Just not fair play - Benefit cheat netted £18k in 12 months

[Swan_Vesta 11]

Psst. You are aiming at the wrong target.

 

Quite. She's still a thief who is currently paying back her ill claimed spoils and has her added community service as an extra punishment ... Maybe it's the jolt to her system to get a job?

 

These politicians are convicted on the basis that their office should mean that they are above such petty thievery, however, it would appear that they are as apt to dip their hands in the till as your average sink estate sket.

[satman2222 10]

So if she is married, why isn't she named as Mrs Linfitt?

 

 

 

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[Mecky 10]

How so? We're talking about a thief here are we not?

 

Are we not, can you not, will you not. My God, it sounds like you've been watching Coronation Street. Why not ask people if they are/can do things rather than if they can't. For example, you wouldn't say, "Will you not pass me that newspaper?" would you?

 

In reply to your question. I did not say what this couple did was right, it isn't. The point I was makinig is that there is move by the politicians, aided and abetted by media hype, to villify everyone who is unemployed and that includes unemployed people who desperately want to work.

[Halibut 12]

So if she is married, why isn't she named as Mrs Linfitt?

 

 

 

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Stupid post of the day award.

 

Because she chose to keep her own name. Think it through.

[*Belle* 10]

And the husband didn't move in with her until three years after they were wed?

[Tatman 10]

How so? We're talking about a thief here are we not?

 

Probably hit a raw nerve or something:D

[Tatman 10]

In reply to your question. I did not say what this couple did was right, it isn't. The point I was makinig is that there is move by the politicians, aided and abetted by media hype, to villify everyone who is unemployed and that includes unemployed people who desperately want to work.

 

Which the women in the op is not and does not.

She a thief and you seem to be getting a little too upset about all this.

Hitting close to home?

[Tatman 10]

Stupid post of the day award.

 

Because she chose to keep her own name. Think it through.

 

Oh for crying out loud.

Someones girlfriend has a puncture again:rolleyes:

[OldMotherMac 10]

So if she is married, why isn't she named as Mrs Linfitt?

 

 

 

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Bless. What an old fashioned soul.

[Dragonfall 10]

thats the most frightening part. 12 months and 18k for one kid!!!!! God knows what they get with 5 kids get

State Benefits for single parent with 5 children:

Lone Parent £ 65.45 p/wk

Dependant Child #1 £ 57.57 “

Dependant Child #2 £ 57.57 “

Dependant Child #3 £ 57.57 “

Dependant Child #4 £ 57.57 “

Dependant Child #5 £ 57.57 “

Family Premium £ 22.20 “

Total £ 375.50 per week, x 52wks = £ 19,526.00 per year

 

Add in rent & council tax paid in full by local authority (by Council Tax Benefit & Housing Benefit) = approx. £ 5,500.00. (Plus free dental/optical treatment & prescriptions etc)

Yearly NET income equivalent = £ 25,026

Edited June 10, 2011 by Dragonfall

[sues_budgie 10]

WELL, you say £25,000 net is lots, but its peanuts. Its only the eqivalent of £35,000 a year gross income

 

HOw on earth will people survive on that?

 

Think about it, if someone has 7 children, then they cannot be expected to live in a 2 bedroomed house.

 

Don't forget, we cannot punish the children as they don't derserve to be punished.

 

Lets not also forget that drugs are not cheap, so we should pay more to people with these kinds of problems in order to help them with there habit.

 

£35,000 PER ANNUM !!!! could you survive on that amount of money?

[Jim Hardie 527]

Are we not, can you not, will you not. My God, it sounds like you've been watching Coronation Street. Why not ask people if they are/can do things rather than if they can't. For example, you wouldn't say, "Will you not pass me that newspaper?" would you?

 

In reply to your question. I did not say what this couple did was right, it isn't. The point I was makinig is that there is move by the politicians, aided and abetted by media hype, to villify everyone who is unemployed and that includes unemployed people who desperately want to work.

 

What's Coronation Street to do with the price of eggs?