Quote Originally Posted by baggieal View Post
Everyone gets it! Bit like the energy payments of £67 given to everyone - why would you give these payments to those who are not struggling! I can honestly say - I donated my payments to charity as should many of others if they cared about those struggling.

So someone who is wealthy who has not shown an income for let’s say 2 years - why should they get this universal credit payment?

Sorry - I don’t get it! We all know those usually with money are the meanest of all and only interested in feathering their own nests!

There’s probably many people like me who have ended up supporting struggling family members due to the complexity and ineptitude of the benefits system.

It was so complicated that whilst my son was going through years of chaos due to his drug addiction, it was his mum and me who supported him……..trying to access benefits was a nightmare.

My one daughter had a nightmare when her feckless husband left her with a 12 month old baby, the benefits she could access were minimal because she was a house owner…….yep, with a mortgage set up based on the absent husbands income.

We ended up paying the t w a t off to ensure she didn’t lose the house but because she’s “owner” she can’t get any housing benefits.

This £1600 a month would’ve made a huge difference to my two kids and to my wife and I.

We have heavily subsidised a benefits system that was and is supposed to help people in these types of struggling circumstances.

I’m not bleating about our situation, I just know that there’s tens of thousands of people having to support family members due to ineptitude or even worse, people with no safety blanket.

It will also save millions employing inept benefits staff and the associated offices and infrastructure.