Irritated that families on UC get heavily discounted entry

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feel very aggrieved this afternoon to find out that people on UC get heavily discounted entry to popular attractions:

London Zoo
London transport museum
science museum wonderlab
Cutty Sark
kew Gardens
St Paul’s cathedral

As a mum with a professional career, with both husband and I working full time, paying a mortgage, paying a fortune in childcare for 2 under 4’s I seriously despair! From experience of people I see around me, families on UC seem to have more disposable income than us as their rent is paid, have no childcare costs and all their costs subsidised on social tariffs etc.

why is the government getting away with this and why are more middle class/income people not up in arms about it! At the moment I can’t see how us working hard and being self sufficient has benefited us as a family.

It is both of those things.

It is fair, the uc system is there to help anyone who has an income which falls under the minimum deemed by the family circumstances.

due to having a disabled child I actually have no work requirement on my UC claim but I still work full time in a job I love and that fits around Ds pretty well. It’s also a job that has awful pay for the stress and expectations that come with it so yes I do need some UC top ups.

If people want to judge then let them!

And I fucking paid into the system as well. Still paid NI. Still paid a pension.Still paid tax.

By contrast, Government never got a single penny out of my ex. And I'm the problem?!

Jesus fucking weeps. All the time.

It’s pure rage bait

Fine thanks love. I'm not the one who thinks the Labour government subsidises tickets to Kew Gardens for Universal Credit recipients.

I'd argue that anyone who begrudges a child a day out at the zoo is deficient in the milk of human kindness and should not be having children whether they can afford them or not.

Yep. Plus resenting children getting opportunities for days out.

Excellent response!

There are about 700k graduates currently unemployed. I get the feeling a good few of them could fill your job if you fancy vacating it for an easy life on UC.

Go on UC then.

I bet you own a pitchfork 🔱👩🏻‍🌾

We get UC and both work. Don't own a property. Don't think we could afford to go to them because of transport costs

No one is begrudging a child a day at the zoo. That is a strawman argument.

What people begrudge is that two sets of parents can be in the same financial situation at the emd of the month, one on UC, one not - yet only one of those sets receives state help and subsidised prices at said zoo.

The other receives fuck all.

Thats what people begrudge.

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Because society is not a even playing field. If you are born in certain circumstances you are less likely to engage in cultural activities which impacts your educational and future development. By offering a discounted entry they are trying in a small way to break a cycle.

Best clutch those pearls a wee bit harder then

Take that up with the companies offering the discounts. Not the person availing themselves of the discount - contributing to the companies coffers/paying the employees of said companies' wages.

We need to collectively demand better wages from employers and boycott these places that charge extortionate rates. Companies are busy getting away with exploiting us, all while we spend our energy fighting each other.

People just freak the fuck out about someone getting something they don't, especially if it's someone worse off than they are. That's what it really is. People begrudge the less well off anything but blank walls and gruel and that the fucking truth.

This isn’t true. Latest estimates show 30-35% of UC claimants are in work.

Long before my exh and I broke up and I became eligible for UC, we carefully factored in planning our family because of childcare costs. My ds1 only became eligible for 15 funded hours when he turned 3. Nowadays children get funded hours from the age of 9 months. You don’t see people moaning about this “benefit” though. I think it’s great that this has improved, I’m not starting threads saying how unfair it is.

How much do you actually think uc is?

Imagine the horror when people on this thread realise that the rich get lots of things for free, just because they're rich

I pay into the system. I always have. I had child benefit, but nothing else.
It doesn't make me fed up. It makes me very, very happy.

Also, I've taken kids to museums. It's flipping hard work. There won't be any scroungers in those queues. Just the usual achy feet and too many bags to carry of dedicated parents spending a day making things better and brighter for their kids.

As someone who gets uc since my marriage ended I will say if the government made the non resident parent pay enough to support their children uc would be a lot less. I don’t know if this scheme is new but I had not heard about it until this week.

@PiMCA i have a question as I’ve been scratching my head over it for a number of years now.

Re the house money when you sell your house. I know someone in her 50s who has never worked (capable just doesn’t). She inherited a lot of money £300k and used it to buy a house outright, before going straight back onto UC. How is this allowed please? Shouldn’t she have had to used that £300k to live until it was down to £16k?