by myself, am in reciept of benefits and I totally hate it ! But I am in a really bad situation Bette girl, and I dont know how much longer I can take trying to trapse and crawl my way out the the system....
The thing is, if I give up benefits I am on I would have to get a job that pays at least £25 an hour to be able to afford my rent, council tax and utilty bills etc and continue to stay where I am living, which is in a beautiful place.
My other option in this area is to give up benefits and go and live on a run down drug & crime riddled council estate, for the sake of pocketing an extra £50 a week.
The lady in the Job Centre told me not to bother to look for work and stay where I am otherwise I would loose out big time, so thats how great it is living in Britain at the moment, nothing makes sense and sometimes you feel like your being held back on purpose, if that makes any sense?
Lets look at this carefully - she is in reciept of benefits, and by the looks of it housing benefit, council tax benefits also.
Yet she is willing and able to work, according to her own admission, as she states " if I give up benefits I am on I would have to get a job that pays at least £25 an hour to be able to afford my rent, council tax and utilty bills etc and continue to stay where I am living, which is in a beautiful place."
She even asked the jobcentre about working, but claims she was told to stay on benefits otherwise she would "loose out big time".
So, thats about a clear admission of benefit fraud surely as you can get. The jobcenter is allegdely defrauding the tax payer by giving out the wrong advice, and the lady is allegdely claiming despite being able to work but chosing not to(thats how the blog reads, if that is not the case, Im sure a quick investigation will sort it out)
Willing and able to work, but CHOOSING not to because she can live in a 'beautiful place' and would need to earn 25 pounds AN HOUR in order to be better off than being on benefits.
Incapacity benefit is for people who cant work, NOT PEOPLE WHO CHOSE NOT TO WORK.
Jobseekers is for people who are seeking work, not people who ARE CHOSING NOT TO WORK.
I have reported the blog post to the benefit fraud people, and will let them decide if they should investigate or not.
Im suprised a4e would publish such a thing, not only to us its someone basically admitting fraud in our eyes at least, but it will stigmatise benefit claimaints, as already many members of the public think claimaints are overpaid scroungers.
Hopefully the benefit fraud team will look into all parties involved, and if everyone is innocent, so be it - but if not - so be it again.
Because at the end of the day, life is tough on genuine claimaints and its made harder by any fraud.
[Edited as its not clear which benefit exactly she is on]