I have a friend who is a few years younger than me (she is 22) we have been friends for around 3 years now.
She has 2 children (aged 4 and 1) they both have different dads, her sons dad isn't involved at all but her daughters dad (the youngest) is very involved in their daughters life. She doesn't work and hasn't since she had her son at 18.
She claims income support, tax credits and full housing benefit (however her daughters dad pays £600 a month top up rent that hb doesn't cover so she can live in a nicer house) he pays her £300 a week in child support so £1200 a month. Aibu to think she is cheeky for getting this much and still claiming benefits? She has pretty much no outgoings because her rent, council tax etc is all paid for. She drives a Range Rover (on finance) she lives in a beautiful house and has pretty much everything she wants including regular cosmetic surgery. She in effect has £1200 disposable income a month.
Her daughters dad and her are not together, infact they hate each other but he supports his daughter nethertheless. He has an extremely good job and would do anything for his daughter.
I have asked her what she intends to do when she can't claim benefits anymore (when her youngest starts school) and her solution is she is just going to live off the child support and says she will still get help with her rent even if she doesn't get income support. I've asked her if she doesn't think it's cheeky to claim when she is getting so much and her response is "if the system doesn't count child support as income therefore what I'm doing isn't illegal then I may as well claim it"
Aibu? I feel perhaps I'm a little jealous as I work 30 hours a week on minimum wage, get very little in the way of benefits and I'm usually broke by the end of the month. I know it's a rare situation but surely the system should put something in place to stop people doing this.