Right wing OAP criticising people on benefits for having flat screen TVs urged to try buying one using a cathode ray tube.

[Kev45]

A man, who says people on Universal Credit are paid too much in benefits because they all have flat-screen televisions, has been tasked with finding a shop that will sell him any other kind.


Derek Williams, 62, insisted that too much was being made of people struggling to get by on Universal Credit, and that if people cut back on luxuries like flat-screen TVs, they could easily make ends meet.

He told us, I am a sixty-two-year-old man, so obviously I think of flat-screen TVs that have been commonplace for almost twenty years as being ‘high-tech’. And high-tech products are not something people on benefits should be enjoying.

Why can’t they just get a nice old-fashioned TV, in a wooden cabinet, like I had in the early 80s. That would do them absolutely fine. No, I don’t care that the analogue broadcasts stopped in 2012, digital TV sounds like an unnecessary luxury to me.

And don’t get me started on phones. Just because someone claiming benefits has to be contactable for job interviews, and needs to use the web to apply for jobs and to access most government services and the like, doesn’t mean they need a high-tech mobile phone. And again, by high-tech, I mean anything produced after the Nokia 3310.

I just think that if you’re claiming benefits, then you should clothe yourself in a hessian sack and live in a ditch at the side of the road until such time as you become useful to society.

Is that really so controversial?

It’s the MPs I feel sorry for, imagine having to get by in London a £80k salary and barely £70k in living expenses. That’s the real crime here.

 

[Not_Fred_Honest]

About 10 years ago when people were allow to retire at 65, if you were over 60 and out of work, they let you go early. Its all changed now.... all of us have to carry on until we drop

Now the state pension is £221.20 a week and if you rent you need to claim housing benefit from the local council.

Will I get full Housing Benefit on State Pension?


Maximum Housing Benefit paid

However, these caps often don't apply to people above the State Pension age, meaning pensioners aren't limited as to how much Housing Benefit they could get. For example, the benefit cap within Greater London is £23,000 a year if you're in a couple or £15,410 if you're a single adult.

UC is about £400 per month and they will cover your rent too.

All of this is means tested.

Now personally I will get the state pension but I will lose it in tax on my private pension. Both state and private pensions are taxable income).

From my point of view, I've paid for a state pension since I was 18 that I will never receive. I was chatting to some friends about this over the summer, it fcked all off us off.

Now you'd think they would give you some help if you was out of work but none us would qualify for Universal Credit. We all have too much money saved.

If you have money, savings and investments between £6,000 and £16,000 your Universal Credit payments will be reduced. Your payments will be reduced by £4.35 for every £250 you have between £6,000 and £16,000. Another £4.35 is taken off for any remaining amount that is not a complete £250.

I hate to say it but for most people £6,000 is 3 months wages for low paid workers and 2 months for mid range.

Now lets say you're at work at vauxhall cars and about to be made redundant, you wont get a penny off UC for about 6 months. Redundance payments are income. UC would expect you to use that money until you find another job.

And this is the point I'm trying to make:

Working people pay tax and NI for a welfare system they cant access for a year if they lose there jobs.
People are paying for state pension they will never get.

And none us are allowed to be fck off at those people who sat on there ass and retried before 30 on state benefits !!!