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HARDSHIP payments for the jobless are to be scrapped after EVIDENCE has shown that taxpayers’ money is being wasted by the unemployed on LUXURIES such as keeping themselves and THEIR CHILDREN alive.
The plans to axe the hardship payments to the unemployed are a part of a FRESH CRACKDOWN by the coalition government on the SCANDALOUS WASTE of taxpayers money being given to unemployed parents to subsidise a LAVISH LIFESTYLE of giving their children a hot meal everyday and keeping them warm in winter.
More than 60,000 hardship grants were made last year to people whose benefits were stopped for failing to find work that doesn’t exist, attend imaginary interviews or take even one non-existent job.
But the Work and Pensions Secretary, Mr Duncan Smith, said he believes the cash is being FRITTERED AWAY on unessential things like food and children’s clothing instead of being used to pay for essentials such as bills from the private companies who are now running the country’s newly-privatised hospitals and schools:
Hardship payments should be just that — payments you receive when you are in a temporary, difficult period of starvation.
We don’t expect them to be used to fund life’s extras such as hot meals, warm clothes or staying alive.
Under the changes, the grants will be given only to those who can PROVE they face an imminent risk of death due to starvation.
Mr Duncan Smith plans to TIGHTEN THE CONDITIONS that claimants must meet to stop the money being squandered – by putting into place a series of TIGHT CHECKS AND BALANCES such as means tests for malnutrition and measuring how far children’s ribs are sticking out.
As an incentive, those who get a job and keep it for six months will not be expected to pay back any of the money if they die of starvation.
The move is the LATEST in the Government’s drive to end the long-term unemployed’s dependency on food and fondness for having children.
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Editor said:
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jaynel62 said:
I cannot believe that more people are just not rising up about the ongoing onslaught on the poor and vulnerable.
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Tom Pride said:
I know – a lot of people have fallen for the ubiquitous ‘scrounger’ line I’m afraid to say.
(I corrected the missing word BTW 🙂 )
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Tom Pride said:
Thanks for the support.
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hugosmum70 said:
as it always has been. soshall it always be. blow you jack i’m alright, typical of this country.the poor and vulnerable disabled and ill, either dont have the money to get from A to B or are too ill and disabled. if you could do these things your damned anyway cos if yu can lift a finger to help yourself yur classed as able to work.it needs honest caring able bodied people to fight for those who cant fight for themselves. most of us are doing what we can by signing petitions etc but are both physically and financially unable to do more.
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D R Prideaux said:
Eat the rich!
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Teresa Crew (@Beyond_Grad) said:
Great post, it is good to see something written that discusses the reality of how people use hardship fund payments. Up until I went to university I was a single parent who would often have to rely on crisis loans or loans to pay for simple things like a new cooker etc. When you apply for one of these loans you never get the full amount so if you are wise you will apply for more in order to have a chance of getting close to the amount you need. These loans, which I am still paying off, were used to either get me out of extreme hardship or put toward paying for a cooker, microwave or just having slightly extra to pay for shopping. As I always reiterate – politicians work for us and until we have politicians who have experienced what it is like to bring up children on such a small amount of money, who have filled in benefits forms etc, they will keep on cutting and cutting from the poorest people. We need to make a stand and not let the Daily Mail discourse dominates people’s way of thinking about benefits. The only difference between people claiming benefits; self employed people claiming back tax, or politicians claiming back expenses is that the latter two are sanctioned, welcomed and will never be touched. Apologies for having gone on, Teresa
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bobchewie said:
Ah it all makes sense now. So winning the sun bingo is to be spent on flash cars and big hpuses.
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