The Purple Scorpion has stumbled across this delightful tale of a whole family of scroungers who breed like rabbits.
Between them, they get £34,000 a year in benefits, plus three council houses.
Under a sensible Citizen's Income-type welfare scheme they'd get (2006-07 rates - see page 7)
5 x £34, plus 1 x £45 plus 1 x £57 per week = £272 x 52 weeks = £14,144 a year between them.
Seems fair to me.
And, if council housing were allocated on a strict waiting list basis, rather than priority being given to existing social tenants and young women who have kids, they'd probably still all be in the same council house (this idea pinched off Roger Thornhill)
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Oh yes I heard in my local laundrette about a 27 year old getting 28000 in benefits for having five children from five different fathers.
its happening with frequent regularity
Sorry Launderette , its seems the film My Beautiful Laundrette has a lot to answer for
But can you blame them? They are just playing the system, which is totally mad, surely?
Compared to what we've got, is the Citizen's Income idea any madder?
Aren't launderettes frightfully expensive? Buy a washing machine/dryer for £400 and you've got your money back in about six months.
I know I used only use it for drying clothes in the winter when I only had a washing machine and it was round the corner and a pound wasn't that much for dry clothes once a week for three months of the year.
I now have a bosch washer and a integrated vented tumble dryer as well as the washing line.
I can't blame them. I remember one of my first patients who saved enough on DLA to go to Australia for three months. My then consultant remarked we were in wrong game. This is back in 1997
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