posted on Jul, 22 2024 @ 11:12 AM
a reply to:
andy06shake
The crash of 2008 did for me financially Andy I was left with a old van , I lost the house , pension everything and went back to living week to week
and by 2012 my health gave out I went from £60 k + to being refused benefits etc because I was self employed and had been a company director , I was
paying more a week in tax than the staff in the job centre were earning .
I got a whole 12.50 a week then they deducted 3 for council tax = £9.50 a week lol out of that I had to pay £10 for my room and £10 for a garage
lol .
In 3 years of trying to get benefits I received a whole £280 .00 , I spent more than that on bus fares going there and they billed me full council
tax etc and are still after me , 3 years + of asking a doctor for a sick note and pain med's and getting nothing and a local job centre that had a
sanction rate of 97+ % it actually made the news about how we had the longest waiting times for a doctor in the country of 6+ weeks and one member of
the job centre made over a million in bonus payments because of all the people he sanctioned
.
I came across some nutters in the B& B that were on £ 1300+ a month and skint 2 days later , it sickens me to see these people get that kind of
money just for being a mad funkie and have never worked in their lives .
I was working since I was 5 ikyn doing 50 hrs a week at 12 and regularly putting in 80 to 100 hrs a week all my adult life , sometimes going 2 to 3
months without a day of and that was nothing to some guys I worked with who worked 9 months or more without a day off .
Then you get told sorry you are not entitled to anything because
yet arrive on a dingy and you get welcomed with open arms and get top dollar
because you might be depressed or something F ING sickens me pal .
Lucky I had to hit the ground running when I was a kid as it is only my wits that saved me and having 6 heart attacks that got me this house but I am
still not entitled to a bus pass or extra help for some reason been trying that since 2019 and still get told nothing wrong with me lol.
Copd , hernia , and dementia and I stopped counting after 6 heart attacks but I get by OK on the minimum and can afford a smoke and a dog but the way
things are headed with this WEF crap I am glad me and the mutt are both not long for this place