Jennyonaplate
Gold Member
To be fair, it's not the claimants we should be blaming, it's the flawed system that allows people some people to claim and others not.
My life would be so so different with 32k a year.
They (the govt) really need to revise the system so that honest hard working people can claim and the bone idle people who would rather sit on their a*se all day and pretend to be ill instead of work can't take the mickey out of the system.
My OH's mum is very ill at the moment but is having to work full time as she can't claim a penny. She applied for DLA so she could go part time instead and got refused, she appealed and got refused again. It's heartbreaking to see her in this ill health and having to work full time, yet there's people out there pretending to be disabled and what-not and getting away with it.
It really makes my blood boil too.
Have been there everyday to take my kids to school and pick them up never used child minders or clubs my kids would have hated it. Have worked at the same supermarket for 16 years. Started working 8.30pm to midnight when they were little and have gradually changed to 10.00pm to 6.00am. Could have stayed working days and earn't more but wanted to be there for my kids. However i admire people that can do both just know i couldn't so filling shelves it is.
It was by no means a dig, sorry if it sounded like it. We all make our choices. I would never knock anyone for doing what they think best
If we were new immigrants from another European Union country, benefits would start immediately.