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| It should be noted that Mr Duncan Smith can live in £53 a week... One breakfast and £124 worth of sundries... So I'm sure you'll find that he doesn't claim this food allowance. Will someone please tell me why I am subsiding 650 MPs on top of their salaries, while an OAP gets £112 + or -!
Under the Commons additional costs allowance, MPs were
allowed to claim up to £400 for food every month – £4,800 a year – without
having to submit receipts.
That is until they abused the system and were caught and shamed by the Daily Telegraph for stealing vast amounts of taxpayers' money.
This allowance has since been replaced with a flat-rate sum of
£25 "for any night which a member spends away from his or her main home on
parliamentary business".
I'm not sure how they make that £160 a week.
However, on the basis that they may be away for between 4 and 7 nights a week that comes to between £100 and £175 a week.
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Showing posts with label Scroungers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scroungers. Show all posts
Friday, 31 October 2014
LET'S COME DOWN REALLY HARD ON SCROUNGERS
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
SOCIAL SECURITY FOR THE VERY RICHEST, THANKS TO WESTMINSTER GOVERNMENT
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| Home sweet home: Benyon's manor and with fellow Tory fatcat landlords Earl Cadogan, Sir Richard Drax and Lard Cavendish |
When the Tories spew their bile about benefit claimants
receiving £20,000 a year in benefits people should always keep in mind that 70%
of that figure is in housing benefit and the claimant does not see a single
penny of that money it goes straight to their landlords.
The Tories have a lot of MPs, aristos and important donors who are mass landlords and they receive an awful lot of taxpayers’ money in housing benefit whilst pointing the finger at their tenants, when they are the ones who have pocketed the majority of their tenants’ benefit claims!!
Some unemployed may get thousands of pounds in benefits but unless they are defrauding the system they still only get £73 pounds per week to live on and pay their bills and eat, the majority of the claim goes to the landlord.
So next time the Tories get you to hate on the poor just remember who the ones are that are getting very wealthy out of our benefit system and just why the Tories refuse to build social housing in England.
The Tories have a lot of MPs, aristos and important donors who are mass landlords and they receive an awful lot of taxpayers’ money in housing benefit whilst pointing the finger at their tenants, when they are the ones who have pocketed the majority of their tenants’ benefit claims!!
Some unemployed may get thousands of pounds in benefits but unless they are defrauding the system they still only get £73 pounds per week to live on and pay their bills and eat, the majority of the claim goes to the landlord.
So next time the Tories get you to hate on the poor just remember who the ones are that are getting very wealthy out of our benefit system and just why the Tories refuse to build social housing in England.
Remember no one gets rich off of somebody living in social
housing.
Pardon the spelling in the illustration.
Sunday, 20 June 2010
WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS NEW DWP REGIME ABOUT?
I’m a little worried.
I heard that Mr Cameron was going to get a little harder on people who persistently refuse to work, and who scrounge off society. And, having worked in the business of getting people into work for more than 10 years, I thought ....Good.
He’s going to do something about the ones that the DWP are afraid of... you know, the ones who’ve been done for murder or GBH or armed robbery, and who present a thug-like exterior to the Job Centre and who, therefore, are excused most of the 'back to work' rubbish that successive governments have churned out.
I also thought that it was likely that he would target the “I’m going to have babies for a living” set. The ones that every time it looks like the dole may be catching up on them get themselves pregnant again. “Oh... I’ve fell pregnant... I dunno how that could have happened” (Maybe the same way as last time and the time before and the time before that... just with a different partner.)
But I was wrong. According to The Sunday Post, Willie Durrent of Dunfermline was called to a “fit for work” interview while undergoing radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. He was being fed through a tube in his neck and the man has less than a year to live.
OK, you might think that the Dept of Work and Pensions, like the rest of us, is capable of error and that, when they were called to appraise them of the fact that he wouldn’t be able to attend and explain why, the clerk would have apologised profusely and given sincere condolences... you know, like human beings do when they discover that they have got it badly wrong and one of their number is terminally ill.
Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. To the Durrents’ shock, they were told that the meeting was compulsory and all the DWP could do was delay the interview.
No, “sorry you’re dying...” just “get your lazy arse in here for an interview or we’ll stop your benefit”.
Mr Durrent is not a compulsive scrounger. He has in fact worked all his life and he is 58. He is however dying of cancer, and that makes it impossible for him to work any longer. You’d really think they could do better.
I heard that Mr Cameron was going to get a little harder on people who persistently refuse to work, and who scrounge off society. And, having worked in the business of getting people into work for more than 10 years, I thought ....Good.
He’s going to do something about the ones that the DWP are afraid of... you know, the ones who’ve been done for murder or GBH or armed robbery, and who present a thug-like exterior to the Job Centre and who, therefore, are excused most of the 'back to work' rubbish that successive governments have churned out.
I also thought that it was likely that he would target the “I’m going to have babies for a living” set. The ones that every time it looks like the dole may be catching up on them get themselves pregnant again. “Oh... I’ve fell pregnant... I dunno how that could have happened” (Maybe the same way as last time and the time before and the time before that... just with a different partner.)
But I was wrong. According to The Sunday Post, Willie Durrent of Dunfermline was called to a “fit for work” interview while undergoing radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. He was being fed through a tube in his neck and the man has less than a year to live.
OK, you might think that the Dept of Work and Pensions, like the rest of us, is capable of error and that, when they were called to appraise them of the fact that he wouldn’t be able to attend and explain why, the clerk would have apologised profusely and given sincere condolences... you know, like human beings do when they discover that they have got it badly wrong and one of their number is terminally ill.
Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. To the Durrents’ shock, they were told that the meeting was compulsory and all the DWP could do was delay the interview.
No, “sorry you’re dying...” just “get your lazy arse in here for an interview or we’ll stop your benefit”.
Mr Durrent is not a compulsive scrounger. He has in fact worked all his life and he is 58. He is however dying of cancer, and that makes it impossible for him to work any longer. You’d really think they could do better.
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