AIBU to think my friend, and people in a similar situation should pay some of their benefits back?

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I’m not jealous, I’ve got a good job and money which I’ve worked for.

I’ve know someone who has been working part-time through choice and playing the system, who has inherited a lot of money.

She’s not broken the law, she’s told the DHSS and signed off. She’s bought a house outright, paid her pension contributions up to date, and made some investments to give herself an income. But she’s stopped working completely so she’ll never pay tax and put anything back.

And I think that’s fucking wrong.

It genuinely upsets me as someone with, thank god, no inheritances, and who's never had to rely on benefits either, that there are people who think benefits should be paid back.

It's inhuman. When we need benefits, we need them. When we don't, we're paying taxes in whatever form, and/or it's because we've lost our loved ones in quick enough succession that we don't pay inheritance tax on any individual inheritance but we've lost a number of people at virtually the same time.

I feel really sad that there are enough of you that begrudge people those ill winds that blew them a little good.

Out of interest OP, do you have children and have you ever, or do you, claim child benefit for those children. After all, you'd be entitled to it if you children are under a certain age. As Grimbles has pointed out, do you have every intention of paying this back, on the assumption that you do/have claim/ed, when you're children are grown up, considering you have money that you've 'worked for'?

In my head, petbear's second post is a series of snarls and hisses!

Wow.

Not only will she be paying plenty of tax, but if she doesn't work because she doesn't need to, she'll be freeing up a job for someone who does need it.

She's doing all the right things, morally, and she's still getting a kicking. Unbelievable.

There's a reason it's called "income tax", rather than "work tax".

Why is almost everyone who hates benefits claimants also devoid of basic knowledge about how tax and benefits work?

petbear

And yeah so I am bitter. So fucking what?!

To be honest I'm not surprised you got left nothing. They probably didn't like you much.