Drink away your Benefit Money

[DulwichFox]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > After being made redundant in 2008 and still

> > ueimployed have not claimed or indeed been told

> > intitled to a single

> > penny in benefits since.

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> You got a nice little pay-off then.

Yes but with 0.1% interest... after 3 years ... there is not much left.

:(

Fox

[Jah Lush]

Yeah! Mine's almost gone too.

[Sue]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Yes but with 0.1% interest... after 3 years ...

> there is not much left.

> :(

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xxxxxxx

0.1% ?

I know interest rates are low, but surely you could find something paying higher interest than that?!?!?!

Highest Paying Savings

I do sympathise because I took a lump sum as part of my pension and now I wish I hadn't because what's left of it is plummeting in value :-S

ETA: In the past even when I took voluntary redundancy it didn't affect my entitlement to JSA ???? The contributions - based kind, not the means-tested kind, anyway.

[Otta]

I just can't believe people can drink all day and smoke on their benefit money. Had I known this, I would've quit work years ago!

[Annette Curtain]

There's a new on-the-lash/benefits-street model being developed in Dartmouth Road ,Forest Hill.

Within easy signing-stumbling-distance of each other you've got: The "Ha-Ha" Job Centre next door to a new Pub called The Stamp (ex-postoffice) then Paddy Power, then The Wok Express and.

Over the road is Boots the chemist and The Bird-in-Hand pub.

Really, it's a Slackers Royal Flush.

There's also random street furniture, the pavement & even a "tree" for the exhausted clients to "chillax" on.

NETTE:-S

[camberwell70]

It's funny how, on this subject, you've all turned into BBW.

[Annette Curtain]

I know C70

We're a bunch of conts aren't we.

Merry X-mas.

NETTE:)

[DJKillaQueen]

It is a touchy subject. The daily mail would have us believe that a life on benefits is somehow more cushy than for those in work. For the vast majority of people on benefits it isn't. The average payout for living expenses for a single person is just 67 quid a week. And that is for everything. Food, electric, gas, clothing etc. I defy anyone to get by like that for very long.