What do you think about the benefits system?

Question

What do you think about the benefits system?

Answer 1

Its a joke.................

my sister in law is single living in a council house with two children ages 8 and 12, she can afford to buy them so many things, play stations, games, holidays abroad and she doesnt work at all

I am married we own our home and have just had our first baby, but because my husband works full time I cannot afford not to go back to work after maternity leave!

Its a joke, it doesnt make sense at all!!!

Answer 2

what the hek r they?

Answer 3

The world loves the UK benifits system.......Please don't spoil it...

Answer 4

It's flawed, but it's better than the alternative.

GiGo

Answer 5

The benefits system can be a real help to some peoples life's, but others just use it as an option of a way of living when they can get a real job.

The benefits system should have new regulations which are stricter for who can collect benefits..

Answer 6

The problem with the benefits system is it seems to favour the poorer sections of our society.  

I think this inequlity and outright prejudice should end.

Everyone, rich and poor, should get a slice of the pie.

Answer 7

Too easy for people to abuse. It should only be a safety net and not a way of life.

Answer 8

absolute sham. we pay our taxes etc to pay for shamefull individuals and there's me struggling to pay for my medication at 7.10 a go!

Answer 9

everybody is saying the benefit system is rubbish and they have to struggle to make ends meet working 5 days a week.

if you think its so good why don't you stop moaning and go on them?

if living on benifits is so good why are you slogging your guts out in a job when you go be living high on hog taking benifits?

why kill your self woking if you can as is claimed get free money?  you must be mad

Answer 10

EXTREMELY flawed.  Kills the middle class, makes the rich richer, and is completely impractical.

Answer 11

I think its a sham, the wrong people are getting rewarded for being single, pregnant or foreign!!  Im a young(ish) married mum with a mortgage, hubby got made redundant 5 weeks ago, the tax credits still havnt sorted my claim so I have had no money of them, Job seekers allowance is £92 a week which is c**p when  you have a family of 4 to feed, and if you cant go to there weekly check in they stop it! Which happened when hubby got held up at an interview, he rang apologised and they stopped his money.  Also if I rented my house we could claim housing benefit but cos we have a mortgage we cannot claim any releif until 12 weeks of unemployment in which time we will acrue penalties and charges.  What a load of bollocks!!  Thankfully hubby has a job and we are going to be ok but thats with no help form the benefits system!!!

Answer 12

benefits the rich and robs the poor and does nothing for the middle class, which is how america has been for a long time.

Answer 13

we have a benefits system?

dont think much of it, waste of money! we benefit those who dont work, wont work, wont try! ok there sum exceptions.

but for those who work, try, slave away day after day -trying to make ends meet - what do we get?

my mate - she has nothing wrong with her. she has had depression, but is fine now. she is registered disable due to this.

she dont work, she is out every  nite, partying, getting drunk. she cant drive but has a brand new car for her boyfriend to drive round in (he works part time, not interested in full time work)  - how is that fair?

me? i have a full time job, also a part time job at weekend, a car that just gets from a to b, no social life due to no wasting money, bills etc, full health - where are my benefits?

Answer 14

In the UK it's far too easy.

My neighbour has numerous benefits coming out of her ears!

She can afford 3 holidays a year (to the US, Egypt, etc), has recently fully redecorated throughout (new furniture, LCD TV's), has a new car.......whilst me and the other half both work full-time and haven't had a holiday for over 3 years.

Way too easy to get the handouts and no incentive (for her) to get back to work.

Answer 15

Its a total mess up, with people walking into this Country, and picking up money that they have never worked for, and then go on to abuse it further. The only ones entitled to it are those who have worked, paid into it, and then been made refundant through no fault of their own. This is because our National Health, of which workers pay into has been violated by all the foreigners who know its an easy ride, and our Government must put a stop to all this pilfering, and abuse.Years ago you had to have worked and put your stamps on as it was then, otherwise you got nothing.., so you went out and found another job. To people today, this may seem draconian , but it worked then, and there was no fiddling with it.

Answer 16

To people who are genuine carers I think it stinks. They only receive £55. and so many pence for looking after someone who  probably would have to go into a home if the carer wasn't there to look after them.

Then there are others who abuse the system, like some I know of in the area where I live. One is incapacitated that much he can't go to work, yet he can have 5 or 6 cars per year, not the sort you can have on invalidity, and climb on his roof to put the Christmas decorations up each year. And he can afford scaffolding to get up there as well.

Strikes me the whole Country is to pot never mind the benefits system.

Answer 17

hahahaha

Answer 18

Its become a joke.

When I was unemployed I would rather starve than sign on - to me, it made me think I would associated with those useless scroungers who demand everything for nothing and haven't the least bit of interest in actually getting a job.

My friend told me thats the wrong way to think - I'd earned the right the claim benefits because I'd paid my NI and that it is there to support me through a financially difficult time.

Whilst she is right, the benefits system doesn't promote that ethic at all. Not one single d**n bit.

Answer 19

So unfair.

Answer 20

friends with benefits are ideal.

Answer 21

The benefits system was designed to be a safety net - to catch you when you fell on hard times and give you funds to eat and keep a roof over your head until you could find employment.

It's now turned into a hammock, paying far to much to people, where there is no incentive for anyone to go out and look for work.