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.

maisie are you planning to rent out your summerhouse and become a bastard tory LL?

Good point schro
I'd love to see a definition of "genuinely disabled"

Beyond Who's betting the definition will be "ehh genuinely disabled"

Really drives me nuts on all of these threads.

Maisie You really aren't getting this, are you? They already have a job! They don't need to take work they don't want.

Definition of 'genuinely disabled': Any state or condition determined as 'real' by skinnywitch, flatbread or fasterstronger (assuming they aren't one and the same person...)

Marmalade

I'm a lady and don't like that kind of language but

Definitely not neurological conditions which cause behavioural problems.

That's just too many E numbers, a bit of naughtiness and insomnia.

I would say they are one and the same, except I am sure I have seen them all post before...

But yes, your definition sounds right.

YY Penelo That'll be all the fruit shoots that they sold their goats to buy, right? :o

Maisie you will never be out of a job, ATOS would love you.

At least one of them has only posted on this thread and another has only posted similar hateful crap over the last week.

Actually Maisie once your big shed has been erected my painter and decorator DH will come down and paint it for you - he is employed full time despite is raging psoratic arthritis (which means he has to get up 2 hours before he satrts work to get his joints moving) and the last time he was paid off he didn't actually get any dole money because apparently he had been paying the wrong kind of self employed insurance stamp so we got fuck all.

Maybe I haven't seen them then...

Schro and Penelo.

I had heard that some people had to sell their goats because they couldn't afford to feed them as well as the cuts and bedroom tax. At least the gov can't make you pay tax on the goat now. . So many goats need good homes now, these cuts are affecting livestock too.

Hi. Can we just remind you of our talk guidelines? Thanks.

I did notice them agreeing with each other rather too ardently on the Bedroom Tax thread.

Maisie, amongst the things I object to in your many posts is the fact that you define as a "need" your desire to knock down a shed and a summerhouse and build a new one. This is just another example of how little you understand or care about the lives of many to whom you would deby benefits. By all means have lots of stuff, no one denies that you're working hard. But your posts increasingly make you sound like a modern day Marie Antoinette.

Could they not have sold the tellys to feed the goats? Selfish bastards.

If you put your goat in your spare room then you can say your spare room is occupied. No?

I heard there was going to be a tax on goatsheds.

Thanks mnhq-point taken.

I had my children with my husband while we both worked. I was training and my husband was the majority earner. Then he attacked me and left me needing hospital treatment.

I still work full time but also claim housing benefit, council tax benefit, child benefit, child tax credits & working tax credit. Legitimately.

Where am I on the scale of worthy-ness? Please can I have some of your salary to support me?