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TerrazzoChips · 2025-12-27T21:17:50+00:00

How on earth can this be right? [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15388599/better-benefits-labour-analysis-graphic.html Link]] it doesn’t include disability benefits but does include housing allowance and childcare costs. But a single earner will also have those? I despair and could honestly cry. I am genuinely considering having another child and dropping my hours. I would be better off. I hate this so much.

UserFront242 · 27/12/2025 22:59

JustAlice · 27/12/2025 22:58

There's social housing everywhere in London, including Kensington &Chelsea and they get it for a fraction of market rent. Working people will have to pay for smth similar 25K after taxes out of the pocket.
Plus 2K in council tax, again after taxes.
Plus 2.5K for public transport.

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NIMBY much?

JustSawJohnny · 27/12/2025 23:01

FFS give it a rest, it's Christmas! 🙄

JustAlice · 27/12/2025 23:02

Just to illustrate % of social housing in London. In fact only 2 groups of people can now afford to live in Central London - either millionaires or benefit claimants.

How can it be right that you can get so much money on benefits?!?!

VikaOlson · 27/12/2025 23:10

covilha · 27/12/2025 22:47

Hmm, from what ai have seen if the lifestyle of people on benefits they have far more spending power- and better quality of life then I do working full time.
It’s not just the everyday luxuries like cans of pop (if they’re not luxuries for you, Reader, then Bravo) but they have free time and wherewithal financially for regular weekends away with their kids.
also, don’t know if this still applies but their kids can get free/ subsidised places on school trips so they don’t meet out due to being deprived and raised on benefits

Why are you working full time then? That's on you!
Give up your job and claim benefits.

JustAlice · 27/12/2025 23:15

VikaOlson · 27/12/2025 23:10

Why are you working full time then? That's on you!
Give up your job and claim benefits.

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Career benefit claimants usually start very young.
If you wasted years getting a degree and paying mortgage you are trapped 😀

merrychristmasbaby · 27/12/2025 23:28

Oh come on - do yourself a favour. Stop reading the Daily Mail and pop down to CAB for a benefit check. You’ll be surprised to find that it’s all a load of hysterical bollocks !!

SaulHudsonDavidJones · 27/12/2025 23:32

I don’t have an (informed) opinion either way but people could at least reply with something constructive rather than sarcasm. How will anyone learn otherwise?

covilha · 27/12/2025 23:33

Erm, actually I have been there…
EXACT scenario- speaking from experience
and I was not badly off at all.
And had free time as no longer working three jobs to make ends meet. And oh, did I mention the free transport and gym membership, dental care(including root canal fillings Lovely- not in my wildest dreams could I afford those while working )x. AND FREE eye care.
AND lots of free time to work on my mental health and recover as I was no longer having to work THREE jobs to make ends meet. (One full time and two part time).
And yes, recover I did and took any work I could - below national minimum wage and on a zero hour contract 😭- get to get into employment again because I believe in paying my own way.
Judge me as you please but make sure you have your facts straight before you do so.
I hope, if your post refers to you, that you recover and return to full time work, if this is what you would like.
@UserFront242

covilha · 27/12/2025 23:35

@VikaOlson and @JustAlice - see post above 👆🏻 .

OriginalUsername2 · 27/12/2025 23:37

FFS

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baroqueandblue · 27/12/2025 23:40

HappyNewTaxYear · 27/12/2025 21:52

Here’s the research, and I don’t think these people are right wing:

https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/newsroom/post-budget-research

But imo, the question should be Why are so many jobs so poorly paid?

You should be able to live on the wages from any 35 hours a week job in a developed Western economy, but you can’t.

Co-founded by that notorious philanthropist Iain Duncan Smith, former leader of the Conservative party and architect of the punitive sanctions-based regime that is Universal Credit.

Right wing enough for you? 🙄

CorvusNoir · 27/12/2025 23:41

The old Daily Mail 'distort the facts and slag off benefit claimants' chestnut comes around again. Plus ça change....

Pinepeak2434 · 27/12/2025 23:42

But if you have a mortgage that will still need to be paid as benefits won’t pay it.

baroqueandblue · 27/12/2025 23:57

covilha · 27/12/2025 23:33

Erm, actually I have been there…
EXACT scenario- speaking from experience
and I was not badly off at all.
And had free time as no longer working three jobs to make ends meet. And oh, did I mention the free transport and gym membership, dental care(including root canal fillings Lovely- not in my wildest dreams could I afford those while working )x. AND FREE eye care.
AND lots of free time to work on my mental health and recover as I was no longer having to work THREE jobs to make ends meet. (One full time and two part time).
And yes, recover I did and took any work I could - below national minimum wage and on a zero hour contract 😭- get to get into employment again because I believe in paying my own way.
Judge me as you please but make sure you have your facts straight before you do so.
I hope, if your post refers to you, that you recover and return to full time work, if this is what you would like.
@UserFront242

Bully for you. If you were able to "work on" your mental health to the extent that you could luxuriate in the value of 'paying your own way', you don't know you're born. Unlike those of us who could "work on" our mental health til the cows came home, and still not be able to hold down a job and stand on our own two feet. Because some mental illness is intractable and ruins lives and futures, and robs people of the capacity to pat themselves on the back and feel smug about paying their own way.

But you do (insensitive, patronising) you 🤷‍♂️

covilha · 28/12/2025 00:03

@baroqueandblue - thank you Lovely- and well done for expressing yourself with such coherence and passion,👍

soddingspiderseason · 28/12/2025 00:05

Oh for goodness sake.

HappyNewTaxYear · 28/12/2025 00:05

baroqueandblue · 27/12/2025 23:40

Co-founded by that notorious philanthropist Iain Duncan Smith, former leader of the Conservative party and architect of the punitive sanctions-based regime that is Universal Credit.

Right wing enough for you? 🙄

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See my previous responses on this matter!

randomchap · 28/12/2025 00:08

Echoing everyone else

It's the fucking cess pit that's the Daily Mail

It exists by pushing bullshit rage bait articles.

It's a harmful, hateful, and morally bankrupt piece of shit.

Fucking "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" propaganda pushing wankers.

They need to fuck off as far as possible, then fuck off even fucking further.

SleeplessInWherever · 28/12/2025 00:12

Can you not save you despairing for January? You’ll ruin your own Christmas (ish) period doing it now.

Complaining about imaginary benefit claiming situations is a 2026 thing!

whatisthegoddamnholdup · 28/12/2025 00:13

YANBU OP

WeirdyBeardyMarrowBabyLady · 28/12/2025 00:16

Another thread on this topic with a single opening post and then the OP goes awol. I genuinely believe these are regularly thrown in by those with a media/political interest and are designed to keep the idea that people on benefits are all living it up foremost in our minds.

The best thing to do is not to engage.

ThatFairy · 28/12/2025 00:18

WeirdyBeardyMarrowBabyLady · 28/12/2025 00:16

Another thread on this topic with a single opening post and then the OP goes awol. I genuinely believe these are regularly thrown in by those with a media/political interest and are designed to keep the idea that people on benefits are all living it up foremost in our minds.

The best thing to do is not to engage.

Maybe someone wants us all to talk about how it's not the case ?

BoxesBoxesEverywhere · 28/12/2025 00:18

Thedownwardspiralpath · 27/12/2025 21:24

Stop reading tripe. 🙄😴

Think this just about sums it up 😁

Dweetfidilove · 28/12/2025 00:20

The 2 child cap has been lifted, so feel free to have a couple more babies.