To think that shouldn’t be allowed to abuse benefits?

[candiecorn]

I’m slightly annoyed about this one…

I worked with a man, he is around 52-54 years old. He always looked down at us, his colleagues, and made it clear that the job meant nothing to him.

he quit a couple of years ago to pursue his career in creative writing… I haven’t read anything from him, so not quite suee how good he is but he has definitely not been picked up by a publisher.

he lives in a rather nice area, rent free in a friend’s holiday home… he is very proud of this… and initially would make it sound like that it’s his place.

So I recently found out that he is on benefits… he is a fully capable, fit, young middle aged man with no family or children.

I think it’s a bit much that he is fully capable of working, yet he doesn’t … it’s a tough market but still, so something at least part time. Benefits are not there for fully capable middle aged man to live his dreams to become a writer…

I wish him the best, I hope he will succeed one day and probably would cut him more slack, had he not been so full of himself and looking down at everyone else…

I feel like it’s abusing the system though. There are people out there who do actually need help but imagine if we all did this 🫨

As I said earlier in this thread I used to work for a charity that helped people apply for benefits. It’s true if you’re single and childless you get little support and also those whose children were now classed as adults. Especially if you still had to provide a home or financial support for your children.

A lot of single parent women who work part-time or were full time carers and relying on benefits and maybe child support faced a lot of financial issues. Once the kids are out of education or get to 18 the money is cut off. A real problem if you don’t see this coming and get a full time job asap. Particularly difficult if you’re still expected to care for someone and can’t work at all or full time.