To think dh is winding me up when he says some people on benefits are getting £500 a week?

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I'm pretty sure he's talking bullocks? Otherwise why the fuck would anyone do a minimum wage job?

HA is the only option here now as the council gave away their housing stock to them. There is no way i'd make anywhere on the waiting or priority list as i have savings and only one child. Totally no chance when there are people with multiple children, no work, no savings and social service type involvement etc ahead of you.

The crappier the state of you've made of your life the more deserving you are apparently.

Yes, at one point our council was trying to flog off all the housing stock to some dodgy rackrenting landlord or other - they were proposing to charge £2000 per house. Mysterious how they wouldn't sell the houses direct to us for £2000, yet it was OK to flog them off to a randomer for that.

There was a vote and tenants voted to stay with the council. They were livid. They even had council employees literally doing the rounds knocking on doors, begging us to vote 'sell' and sobbing that they were going to be made unemplyoed if we voted to stay with the council. At the time, tenants I spoke with weren't even sure if it was legal. I have often thought we should have brought a class action to compel them to sell us the houses for £2000 each as it was strange how when the houses stayed with them, that price was no longer on offer...

a local authority round these parts sold their whole council housing stock to a HA for the sum of £1.

The crappier people make their lives the more deserving ? ..... I didn't ask to get landed in the shit by my ex thank you very much. You've only got one kid and savings, thank your lucky stars you can still help yourself. I've got 6 years before I'm in your position again and am counting the days and wishing my kids lives away so I can be in your boat

in my boat of facing homelessness? you're welcome to it if you have a safe roof over your children's heads.

The point is honey you only have one child and are educated and capable of providing for yourself. It'll be 6 years before I am in that position and have extra children to keep the roof over the heads of

If you need a job then just play the game and get one, that's what I had to don

I chose to stop at one child despite wanting more because i didn't have the security to have more - it wasn't 'luck'. I put myself through uni in my 20's and paid for it - no 'luck' there either. i have a job and self employed work too thanks. i have savings because even when in desperate straits i've saved money - no luck involved but work and common sense and always planning for when things could get worse given i have a disability and life can be up and down as a result as it's very difficult to have a career with my health problems.

glad you've got a job of course you had to get one - how did you think life worked?

my son's father has never seen him btw - i've raised him single handed. don't make assumptions about people's lives.

Dinf take it out on me honey, you've not got a bad deal from where I'm sitting. Go and do what you have to do, two pay slips and you will be able to get a house

try reading the thread dear. that's not how it works here and i have no idea why you're attacking me and calling me lucky. if you manage to work your arse off and get your life together in 6 years and someone has a go at you and tells you you're 'lucky' to be there what will you say? lol

pissssssed every time there is a benefit thread you are there in a heartbeat telling people just get a job

It isn't easy to get a job now days.

Do you know what I am lucky, I'm lucky I'm capable and lucky have the opportunity. I've met women with more children than me and masters degrees who work in supermarkets because of the colour of their skin and their names when spotted on a CV ensures it lands in the metophrical bin.

It is easy to get a job, I'm sorry but it is.

And don't dear me, get the chip off your shoulder and do what you need to do. I'm having a go at you because you are perfectly capable of sorting yourself out and you know you are.

no chip on my shoulder. you're the one who swanned in with the poor me my husband left me and everyone else is lucky.

you've made your choices and so have i. dear