How to get a £500k house free

[Judy1234]

www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23405477-details/Jobless+couple+with+12+children+are+give n+a+%C2%A3500%2C000+home/article.do

theres things that a job gives you that arn't financial - as UD says training, chance for progressin and improvement - other job chances, confidence, friends camraderie, a different aspect to your life. as well as the wage itself, the pension, the skills the knowlege, pride ina job well done, being praised. the feeling of accomplishement.

i am looking at another job same money more hours simply becuase my job bores the holy shit out of me.

I agree with aloha someone has wildly underestimated the cost of that house

You know I have always worked paid my taxes lived in shite places as a young person but I am really glad to live in a country that has a safety net so that if I or anyone else falls on harsh times we won't starve.

OK people abuse the system and that is shite but far richer people find ways of not paying their taxes and I get irritated by that too but in balance this is a fairer nicer place to live than some places and I will ignore the odd piss taker if it means that in general people are better cared for.

I find this story really funny. Kalifornya. Wicked! PMSL, really, truly ROFLMFAO

Oh, yeah, this is a really funny story.

And Princess Tiiaammii is such a sweet name.

Well I find it funny. I also find the neighbours comment 'they are not the sort of people for round here' hilarious. runs off cackling

"People who have large families should accept financial responsibility for that decision."

I agree with this statement.

That house has got to be worth much more than £500K.

Lazy, scrounging bastards. I would have loved a third baby, but we can't afford it. Simple as that.

regretably, I can't afford to have a 3rd child, we live in a small flat which is worth around £400k but the leap to a house is too high in this area, so we may have to move schools etc eventually.

financial constraints have a huge bearing on my life

I can't understand why people have children they can't afford to support - it is a completely irresponsible attitude - the government should only pay for the children you have when you go on welfare and not the ones you have after you are on it.

Is it not impossible to earn so little money if you work full time what with the minimum wage and all that?

Honest question as I have no idea!

i am from a large family (im eldest of 10) my parents are currently in reciept of benefits.

this is because my dad is now disabled and my mum has devestating depression following the death of my sister.

prior to my dads illness he was an Exec at the Daily Express and then ran his own business....he took financial resposnibility for his family for as long as he could.

these people are disgusting.
she may well feel she was put on this earth to produce children but by teh same token she should be able to care for them.

I honestly believe that the government should refuse to pay for any child concieved whilst on benefits.
until then selfish ponces like this will continue to produce children like a factory turn out in order to claim higher benefits.

I don't think you should have kids that you can't afford as I think it sends all the wrong messages to kids but I would not want a "free" house if it came along with 12 kids particularly if one of them had a liking for matches. How many of us would genuinely want to trade places.

I could also play the I only have one cut can't afford any more card , which I have done in my most self centred drama queen moments but that is all nonsense anyway as in comparison although I may not have the spare cash to spend on lots of little twinsets but I do have

equity in my house
a secure pension
nice holidays
the option to pay for private education or an aupair and cleaner.
a job that stimulates me
choices.

It certainly makes me a lot better off than someone in a rented house even if they have a sky and smoke fifty fags a day.

that's interesting mamazon. I suppose the problem I have with your solution is that being the offspring of such parents isn't the fault of the child.

and I couldn't sanction something which caused a child to live in poverty.

'It certainly makes me a lot better off than someone in a rented house even if they have a sky and smoke fifty fags a day.'

Ah, but maybe not to them.

I've worked all my life, but I'll certainly never have equity in a house (lifelong renter here), a pension, holidays abroad, the option to pay for a cleaner or au pair, etc.

Just because one works doesn't mean that comes with many opportunities.

I know it doesn't, having spent the last five years scrimping and saving to get myself from being homeless to being where I am now I am painfully aware of how lucky I am and how fragile everything I have is.

But there is a tendency amongst the daily mail readers to go shock horror they have tweleve kids and I can only afford one, and that is what I was adressing.

I teach in a school where a significant number of kids come from homes where no one has ever worked and they certainly do not want what they see as my middle class values or lifestyle and they would be quite happy to churn out a few kids into a council house.

i hadn't realised i had been called thick. i guess that makes me a bit thick.

who called you thick?

"according to that report they recieve £1500 in housing benifit which is about £375 a week in rent, surely its not a council house!!!"

I assumed it was used by the council but rented from a private landlord.

I agree wholeheartedly with drosophila's post of 01:11

the council have bought the house with the specific purpose of renting to this family i think.

the rent is calcutated by assesing the property value in relation to other homes available for rent in the area.

so whats your point Xenia?

£300 a month would be about right for a shelf stacker tbh - the majority of supermarkets don't offer these roles as full time positions usually 12-16 hours a week i think. The question begs as to why he didn't try for a full time role and claim the tax credits that would be associated with it.

absolutly Dropsophilia.

without the benefit system my family would be homeless and penniless.

As would i following my relationship breakdown.

it still astonishes me that families like this are still happy to parade themselves for the media...surely they realise the sort of backlash they will recieve (quite rightly IMHO)

i doubt any councils have 8 bedroomed homes on their books.