Bingo winner refused state benefits!

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Two years ago she wins £50k, splits with bingo colleague! so that's £25k and spends the money ... Two years later she's skint and tries to claim benefits but is refused on the grounds she could have managed the money better :cuckoo: Jobsworths strike again .... :cuckoo:
 
Sorry am I missing something here?

That's our money that the benefits office are dishing out. Or not in this case.

Sounds good enough to me, should do it more often.
 
munch said:
Sorry am I missing something here?

That's our money that the benefits office are dishing out. Or not in this case.

Sounds good enough to me, should do it more often.
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Why?

She's lived off £25k for two years and the money has gone? So what happens next?
 
It's a bit difficult to comment on it when we don't know all the facts...
 
If she has sufficient brain cells to operate a bingo sheet then she should be able to hold a job of some sort.
 
TBH I can see why she was refused.

She has had two years of doing sweet FA spending the money when she could have been working part time and making the money last properly.

THere are too many people who coast through life expecting taxpayers to foot the bill and quite frankly a lot of us who work hard for what we have are sick of it.
 
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AnnaV said:
It's a bit difficult to comment on it when we don't know all the facts...
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2blue4u said:
If she has sufficient brain cells to operate a bingo sheet then she should be able to hold a job of some sort.
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OK :) I don't know all the facts :D but apparantly she's a single mum :shrug: My point is that someone, somewhere can decide how you spend your money. Whats next? ... Sell your camera gear, your children :cuckoo:
 
RichardtheSane said:
TBH I can see why she was refused.

She has had two years of doing sweet FA spending the money when she could have been working part time and making the money last properly.

THere are too many people who coast through life expecting taxpayers to foot the bill and quite frankly a lot of us who work hard for what we have are sick of it.
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Can you live on £12.5k a year ..... She did and the money has gone ... How long should it last?

Actually I agree but my point is some jobsworth is changing the rules!
 
They have always decided how you spend your money.

The other side of this one is people who have worked all there lives put a little aside to ease there retirement and then when they need help the state says sorry you have to help yourselves.

Whilst the neighbour next door who has been in and out of work all his life (mostly his own doing) has no savings the local bookie and landlord has those, gets all the help available.

The system has never been fair.
 
Just seen it on the news, spend most of it on holidays and pleasure things. So she must have had some money saved up from before. Own fault, no benefits for her :D
 
Andy said:
Just seen it on the news, spend most of it on holidays and pleasure things. So she must have had some money saved up from before. Own fault, no benefits for her :D
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So they just die then :thinking:
 
Splog said:
So they just die then :thinking:
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If there is possibility of death you wouldn't spunk your money on random **** would you?

They are on benefits because they're in a position where they need it. If you win 50K on the bingo, you're no longer in a position to claim benefits, I would assume.

But yeah, without all the details this thread is just pure speculation. She might have spent the 25k she kept for herself on medical care for her children for all we know.
 
KayJay said:
If there is possibility of death you wouldn't spunk your money on random **** would you?

They are on benefits because they're in a position where they need it. If you win 50K on the bingo, you're no longer in a position to claim benefits, I would assume.

But yeah, without all the details this thread is just pure speculation. She might have spent the 25k she kept for herself on medical care for her children for all we know.
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have you actually read the post? .... Point is that some jobsworth is making the rules ... The state decides the rules, not some plonker trying to save money :shake: If a single mother has no money and is refused benefits then what? Try to think of the bigger picture and not an individual case :thinking:
 
Splog said:
have you actually read the post? .... Point is that some jobsworth is making the rules ... The state decides the rules, not some plonker trying to save money :shake: If a single mother has no money and is refused benefits then what? Try to think of the bigger picture and not an individual case :thinking:
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In that case your post is as completely irrelevant as mine. How can either of us think of the bigger picture when we know NONE OF THE FACTS. There's not even a link to a bloody news story. We're posting speculative posts based on... speculation.

So in that regard, I wouldn't really worry about whether or not I've read the first post, because this thread is completely useless without any sort of fact to base our arguments on.
 
Splog said:
OK :) I don't know all the facts :D but apparantly she's a single mum :shrug: My point is that someone, somewhere can decide how you spend your money. Whats next? ... Sell your camera gear, your children :cuckoo:
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Why can't someone at the benefits office tell you how to spend your money? If you're on benefits you're spending my money funded through tax payments... I'd like to tell you how to spend it.
 
Just to add from the link above, spend on a new car, holidays, gift, and furniture. If any benefits are given they should be very minimal and short term to get her life back to the way it was before all this. Its her own fault, no body elses.
 
“While we accept reasonable spending of savings or similar resources when calculating entitlement to means-tested benefits, we have to be sure the taxpayer is not being asked to pay someone who has deliberately spent money or used up resources that could have provided an alternative income”.
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Bang on!
 
