To be cheesed off with Universal Credit entry fees?

[MaturingCheeseball]

I know it’s been done before, but…

I thought I’d like to visit Chatsworth House with (teenage) dd. The cost is £33 each PLUS parking at £7.50. So £73.50.

Then I saw the universal credit/pension credit/pip etc price. THREE POUNDS. And free parking! So £6.00 for two adults (age 17+).

I do not have 12 times as much money as someone on these benefits. I doubt many people do. I’m not begrudging the disadvantaged a day out, but come on! The price differential is ludicrous.

When I saw the £73 price I just decided we couldn’t go, and so be it. But upon seeing the potential for a £6 entry, it made me feel mugged off.

Its just life isn't it, so many working people get universal credit. But many wont be able to vist far away attractions anyway, travel, no car.
Its not actually impacting on your life.
We get free cinema vists as my wife has a disability, would you want that as well..

So you know someone who has been given a brand new Motobility electric car and they are actually faking their disability? If that is the case, you can report them for benefit fraud.

Full price tickets are not subsiding the UC ticket scheme.

The UC scheme is something that allows the places participating to show they are increasing accessibility, which most need for charity status, funding applications or both.

One of the places I know using the scheme reckoned the cost of the scheme was around £3k for them. It brought them access to around 60k of extra funding.

Places aren’t doing it to help out families or out the goodness of their hearts. It’s a business decision.

The government has nothing to do with these entry fees though. Labour or not, it is still up to the establishment what discounts they offer.

Well, it actually wasn’t that obvious. I thought it was someone complaining that the entry fees were still too high for someone on UC!

There was a corker the other day - crept in under the radar by asking whether ‘public spending’ should be cut to fund defence. Turned into a stonking benefit bashing thread by page 4 !!

Their taxes aren't paying for these other kids to go.

They can't as it's not true nobody gets given a car. If you get the mobility part of Pip you pay it in installments it comes right out of your money before you get it. This has always been the case. I remember years and years ago going with my granddad to pick out his new car and he had to be very careful to choose one he could afford the payments on like everyone else

So you wouldn't allow any genuine refugees into the UK, even if they were sponsored and didn't cost the taxpayer a penny?

It's like Stormfront on here whenever benefit claimants or refugees are being discussed.

The OP was pointing out the unfairness in general.
In general, middle class families would not have 12 times the disposable income of an average family who is claiming UC.

She didn't go. Can't afford to.

YANBU, OP. The price difference is crazy.

I know! My post was ironic because it was such a typical and predictable post from the 'benefits bashers' on Mumsnet.

I agree there should be some discount to encourage the disadvantaged for days out. But I can see OP that the difference seems a bit stark. I get that most workers not on UC will not earn 3/4 times more than other on UC.

Maybe if a two person entry was £60 then a UC entrance should be £30.

What the poster means is that she can’t immediately see a disability which she thinks warrants being ‘given’ a car. Despite the fact that she knows nothing of the disability, isn’t medically qualified to judge, and has no idea what details are contained in the claim or assessment for benefit, she considers the fact that she can walk the dog should surely disqualify her. If I had a pound for every poster I’ve seen on here who feel qualified to comment despite having no idea how PIP works, what the motability scheme aims to provide for disabled people and clearly no idea what it’s like to be disabled, I’d be rich by now.

The idea that only those on PIP and UC have problems is a nonsense though
We can’t base societal decisions on that

But that isn’t the fault of the claimants. It’s a business decision by the venues concerned.

Exactly. The jealousy is astonishing.

Why?

it affects the people who own/run the places in the scheme. It's their decision. No one else is affected by the discount they buffer.

whats ridiculous about it??

Can you read? At which point did I say that their contributions don’t mean anything? All I said is they are paying for the public services that they use themselves, not for other people’s benefits

Some of ‘them’ don’t work at all, the bastards. Some of ‘them’ have multiple co-morbidities and are unable to work.
Some of ‘them’ should just stay indoors, eat plain pasta and wait for death.

Really sick of the benefit bashing on here.

Have I got this right ? You don’t think you should be allowed to vote if you’re not a tax payer ? Seriously ?

What's Labour got to do with a private enterprise (owned by a hugely wealthy family) charging lower admission prices for people on a range of benefits?

Luckily everyone who buys anything pays tax.

And if that made business sense that’s what businesses would do.

These discounts are not about fairness. They’re not even actually genuinely about places caring about increasing accessibility. They’re about generating proof for charity statuses and funding applications that places are making a visible effort to encourage people who wouldn’t come otherwise.