Universial Credit

Lemongrove perhaps durhamjens family go to foodbanks and are on benefits and splash out on Christmas just saying.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/no-one-should-take-last-11783810

Monica we do what we want/need to depending on circumstances.I'd love my girl to be fit and healthy ,to be able to carry on with the business she started a few years ago and to live a full life.Sadly she cant.If buying clothes.paying bills etc for her makes life even a slight bit easier I'll do all I can .AAnd there is the whole point of the thread..the woman in teh OP is also ill ....maybe SHE is overcompensating to children who have to deal with a very sick parent...and its not easy for them as I can confirm.I watch my GC worry their mum wont be around for long..IF I can put a smile on their faces now and again then NOBODY has the right to try to stop me ...or the por women whose benefits are being discussed on this post

dj read my post I didn't say for Christmas, I said over a very short period of time. My definition of very short period of time in this context would be several months

NOT a consol ,a GAME for his consol and yes its all for christmas .I buy a lot of the clothes for the GC,my mother did it for us ...so we just carried it forward.My daughter is ill...and I'd prefer she spends her money trying to fund alternative treatments that might help her condition .The phone money will go towards his bill,again to save my daughter stress ,she can contact him easily and not worry

Spread the wealth, that's what I say. And if some goes the grandchildrens way, so much the better. I love spending on mine.

She didn't say for Christmas; she said recently. Could have been over a few months.

paddyann I think we live in different worlds, I cannot imagine a situation where I would buy my DGS a track suit, 2 T shirts, shoes, a games consol and give him money for a phone in a very short period of time. I am assuming they are not all Christmas presents. Two of them, perhaps, but not all 5.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/benefit-cuts-force-incontinent-cancer-14057956

Wouldn't you think that at least they would 'ensure' that nothing went wrong in Frank Field's constituency?

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/rich-selfish-higher-incomes-happiness-self-centred-emotion-american-psychological-association-a8116846.html

I am!
Cor blimey, do have the last word on this though if you like.

Do explain, because it looks to me as if you are talking about the same woman.

Do you ever understand a post?
I mean ever !

I just can’t be bothered to explain every little thing to you.

"Probably the woman on tv was bragging in a stupid way, but it does make those working annoyed, with good reason.
Of course we don’t think everybody living on benefits is like this, but it does no good to anyone to think somebody must be milking the system."

You do a very good line in conflation if that's not what you meant. Two ideas juxtaposed and we are not supposed to think both sentences are about the same woman?

durham do you ever read posts properly before you rush to comment?
I did not say that she was milking the system.
A decent Christmas? £3,000 are you serious?!
It is a very personal question to ask GNers ‘ how many of you will be getting your food from a foodbank’ and a silly one as well.You can ask anything you like and often do, but nobody has to answer you.
Why even mention computers????

Exactly, lemon. You have no idea that she is milking the system, but she's not allowed to save for a decent Christmas for her children.
All heart as usual.
Of course I have the right to ask people if they will be using a foodbank this Christmas. I can ask what I want. It's not insulting.
Why do you want it hidden?
Or do you think that people using foodbanks shouldn't have computers, either?
Many people using foodbanks are in work, and in areas changing over to universal credit.

No, it is saying why waste so much money at Christmas.
You can give your children a lovely time on a fraction of that.
I would say why would anybody spend so much on children, save that money for something you really need in the future.
The other point is the one that Annie made, and I mentioned above.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-heidi-allen-break-down-destitution-universal-credit-frank-field-parliament-a8093906.html

Nothing to do with your family, lemon. That's just sour grapes.

Have your working family been on holiday this year?

By the way, has anybody watched the programme?
I haven't, so don't know what was really said, but it really is saying what right have they to spend so much on their kids?

‘Knowing next Christmas might be worse’ ....why would it?

Will you be going to a food bank durhamjen? Why ask the posters on GN?

Probably the woman on tv was bragging in a stupid way, but it does make those working annoyed, with good reason.
Of course we don’t think everybody living on benefits is like this, but it does no good to anyone to think somebody must be milking the system.

Maybe they just wanted to save and spend on their children while they could, knowing that next Christmas might be worse?

I feel sorry for those in the North East and other areas who are now penniless because their universal benefit roll-out wasn't changed. How many of you will be getting your food from a foodbank for Christmas?

None of my working family with children could afford to save so much for Christmas .......nothing like it!
Nothing to do with Scrooge.

Did anyone watch Scrooge last night?
This made me think we've gone back to those times.
Anyone who can save £3000 for Christmas is obviously getting too much benefit.

“What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough. Come then, returned the nephew gaily. What right have you to be morose? You're rich enough.”

I agree completely Monica but this woman must be pretty stupid to go on tv and more or less tell the world how they have so much cash sloshing around ( from public money)
That they can afford to live like this!

we're ALL different Monica and what she spends is up to her ,for all you know she might be buying them clothes as part of their christmas and thay aren't cheap ,I know I bought my GS a track suit and a couple of t shirts and shoes recently ,not much change out of £200 add on a game for his consul and some money for his phone and thats the £300 gone ,hes a teen who takes size 11 shoes so no childrens vat free stuff for him