MagicMynx said:
I think I'm on the wrong forum...I thought this was talk photography's out of focus....not Money Saving Experts General discussion... benefit bashing at it's best...
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Yup, wrong forum luv, this is talktaxesandbenefits.com ;)
 
Her benefits were immediately stopped and she launched on a wild spending spree, blowing money on luxury holidays, a car, driving lessons, a new television, furniture, weekends away and on gifts to family and friends.
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From the original Sun article.

This implies the benefits were stopped as soon as she had won the prize. So that in turns means she knew her benefits were stopped and rather than using the money for important things like feeding her children and supplementing her income she spent it on furniture, holidays and a brand new car.

How can anyone defend that?
 
KayJay said:
In that case your post is as completely irrelevant as mine. How can either of us think of the bigger picture when we know NONE OF THE FACTS. There's not even a link to a bloody news story. We're posting speculative posts based on... speculation.

So in that regard, I wouldn't really worry about whether or not I've read the first post, because this thread is completely useless without any sort of fact to base our arguments on.
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Read the posts... :bang: POINT IS SOME JOBSWORTH DECIDES THE RULES ... The state decides the rules. Care to answer the question "If someone has no money? then how do they live?"
 
Splog said:
Care to answer the question "If someone has no money? then how do they live?"
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By working for money, sounds like she hasn't had a working day in her life.
 
KayJay said:
From the original Sun article.

This implies the benefits were stopped as soon as she had won the prize. So that in turns means she knew her benefits were stopped and rather than using the money for important things like feeding her children and supplementing her income she spent it on furniture, holidays and a brand new car.

How can anyone defend that?
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Still missing the point :shake:
 
Andy said:
By working for money, sounds like she hasn't had a working day in her life.
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:lol: probably not :D care to quote your source of information :thinking:
 
Splog said:
Read the posts... :bang: POINT IS SOME JOBSWORTH DECIDES THE RULES ... The state decides the rules. Care to answer the question "If someone has no money? then how do they live?"
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Who else decides the rules? Santa Claus?

If you want to live, you get a job. If you can't get a job you go on benefits. If you win £50k and you have no job, you use it to sustain you while you look for employment.

Is that simple enough for you? I don't know if I can make it anymore simple without making myself look simple.
 
She's clearly a typical lower class person I guess, knowing that the Government will give in and give her money in the end. They're not going to let her die. Whether that should be the case or not is contoversially debatable of course.
 
Wigster said:
She's clearly a typical lower class person I guess, knowing that the Government will give in and give her money in the end. They're not going to let her die. Whether that should be the case or not is contoversially debatable of course.
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Lower class? :cuckoo: Why?
 
Andy said:
Well the fact she was claiming for benefits and playing bingo says a lot. :D
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Totally. £20 to play... that's a weeks worth of food shopping for me. If I won £50K I'd be thinking to myself, "That's 2500 weeks worth of food shopping taken care off!" and not "Sweet! I can get a car and when my money runs out I'll just sit on the door step and look at it because there ain't no way I'll be able to afford the petrol money for it once I spend the rest of the cash on holidays and presents. Oh! I'll give my mate 50% of the winnings too, because they loaned me the £20 in the first place."
 
Splog said:
Such as?
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No offense, but you've contributed pretty much nothing to this thread other than asking questions made up of 2 or 3 words. It's starting to get frustrating now. How about you defend your opinion and we'll counter it? That's how it usually works.
 
ok, one more post on the subject then im off to sleep, I got work tomorrow, (something that bingo playing Cheryl McCann does not know about :p)

Because of the children she gets money from that, according to the sun she gets £40 for shopping, after the bills. £40 can get you a hell of a lot. Tesco do bake beans for 9p :D Bread you can get for about 40p. So 2 cans of bake beans on toast costs 58p. Coke costs 19p, that's your drink sorted :D

See easy, maybe I should make her a shopping list :lol:

Anyway, smoke me a kipper i'll be back for breakfast :D
 
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KayJay said:
No offense, but you've contributed pretty much nothing to this thread other than asking questions made up of 2 or 3 words. It's starting to get frustrating now. How about you defend your opinion and we'll counter it? That's how it usually works.
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:lol: Still not bothered to read the thread then :lol: The question is simple! try looking at the first post :shrug: .... I haven't expressed an opinion! .. Just a topic to discuss .... :bonk:

Where does 2 or 3 words come from :cuckoo:
 
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Andy said:
ok, one more post on the subject then im off to sleep, I got work tomorrow, (something that bingo playing Cheryl McCann does not know about :p)

Because of the children she gets money from that, according to the sun she gets £40 for shopping, after the bills. £40 can get you a hell of a lot. Tesco do bake beans for 9p :D Bread you can get for about 40p. So 2 cans of bake beans on toast costs 58p. Coke costs 19p, that's your drink sorted :D

See easy, maybe I should make her a shopping list :lol:

Anyway, smoke me a kipper i'll be back for breakfast :D
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:lol: Ace rimmer would have at least understood the point and saved the good lady .... Do the red dwarfe shuffle .... Be smart, Be smart! :lol:
 
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