and internet card, then we will have no leakage and all the money will be paid to tory crony companies.

I am sure that this will make sure that no money is on the black market and that there will be no bartering. What is great about this scheme is that not only can we ensure that government money misses local traders, it also goes to companies who can transfer it overseas through their shareholders!

Everyone's a winner! Pity the benefit figures are so low - its only 10% of what 30,000 bankers were paid in 2010 - if big companies are going to make real money out of the unemployed AND make sure that high tax payers are able to make their money back in share trading, we really are going to need more people on the dole, and that, kids, is what the Tories are really really good at...

Thing is Ghost Ship we do know about you, we know you're happy to benefits bash.
As I said earlier, do find a little Christmas Spirit, do try reading my posts. That or kindly sod off.

It is 71 a fortnight, same as income support, i only by booze as gifts or maybe a yearly treat, i have things i need to get.

GhostShip are there a lot of job vacancies in Wigan?

Jsa is £71 a week but it is paid fortnightly. The same with income support.

dawndonna if you don't want to hear views on benefits, YOU sod off from a topic about them.

mini I don't know. Why don't you look.