to worry that some people on benefits won't manage when payments are made monthly

[SuedeEffectPochette]

Of course, many people on benefits are doubtless great at managing a budget, but at the moment people are paid weekly, so if money runs out, it's only a day or so (still bad enough). But when payments are monthly, some people may have a couple of weeks of no money - what is going to happen to them? Also Housing Benefit won't be paid direct to landlords any more, which will lead to a massive increase in homelessness if that money is not passed on. If you have run out of money for food, you won't be paying any to your landlord will you? I think the government should stick to weekly payments.

[Bogeyface]

If all people were treated equally you wouldnt bitch about benefit claimants but hey ho!

This isnt about equality you bloody idiot, but about some people who find it hard to understand the concept of managing money at the best of times and how they will find it impossible on a monthly budget, they will starve, or steal or sell themselves in order to survive when the money runs out. They will become homeless and then cost you and your precious taxes far more than they do now. Way to think ahead

[Bogeyface]

Reposting, just in case see if you can spot the deliberate mistake!

If all people were treated equally you wouldnt bitch about benefit claimants but hey ho!

This isnt about equality, but about some people who find it hard to understand the concept of managing money at the best of times and how they will find it impossible on a monthly budget, they will starve, or steal or sell themselves in order to survive when the money runs out. They will become homeless and then cost you and your precious taxes far more than they do now. Way to think ahead hmm

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

:o

[Booyhoo]

marriedinwhite i cant work out whether you live in the 1950's or the 2050's! people still get paid weekly here in 2013. you live on planet earth in the UK right?

[AudrinaAdare]

Oh that is nice that you can go to bed and get up bright and early for work for money. You may not believe it but many people would envy you for that. Personally, I'm on the night-shift with my disabled child.

[marriedinwhite]

One would hope the parents care if their children are hungry and cold and are prepared to take responsibility for it. If the parents don't; then it is a sorry state indeed and perhaps those sorts of parents need to be discouraged from having child after child that they cannot provide for financially. I would have loved to have been feckless but nobody was going to come and pick up the pieces. Society cannot keep picking up the pieces because some people expect them to be picked up without thinking about the consequences. The children most certainly should not suffer but ultimately it is the parents who cause the suffering and somehow the suffering has to cease without the children suffering but I'm not sure that is achieved by the continual stream of benefits and subsidised housing. Hostels, parenting guidance, supervision, earning responsibility all have a place.

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

Hostels?

Ah you are of the "12 to a room" mindset that I have witnessed on here!

Workhouses.

[Booyhoo]

the sort of 'hostel' that was popular in ireland in the last century? the ones that 'catered for' women of questionable morality? is that the sort you mean? i might be wrong but i think they've gotten a bit of a bad rep recently. folk might not be so keen. cant think why

[Bogeyface]

I dont see why Boo.

12 hours of forced work whilst being abused is the best remedy for being raped isnt it?

[starsandunicorns]

Married lots of people who WORK still get paid weekly. I work for an angency as does my dp we get paid weekly.

We dont claim any benfits and due to work being slack this week our joint income this week is 174 pounds we have rent counicl tax money for to put in the meter and pertol for the car.( we need the car as I could be placed anyway within 20 miles of our flat at unsoicable hours) are we bad people as we get weekly paid we work bloody hard in uncertain times.

I have been on benfits before and have known lots of people and some manage well, others dont ie paying rent on time or blowing it on a bender.
I would of being happy to have monthly benfit payment as would of been easier but others struggled just on weekly payments.

[marriedinwhite]

AIBU clearly needs a new rule:

"only those who agree with the left and every OP should post".

Somewhat Orwellian I think.

There is nothing wrong with planning. There is nothing wrong with working. There is nothing wrong with claiming benefits if you are unable to work for health or genuine caring reasons. There is everything wrong with expecting others to pick up the tab because it is too easy to get someone else to pay for your mistakes.

[akaemmafrost]

MIW you are the Daily Mail in human form. Terrifying.

[Booyhoo]

of course, you are right bogey. it will certainly make them think twice about being so female in future, wont it?

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

One day marriedinwhite you might lose your job. And your DH might leave you.

They will come for you then. All the feckless that you wanted sterilised and thrown in hostels.

Everyone is only ever a few steps away from the dole queue.

[marriedinwhite]

and from getting out there and getting another job.

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

Does anyone have the figures on the number of unemployed and the number of jobs.

I think we need to spell it out.

[Booyhoo]

" There is everything wrong with expecting others to pick up the tab because it is too easy to get someone else to pay for your mistakes. "

of course there is, but why are you mentioning that on this thread? this thread is about benefit payments being changed to monthly from weekly.

do you just see the word 'benefits' and associate it with "can work but chooses not to so others can pay for them to shag around and keep goats?"

[Bogeyface]

"only those who agree with the left and every OP should post".

Somewhat Orwellian I think.

Hmm, clearly someone didnt understand their Orwell! But if we are using literary references then punishing someone for something without them knowing what crime they committed is Kafkaesque and that is what this policy will do to the most vulnerable in society.

[marriedinwhite]

And the dole queue's going to pay monthly. Like most people receive a salary. And the complaint is what - people are given money - and now they want to dictate how and when they receive it . They don't get it at all in many parts of the world; only in the UK would there be complaints about it being paid once a month rather than once a week.

[Bogeyface]

MArried

I have applied for 26 jobs this week alone. H has applied for more (he has more qualifications than me, so shoot me). Do you know how many replies we have had in the 2 months since he lost his job? 4. Each of them telling him or me that we werent successful this time. The rest just didnt bother getting back to us.

Where are these mythical jobs of which you speak?

[starsandunicorns]

Married getting out there getting another job well I got 4 rejection emails this week min wage jobs one was for cleaner. I applied becauase it was a perm job the email said over quailfield. Dont think you live in the real world

[Booyhoo]

and the award for refusing to see the point entirely goes to...... no surprise here- Marriedinwhite! congratulations. are you really this ignorant or do you have to work hard at appearing to be?

[IneedAsockamnesty]

Why is any of that relevant to a thread about vulnerable people who will be made more vulnerable by having payments made monthly?