Should benefits be scrapped ?

[Hayd93]

Should benefits be scrapped ?

In my opinion yes they should. It basicly encourges people to stay at hme and would be alot better spend on something like a hospital. The thing that annoys me is EMA, They are giving students money for being at collage for education and they go and spend it on things like phones. This annoys me even more when people who accually pay there taxs and do godo for the country get jack **** but lazy scroungers get it all.

It really does make me sick that the **** we pay for. My parents pay there tax, for what some chav to go to school that all you get is a ruck of abuse off them. In my opinion they should be writing thank you letters.

Anyway your views.

[Havoline]

Ema I think should stay, fair enough most spend it on phones but you do get quite a few who are from a poor family and can't afford to learn just with their parents wages. This gives them the opportunity to get an education. Also the ones who spend it on phones etc. are further disadvantaged. It also means that people can't use the excuse they come from a poor family as an excuse for having a bad education.

[prada]

im with you brudda!!!!!! i agree that like benfits should be there for people who physically can't work, but peeps who are just LAZY should be made to work for their money like everybody else. and yeah ema should be scrapped, its crap! my parents earn over 30k and id never get 30 quid a week to spend on **** lmao but i think in some ways it should stay because some people can't actually afford like books or pens or out and it is a bit depressing but i think in some ways maybe their parents should have worked harder to get further? all cases are different though so its hard to judge the whole of ema just on the selfish ***** who buy their cigs and stuff with it

[Moh]

With benefits, the majority actually spend it stuff they need.

When in education nearly every day, it is hard to get a job to pay for luxury items. Some parents expect there kids to pay for there own stuff once there old enough to earn money them selfs.

Luckily, my mum has an okish wage, so I don't have to spend my money on luxury items

But EMA comes in handy for me because:
Travel - £2.10 per day, 4 days a week:
£8.40
Food - £4/5 per day, 4 days a week:
£16
Snacks during college - £3 per day, 4 days a week
£12

So on an average week, I will be spending more than my £30 ema.

But I usaly steal my sisters bus pass so I get free travel now and then


I think people should be assessed before getting benifits. Such as Job Seakers allouance, alot of the people can get jobs, but why work when you can get the same amount not working?

So some allouance's should be lowered.

[Nemo]

They should stay forever and ever. EMA is a little over, maybe should be lowered but since i'll probaly get it, im not really complaining.

But like my mum is on benefits, not by choice or 'laziness' just the fact her life got screwed up in terms of education from a young age and then had some ermmm.... unlucky health problems which means she cant work. Although she is trying which a lot of these people should do, eg. shes starting college soon.

People who are on benefits (depending on which one) should be MADE to get a job within the first month, because after that it pretty much is laziness.

[BlueEyedSarah]

Some people are unable to work and in no fit state to work so why take away money they need to earn in life? For the ones who are capable of working and are on unemployment money the job seekers do everything to help find a job to get you off the benifit money asap.

[jrh2002]

I think for job seekers you should only be allowed to claim 1 years worth in your lifetime and then any extra you need you get back out what you have paid in through national insurance. The fact I know people from school who have never worked and always claimed always have plenty of cash :eusa_wall

People on incapacity through no fault of their own need to be looked after but surely if they are capable of doing any job even answering phones should be pushed back into work. Anybody with stress or depression should get nothing unless we can give them ropes with ready tied nooses just to stop them scrounging off the state.

I think anybody who has a child and cant afford them themselves or with help from their family should have the kid taken off them. Why should my tax pay for all these scum bags who have kids just for the benefits and a house/flat? Maybe if you want to claim benefits you should be forced to have the contaceptive injection (Including men if its possible) just to stop you breeding a future generation of wasters to follow in your footsteps.

People who end up stuck through death need looking after and any divorces should take into account the childrens future should be on the settlement to make sure they dont become a burden on my tax.

How come people come here who are of retirement age can get a full pention even though they have never paid a penny into our system?

Chuck all people on benefits into hostels and let the people who work hard have the council houses as they will pay for them.

Yes I am pretty harsh but why should others who pay tax have their hard earned money spent on ppl who expect to sit on their ***** all their life and do nothing.

I was once told if we have a disaster in britain we are all out helping but when a disaster happens abroad (3rd world etc) the people just sit at the side of the road and watch the aid workers do everything That is just how I see 95% of the people on benefits in the uk. lazy scroungers.

I do however understand there are people who do deserve benefits who lose their jobs through no fault of their own as well as people injured or disabled who need lots of help. I imagine the people who deserve benefits feel very annoyed when they see all these free loaders who are giving all benefit claiments a bad name.

[,Jess,]

Should benefits be scrapped ?

In my opinion yes they should. It basicly encourges people to stay at hme and would be alot better spend on something like a hospital. The thing that annoys me is EMA, They are giving students money for being at collage for education and they go and spend it on things like phones. This annoys me even more when people who accually pay there taxs and do godo for the country get jack **** but lazy scroungers get it all.

It really does make me sick that the **** we pay for. My parents pay there tax, for what some chav to go to school that all you get is a ruck of abuse off them. In my opinion they should be writing thank you letters.

Anyway your views.

A lot of people genuinely need benefits to get by and some people cannot work for various reasons ones you might not know just by looking at them so it is really unfair to generalise.

I get EMA and I think it's fair, I pay £15 a week for busfair and then I have to buy my lunch and books for English and stuff so EMA covers it and what I have left over, which last year was right at the end of the year then yeah I admit I used some on myself but really seeing as it's there and available to me I don't see why I shouldn't. I do think though that it would be better if the people who sort EMA look better at individuals circumstances because lots of people who could do with the extra money miss out.

Also the comments about chavs and stuff. I'm not being funny but like just because someone may have less money or their parents don't work doesn't make them a chav lol.

Oh and yeah there are some people who scrounge off of the benefits system but not everyone on benefits or who gets ema is like that and some people wouldn't be able to get by without it so no it shouldn't be scrapped.

[Nereo]

I think you just need to find all the people on incapacity benefit who are perfectly capable of working and get them back into work

By force if necessary

[jrh2002]

I am all for benefits for the people who deserve them But instead of it being a stop gap when you are down on your luck or have health problems there are so manyyyyyyyyyy people who use benefits as their income and expect to recieve them forever. I was listening to the radio the other month and some guy said he wont come off benefits unless he gets a job on 25k a year :s because with all his benefits and housing thats what he would need to survive :s he should get any job and work his way up. A person who has worked for 6 months on the minimum wage or some guy who has been on benefits for ages. who would you employ?

I understand the EMA but it should be for ALL or nobody. How is it right that the people with jobs or higher paid jobs who pay the most in to the system have to support others and their own? We could mention free uni in scotland and free perscriptions in wales but thats another debate.

An old family friend who lost her husband and after a while couldnt look after herself at home went into a care home she was forced to sell the house her and her husband had worked for over the years to pay for her care :@ then there were people there who have never worked hard in their lives and claimed benefit who because they had nothing got their care paid for by the government.

This new help for ppl in trouble with their houses yet again is wrong. if me and my neighbour have identical houses and both a similar salary but i worked hard and saved every penny to keep my bills paid then great but if they have pissed or gambled their cash up the wall and find themselves in mortgage trouble the governement scheme will help them :s

Work hard and get penalised

Be a lazy scrounger and get rewarded

When will this country realise that rewarding people for failing in life is the wrong thing to do? And then penalising the hard working people who even though at times struggle and make a success of their lives. It gets me so angry.