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Drink away your Benefit Money


DulwichFox

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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

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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.

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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

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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.
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