To think benefits need to be cut to fund increased spending on defence

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This is absolutely necessary. Keir Starmer shouldnt have backed down the last time. But now with the current situation with Russia drastic steps need to be taken. We simply can't afford to sustain the current benefits bill with the armed forces so depleted. The money is needed to increase defence.

Work also isn't the only thing that someone may need to get to at a cost.

I don't work but still pay a lot of travel costs due to my son's appointments.

The property you live in wont be taken in to account in regards to means testing because it is not cash. You can not eat bricks, and everyone needs a home.
If we go down your line of thinking, then any UC claimant who owns the home they live in should not get to claim anything. Thankfully, that is not the case.

No, UC subsidises greedy landlords. Or gives people a top up because they are not offered enough hours.

This is where all my money goes costs an absolute fortune. I live 10 minutes from work and have uniform provided and I take a packed lunch work costs me nothing being disabled costs me a fortune

Hey, and you need clothing when you go to those appointments too.

Yep can't turn up naked 🤣🤣

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Imagine that AIBU on here 😂

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"I showed up to my disabled child's appointment naked. Someone on MN told me that only working people need clothing. AIBU?"

Yep. I lived close to my work too but my son's specialist hospital is 30 miles away.

Can you remember that other benefit bashing thread where someone said anyone on benefits shouldn't have a fridge or a matress 🤣🤣

Gosh aren’t you witty, thing is working people pay for their own clothes… you need working people to pay for your clothes, rent, food, and so on in finitum, yet are convinced, you are victims

Only 2 years ago I was a working person myself.

Life can change in the blink of an eye.

@Kirbert2 well I imagine there are side hustles. So people claim & then work cash in hand on the side. Also UC doesn’t take into account maintenance from an ex. So two single Mums living next door to each other could be in very different circumstances. Also single Mums on benefits that move a partner in who works & earns good money - but on paper he lives with his parents. My BIL targets single Mums & has all his paperwork registered at his parents address.

Yeah my hospitals are spread all around the country local hospital can't treat me to rare and specialised. If I ever end up in my local hospital in an emergency the first thing they do is get me transfered these are the things people don't seem to understand.

I think I do! This place is so depressing at times.
And I love we can laugh about it... gallows humour! If you don't laugh, you cry.

🌷of course they fucking don't, they just want to bash & act as if we just have a broken finger nail.

So largely not actual benefits then.

People on benefits pay for their own clothes too.
Or do you think anyone on benefits should be naked? It is a strange take.

A nasty fall, a stroke, Covid etc... you could be one of us at any time.

If you know someone committing benefit fraud grass them up don't punish everyone else on benefits claiming legitimately. But make sure you actually have your facts right before doing so. Not like a lot of people on here who like to say my neighbours, cousins, sil is claiming benefits and there is nothing wrong with her.

Because teenagers tell school support staff everything., They are often angry and vent about home life. Adults don’t tend to do this because they know the consequences.

You haven’t read it properly.
it’s their kids. Teenagers.
They talk about home life.

Did you as a teenager know all the ins and outs of your parents finances. Do your kids?

Absolutely. The welfare bill is out of control and working people can’t pay for the ever increasing pool of people on benefits.
welfare should be temporary and for people in genuine hardship, not a way of life.