AIBU to feel annoyed about discounted attractions for benefit claimants?

[Sheldonsheher]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15721199/Benefit-claiming-families-UK-attractions-working-Brits.html

I know I’ll get slated as the origin is the daily fail but, but this kind of annoys me too! I mean as a single parent I don’t want to pay £60 to go to the zoo either.

I agree with discounts for those less off as a whole. But people pointing out that shops restaurants etc offer student discount etc this is normally around the 10% mark whereas some of the mentioned days out offer massively more than the average 10-20% meaning as some posters have pointed out, it’s a yearly treat for some families not entitled to discounts but could be a monthly treat for many UC claimants

Compare it to sneaking a 5 year old in as an under 5 and not paying - it's cost the attraction nothing.

Are you for real? so you're the same thief as shoplifters if that's your mentality

Could be, if they live next door to the attraction, have no travel costs and the discount is available when they aren't at work/kids at school.

My local science museum offers a 50-65% discount for home educators.

Pretty sure that the zoo wasn't the equivalent of £100 if you were employed in the 70s and 80s.

Times have changed, and i would wager that there are more families who are not on benefits and cannot afford to go to the zoo than there are families on UC who can get a ticket for less than a cornetto.
That is the grate.

If I lost my job due to illness I have lifelong income protection, much like any responsible person should to allow those in need the government support.

I can't afford to pay entry prices of these attractions and so many of my friends' children are unable to go either due to the cost and both parents working. If it's for the benefit of the children why is it not free for children?

It's not my mentality. I neither shoplift, nor sneak 5 year olds in for free. I can talk about scenarios without actually taking part in them. Like discussing true crime, without being a criminal - mind blowing.

Nice job at deliberately missing the point with your faux outrage though.

And if you're in a relationship and your partner leaves and your income is halved (or more) overnight, have you got insurance against that.

My grandad was a "poor" child, he is 87 now.

He told me a story about how he went to the circus as a child once, paid for by charity because the school had noticed. He still remembers that kindness to this day.

Everyone is bleating and crying about community and supporting the village but when it comes to it there are far too many selfish miserly gits around.

I think some people are missing the point it’s not so much that poor kids, however you want to define it, are getting to go for a pound.

no one is benefit bashing!

its that the children of working not well off children can’t afford to go at all.

I think some people are missing the point that is why it feels unfair that it’s so extreme a discount.

@HairsprayBabe There are millions of people working to look after their families without having to look after others who don’t want to work. Times have changed and attitudes with it. Poverty moves with the times too. What was poor 60 years ago is rarely seen now. Poverty is measured as a relative situation too. So not having things others see as normal but were not even invented 60 years ago!

So what is the solution?

@Sheldonsheher I am working not well off and me and my children can’t afford to go at all, and I STILL DO NOT CARE that people who are worse off than me are getting a nice day out for a change. Good for them!

No ones missing the point - your thread was literally titled AIBU to feel annoyed about discounted attractions for benefit claimants?

how many times to post gov stats for this to sink in? only 32% of benefits claimants are in any type of employment/work. Any means they can work whole 8 hours a week to be included in this stats.
Two people working FT on NMW will bring home about 45k pa. It's no luxury, but it's a liveable wage in most areas of the country

And those two FT workers may well be entitled to UC and thus these discounted tickets everyone is crying about

@MeetMeOnTheCorner nope only 19% of people are claiming UC and not working through "choice". These are typically people between work, or people who have been recently made redundant, these tend to be short term claimants. These people are less likely to have children and not take advantage of the scheme.

You have a large group of people working but being paid piss poor wages I would argue people who work in low wage jobs, work far harder than I as an average earner ever do.

The rest are too disabled, or caring for someone who is too disabled to work. The unpaid carers (a huge proportion of will be on UC) who save the economy £184 billion annually deserve a day at the zoo on the cheap IMO

There are hundreds of thousands of people who work full time but still claim benefits due to low wages so its great these attractions are makings it more accessible for people

if you have kids with this partner then they still have to provide for them. If you're single - well, you have to provide for yourself.

Why is your partner paying you a salary?

Your household income, obviously.

@nearlylovemyusername UC is calculated on wages earned not hours worked so it is irrelevant how many hours someone works.

Their contribution wouldn't replace their previous portion of the household income though, would it. So for most people who become single parents, they're left with no choice but to claim UC top ups, as they can't possibly replicate the loss of a second income - however hard they work.

I wish someone other than me would tell my ex husband he needs to contribute financially towards his children

and the children of working parents who can’t afford their prices, what opportunities do they get?
Those working parents cut their suit according to their cloth and their children lose out. This is the same ridiculous logic as sending wayward children on school trips whilst well behaved, hard working children stay behind.
Benefits are now a lifestyle choice for many (not all) and this must be stopped before it gets even more out of hand than it is already. Benefits should feed and house people nothing more.

i think people are missing the point in not benefit bashing in general

Proceeds to literally benefit-bash.