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

[aloha]

Actually, I don't think two people have the right, if perfectly able-bodied and capable of work, to expect other people to pay for them to have endless children. I really don't.

[NotReallyHereHunker]

Christ, I'm not, imagine potty training 12 times.

[NotReallyHereHunker]

No, it's not.

Welfare should be there for people who can't work through no fault of their own.

Not people who can't stop boinging out kids.

[wildwoman]

What annoys me is that surely benefits are meant to be a tempory measure that you can rely on if you need to, not for you to abuse and view it as a permanent lifestyle option.

[zookeeper]

Good luck to them - I'd rather see my taxes going on this than killing innocents in Iraq

[expatinscotland]

And people like this give those who really need it a bad name.

[NotReallyHereHunker]

I'd rather see my taxes go on supporting people who need help than these idle scroungers.

WTF has Iraq got to do with anything?!

People who have no leg to stand on always resort to "yeah, starving children, yeah" type arguments.

Or "perhaps you just WANT children to die of cancer?"

Weird.

[zookeeper]

No they don't - I don't think any less of people who claim benefits because of this article.

[noddyholder]

But where do you tell them to stop?If they have lots of kids and they need to be there to look after them that is that.Not many people go down this road this is quite an exceptional situation.

[aloha]

I'd rather my taxes went to properly support people who cannot work or educating children with disabilities, not on people who simply choose not to work and selfishly expect other people to fund their chosen lifestyle.

[expatinscotland]

Well, obviously they're not looking after them properly if one of them gets hold a friggin' cigarette lighter and burns their entire house down.

[Cammelia]

Its illegal to make yourself to deliberately unemployed to get benefits, he should be refused them. Well done for dobbing yourself mate.

Looks like she went a bit loopy with the childrens' names thing after meeting him.

[Spidermama]

I can't get worked up about it really. It takes all sorts. I couldn't bring up twelve kids. It must be very hard work.

[zookeeper]

obviously, expat, why none of our kids have ever had accidents. They must be terrible parents too.

[IlanaK]

Surely it is not a valid reason to say that they can earn more staying on welfare? I don't remember reading anything that guarrantees you will be better off working? That is not what welfare is about - it is not a choice for people to make. It is there if you can't work, not if you figure out that you are better off financially by not working.

And I totally agree with the thought that you do not have a RIGHT to as many children as you want if you are not going to support them yourself. Have 30 kids if you want, but pay for them yourself.

[aloha]

Bloody selfish, irresponsible people. This is NOT what the welfare state was set up for. It does piss me off.
And actually, most people manage not to let their three year olds burn their house down with cigarette lighters, oddly enough.

[expatinscotland]

You know, zoo, I actually do think people who make themselves deliberately unemployed and have kid after kid they can't support and expect the government to do it ARE terrible parents.

Part of being a good parent is teaching your kids personal and social responsibility as much as you can, by example even.

This doesn't.

[CountessDracula]

how would they afford childcare???

I mean they would have to earn a fortune to be able to pay people to look after 12 kids

[moljam]

i might have a few more children.
its madness

[PeachesMcLean]

I just think I'd better change my name.

[NotReallyHereHunker]

ZK< I was on benefits a while ago - disability benefits. I was 22.

So I don't think any less of people who claim benefits.

I have the same opinion of people who expect others to fund a lifestyle they haven't the discipline or ability or fund themselves.

[quiveutmabonnebaguette]

I'm disgusted at these lazy healthy parents...a 500 K house..it's disgusting...a majority and I'm sure I'm not wrong by saying a majority...work really hard and cant even afford a house...and they choose, YES THEY CHOOSE NOT TO WORK because they are better off...how disgusting is that.......it's an insult to people who dont abuse the system.

[expatinscotland]

An 'accident' involving a cigarette lighter and burning down your entire house, thereby necessitating new accommodation . . .

[aloha]

All the children qualify for school or nursery. Anyway, they don't both need to be at home. One of them should be working. And if they find that hard work, well, nobody made them have 12 children!

[Ladymuck]

I definitely think that one of them should work, and that the system is bizarre if a minimum wage job pays less than benefits.