Jack Monroe #548 Recipes that come with a side of electrocution and burnt down house for pudding

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Just to add when I got tax credits I was working full time in a professional job but I'm a single parent with a hefty childcare bill. For every "went to Glastonbury with col payment story" there are 300 "trying to keep the lights on because my fuel bill has trebled" stories.
I now earn £40k and am just as skint as when I earned £25k a few years ago.
 
The £300 COL payments don't go to people on contributions based (where you can have any amount of savings) benefits, it's just for people on benefits which are already means tested, I think. Certainly for esa/UC stuff, not sure on anything to do with child tax credits and that malarkey, cause I'm far too selfish for kids. People on (just) PIP for example don't get it, because PIP isn't means tested.

Also valerian root is totally safe for cats, I grow it for mine. Stinky stuff, but it works magic in calming them down. Not sure about valerian teabags!
 
... Before I nod off.... why.... if you'd bothered to set up a camera, put makeup on and fish your grey undies out of the laundry basket, would you pose next to a pot of cutlery?
Maybe it's a message for LJC as an attempt to win her back.

Perhaps Jack does a very special thing with spoons and her unruly labia that LJC found alluring.

What a thought to wake up to.
 
Most people who got the COL payments work. Over 50% of the UK are in receipt of universal credit/,tax credits and the vsst majority are in work benefits. Unfortunately rather than forcing companies to pay people a living wage, the government would rather top up with in work benefits and sell the lie that benefits claimants are spongers.

The same with PIP. Getting PIP doesn’t mean you can’t work, drive, leave the house and socialise. In fact it was pretty much specifically designed to enable people to do those things (though obviously there are people getting PIP who are unable to do those things too and money won’t fix that).

But the spongers claim is so endemic thanks to the government that all benefits are viewed as equal.

It’s very hard to blag anything disability related too, despite what the government would like you to think - and all the stories of the people who struggle to get the help despite immediately obvious (ie visible) disabilities that clearly won’t improve pretty much proves how hard it is to get them.
 
Just to add when I got tax credits I was working full time in a professional job but I'm a single parent with a hefty childcare bill. For every "went to Glastonbury with col payment story" there are 300 "trying to keep the lights on because my fuel bill has trebled" stories.
I now earn £40k and am just as skint as when I earned £25k a few years ago.
I get that. It was probably a poor example. I definitely don't believe or push the DM 'everyone on benefits is a scrounger' angle. I personally know 1 person who claims PIP honestly and at least a dozen who don't though. Ppl tend to go by their own visible or empirical experience. I know this corrupt government must love it when we point out who got an extra crumb while they and their cronies make off with the whole cake. My objection is to the culture of blag what you can while working ppl are meant to smile and wink along at it. That's something fairly new and very objectionable. The probably clumsy point of my post was the lack of conversation around what having 8 hours plus an hours travelling either side a day stolen from you 5 days a week does to you mentally when all it does is allow you to survive. Love to all struggling.
 
Just to add when I got tax credits I was working full time in a professional job but I'm a single parent with a hefty childcare bill. For every "went to Glastonbury with col payment story" there are 300 "trying to keep the lights on because my fuel bill has trebled" stories.
I now earn £40k and am just as skint as when I earned £25k a few years ago.
Absolutely the same. I had more disposable income and better holidays 10 years ago on 22k as i do now on 43k
 
I would just say, @Foxvint some of them will get caught. Making it common knowledge that they're claiming fraudulently and declaring that anyone who doesn't is a fool is all great larks until someone with a grudge shops them.
Then it's interview under caution, here are pics of you up a ladder, here's you and your "estranged" partner on FB celebrating your anniversary in Corfu, now we want our £100k over the last 14 years back please?
Their complacency gets them convicted. I'd hate to live with that hanging over me.
 
The PIP thing is difficult. We get higher rate DLA for our severely autistic child. Do we technically need it? No. We are comfortable, with a decent household income. However it enables him to access some extra curriculars that are 3 times the price simply because the words ‘SEN’ are involved, and also helps us to pay for private therapies because the NHS provision is so poor. I’m sure there are many who think we shouldn’t claim it because we live comfortably, but in my view that money is to make his very difficult life a little bit more pleasant for him.
 
Thanks all for your thoughtful replies i will reflect on. I try to remember a disabled person suffering chronic pain would love the privilege of moaning about work. We all have our cross to bear and my post could've been interpreted less generously. My resentment is towards scammers, grifters and liars of all stripes only.
 
The PIP thing is difficult. We get higher rate DLA for our severely autistic child. Do we technically need it? No. We are comfortable, with a decent household income. However it enables him to access some extra curriculars that are 3 times the price simply because the words ‘SEN’ are involved, and also helps us to pay for private therapies because the NHS provision is so poor. I’m sure there are many who think we shouldn’t claim it because we live comfortably, but in my view that money is to make his very difficult life a little bit more pleasant for him.
Absolutely @WhyYouCry? Those allowances exist because no-one (regardless of income) should have to bear all of the additional costs incurred by their disability. I'm glad, even proud, that I live in a country where we have schemes that provide that help without means-testing. If someone feels they're sufficiently well off to not claim it then fair play to them, but I'd 100% support them taking it.
(There's a deeper issue with govt treatment of disability which is covered really well in Frances Ryan's Crippled - Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People).
 
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