From: "True Blue" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Are we benefit scroungers?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:31:21 +0100


"Mike"  wrote in message 
news:6k3lh2daia3vso290er86a1b0vpbigismk@4ax.com...
> Probably get slated for this but I'll ask anyway.
>
> My wife got pretty badly smashed up in a road traffic accident on her way 
> to
> work a few months ago and is now in a wheelchair (for a few months yet). 
> She
> does get sick pay for 6 months. I have to work away from home much of the 
> time
> and we can't afford to have me stay home. My lad (20) has given up his job 
> to
> look after her pretty much full time. (She cannot walk at all just now). 
> He
> didn't have much of a job but it did give him some income. He tried to see 
> if
> there was anything he could claim from social services. Apparently he 
> isn't
> eligible for anything at all! They said if she (his mum) was on benefit - 
> then
> he would be entitled to carers allowance.  Now I know she is getting sick 
> pay
> just now - but it doesn't seem fare to me that he can't get some financial 
> help
> in these circumstances. Anyone know if there is something/anything he can 
> claim?
> After all, he is claiming for help for himself - not for her - yet they 
> base his
> claim on her situation! If we said we couldn't cope she'd have to be 
> packed off
> to some rehab. place and huge cost to the taxpayer.
>
> We are not spongers and have always paid our way - this is the first time 
> we've
> ever  tried to claim anything. Of course we'll make sure he get some 
> money - but
> when I see (apparently) all kinds of, shall we say grants paid to 
> foreigners -
> it grates when I see he is not eligible for 1p in his own country from his 
> own
> social services - which I have paid into for 40 years.


No Mike, you're not benefit scroungers. Your wife had a car accident and 
your son should look after her as you're away earning. That's what benefits 
are for in my opinion and I'm somewhere to the right of Norman Tebbit. My 
next door neighbour hasn't worked for five years as he can hardly walk with 
arthritis. His house has a load of gadgets in it to facilitate him opening 
doors and putting the kettle on etc...All paid for by the State and rightly 
too, we are a caring society and that's what benefits are for - genuine 
cases of need. Benefits are not for people who would rather be on them than 
work or people from other countries who come here solely to claim them. And 
contrary to the beliefs of some of the Leftists on this NG, they are legion.