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do you mean benefits?

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:37, 2 replies, latest was 10 years ago)
yah

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:38, Reply)
not sick pay then

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:42, Reply)
Well, no, the payment you get for being sick, rather than for job seekers.

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:46, Reply)
incapacity benefit?

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:51, Reply)
Yah', something like that.
They need to do some kind of half-way one, if they don't already, donno... like for those who can do part-time or whatever.
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:58, Reply)
The benefit system is a nightmare.

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:41, Reply)
YOUR FACE is a nightmare

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:43, Reply)
Shut up frog.

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:46, Reply)
well we hardly want to make it easy for the feckless pricks

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:47, Reply)
Do you write for the Mail?

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:49, Reply)
nah

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:50, Reply)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/06/benefits-corporate-welfare-research-public-money-businesses?CMP=twt_gu
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:53, Reply)
tl:dr

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:00, Reply)
but you receive child benefit

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:53, Reply)
no, my kids do
either way it's just them giving me some of my money back
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:55, Reply)
no, you do, it is paid to parents.
It's a state benefit.
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:01, Reply)
on behalf of my kids
I'd happily receive a tax cut equivalent to the value of the benefit. Far more efficient
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:04, Reply)
not for parents at the bottom of the scale
And not for HMRC either.
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:06, Reply)
why should I pay for some povvo's ghastly crotch fruit who will most likely grow up to be
track suit wearing, chain smoking drains on society?
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:08, Reply)
because you live in the UK and that's what happens

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:09, Reply)
i didn't vote for it

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:10, Reply)
tough shit
Welcome to democracy.
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:14, Reply)
sounds like I'm being forced into something i don't wanna do
sounds a bit like a dictatorship
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:17, Reply)
nah m8, parliamentary democracy innit

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:21, Reply)
I'd love that.
Currently I just pay the tax and the ex-wife gets the benefit.
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:06, Reply)
it makes sense to remove benefits for more affluent people and tax them less

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:08, Reply)
no, it doesn't

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:08, Reply)
yes it does, it'll remove the adminstration costs involved in collecting the money, processing it and then giving it back
simplify maaan
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:10, Reply)
no, it really doesn't

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:14, Reply)
yes it does

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:18, Reply)
no, it doesn't.

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:20, Reply)
i can get on board with this

(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 11:28, Reply)
Seems to me, and this might be a bit Daily Mail, but the only way into the system is if you're dishonest.
But on the other hand I was watching this "Benefits House: 26 kids" thing the other day, and that life ain't or me. I like my luxouries.
(, Wed 8 Oct 2014, 10:48, Reply)

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