Should benefits be scrapped ?

[Zak]

Yes they should be scrapped.

My parents earn well over £30,000 a year so I never recieved any bonuses. They said when I finished school at 16, they wouldn't be paying for much anymore.

So I had to get a job, like most other people and work hard for my money. While others just sit around at home, do nothing and get £30. May not seem fair but that's the way it goes.

[tdi]

I think they should be scrapped or at least reviewed, it's a case of 'give them an inch and they'll take a mile'

granted there's some people who physically can't work but then there's useless benefit frauding scum which we have to pay for.

[JackBuddy]

And you moan at people getting EMA for staying at school, getting further education and getting a good income in the future, yet you moan at people that aren't doing anything, sitting around at home with no income.

I'm all for EMA if it works fairly. My parents couldn't afford to give me £30 a week so why can't I get it? That money takes me 5 hours to earn every saturday. If I qualified to get EMA I wouldn't need to bother.

As somebody said earlier, EMA should just cover travel costs.

Before somebody moans at me for being jealous... even if I did get EMA I wouldn't complain, but I would still know that the system isn't fair.

[Funya Chin]

Why would you be jealous of people getting £30 a week lol?

When I work, I get about £60 a week and now I'm not, I get £47 a week so there's nothing really to be jealous of.

[Misawa]

No, they should not. Some families genuinely need them, and benefit, pun intended, from them greatly. It is those who abus the system by getting a lot of money and not striving to work, etc, who should be "scrapped".

[hamheyelliot]

You'll regret not getting benefits some day ;]

[Dan2nd]

I think its funny ... just because my parents were earning an amount of money which is over the cut of for EMA or w.e I wasn't entitled to get it.. My parents expect me to buy my own books, food for college, pens, pencils, clothes, train fees and much more.. thats why I got a job at Waitrose. Why should I have to go out and get a job to buy my supplys because of my parents (not me) earn a certain ammount of money?

It really ticks me off how some of my friends are like 'oh it's friday EMA has been paid.. looks like I'm going to have a good weekend' While I have to spend my satuday earning my money. I just don't think it's fair =l

[Nemo]

I think its funny ... just because my parents were earning an amount of money which is over the cut of for EMA or w.e I wasn't entitled to get it.. My parents expect me to buy my own books, food for college, pens, pencils, clothes, train fees and much more.. thats why I got a job at Waitrose. Why should I have to go out and get a job to buy my supplys because of my parents (not me) earn a certain ammount of money?

It really ticks me off how some of my friends are like 'oh it's friday EMA has been paid.. looks like I'm going to have a good weekend' While I have to spend my satuday earning my money. I just don't think it's fair =l

Why do you, and so many others have to be jealous? They aren't as priviledged but they get rewarded. You act like its their fault that your parents make you work for your books..

[Dan2nd]

Why do you, and so many others have to be jealous? They aren't as priviledged but they get rewarded. You act like its their fault that your parents make you work for your books..

That is the exact kind of attitude which annoys me to be honest. First of all I hate how everyone who receives EMA seem to just say to people like me 'oh your just jealous' well wouldn't you be if a friend of yours was being paid for something you weren't? :rolleyes: Secondly I'm not acting like it's my friends fault at all... I'm more angry with the people who organise EMA or the goverment or whatever for not taking into account each case as an individual thing rather than just painting everyone with one brush.. its all fair and good people receiving benifits demanding not to be labeled as 'lower class' or 'chavy' what gives people to right to assume someone like me doesn't deserve EMA just as much as you?

[Kardan]

I think its funny ... just because my parents were earning an amount of money which is over the cut of for EMA or w.e I wasn't entitled to get it.. My parents expect me to buy my own books, food for college, pens, pencils, clothes, train fees and much more.. thats why I got a job at Waitrose. Why should I have to go out and get a job to buy my supplys because of my parents (not me) earn a certain ammount of money?

It really ticks me off how some of my friends are like 'oh it's friday EMA has been paid.. looks like I'm going to have a good weekend' While I have to spend my satuday earning my money. I just don't think it's fair =l

But in extreme suituations you have your parents to fall back on, they could easily supply you with your equipment but choose not to do so.

Teenagers in a poorer background won't have their parents money to fall back on in case of emergencies, hence EMA.