To start a benefits "myth busting" thread so that I can link the thickos of Facebook to it

[MarmaladeTwatkins]

When they start moaning about how people on benefits can afford diamond shoes and other such items.

I'll start.

1. Housing benefit is mostly paid out to WORKING people. So all of this talk of going out and getting a job and buying their own home if they don't like the bedroom tax is a flawed argument.

And Skinny is another one.

I despair, I really do. This thread went from great to fucking depressing in a few pages.

Skinny don't be so ignorant. I've detailed my life situation and you amongst others refused to engage, preferring stereotypes and ooh look you're doing it again.

I think there's some sockpuppeting going on.

Surprised flatbread hasn't turned up and told me to get in the gutter again!

I think so too, Usual.

usual Agreed - either that or astroturfing. Interested parties do have a history of it.

But it's a lot of money £579 a week. I did it on the benefits calculator. Then changed it to one child and that was less. £301 income support £62 child tax credit and £20 child benefit. That is less but it's still more than a lot of working people get after tax. I don't understand this at all.

What is 'astroturfing'?

I don't know what HQ think. No response despite reports,

Income support is £62 a week before deductions (which pretty much always happen) so that's bollocks.

Well Vivienne, when I was a single parent, with one disabled child, and one not disabled, I was getting nowhere near that amount and it wasn't that long ago.

YouTheCat When an organisation or business pay people to pose as genuine members of forums to promote a view or product, or gauge opinion.

Vivienne - does that figure include HB?

That no one, not one single person, has any control over their own lives whatsoever. If they've done well, they're lucky, if they haven't- they're unlucky.

No one has any choice over who they shag and who they get pregnant by and when. None of us choose to smoke or eat well or marry decent men or wait to get pregnant until we are financially stable. It's all down to luck. Every single thing
I am Dawndonna's daughter. I'm clever, I'm funny, I'm a sixteen year old wheelchair user. I can remember when my Dad could walk, that was three years ago. I can remember when my Mum could laugh. She'll be furious that I'm on here, but I saw her sniffing in the kitchen this afternoon. I looked at the threads that she's been on and you in particular Skinnywitch are one of the people that have been unbelievably dreadful.
My dad contracted an horrific and painful illness, that was bad luck. It was bad luck when he was prescribed the wrong medication too.
It was bad luck that I was born at 33 weeks, one of twins, I'm the one that ended up with the cerebral palsy as well as the Aspergers. But hey, to you, we're just a bunch of benefit scroungers. You will never see the clever, talented lecturers that my parents were. You will never indulge in our cultural background, you will never experience the unconditional love my mother provides. Please stop now, at your age you really should have grown out of bullying.

Maisie its possible the builders haven't called you back because they just can't afford to put diesel in their vans this month in order to come out and quote you for the work. Because its getting that way for some small businesses at the moment.

Oh come on guys, you're being unfair. I know I, for one, chose to be disabled! It's great to need help showering and getting dressed when you're 24. It's not demoralising at all to fill in 52 page forms to explain in great detail the exact help you need every step of the way from not being able to cook for yourself to needing someone's arm to hold when walking outside. I'm living the life of fucking riley, I get FREE MONEY from the government. I mean, my joints are eroding away and I live in chronic pain, sometimes can't wipe my own backside but guys, FREE MONEY!!!!!!!

It's not just crying in the kitchen, I started a thread to say as much. Doesn't sink in though.

penelope every parent can say what you are saying - disabled or not. If I decided I couldn't care for my children SS would have to step in, no? And it would cost thousands a week. But I care for them because they are MY children.

I made up a figure of £1000 a month for rent. So maybe it does. But it didn't say it did.

crashdoll, you have made me but :( at the same time.

Epic post, DawnDonna's dd. You are a credit.

Vivienne - but £1000 per month is realistic for rent.

I think when posters recall how much they receive, they forget to add HB in.