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govt considering paying the unemployed with spending cards to stop them spending their benefit on booze and ****. nice one
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govt considering paying the unemployed with spending cards to stop them spending their benefit on booze and ****. nice one
yeah pretend to give em bread but give em white lightning cider, then charge em moreGood idea, but can't help feeling that some of the more unscrupulous shop keepers will find a way to cash in these cards in exchange for **** and booze. On another forum thread, scrappies down your way are already offering to cash in the cheques they pay you for your scrap in return for a 3% surcharge!
A few revisions to your cunning master plan...
I would draw a line between someone who has paid into the system for decades and then gets made redundant, and someone who has never paid in, or only paid in very little.
If someone has been paying tax and national insurance for years, then they should get their benefits in cash. They paid premiums in cash, so thats only fair. There should be a defined limit to this (not forever) but proportionate to the time that the claimant had paid in.
People who never paid in, or who overstay their time on cash benefits should go on the card system.
However, I wouldn't trust the government to pass the saving back to the taxpayers or to spend it wisely. I would prefer to see any savings made on working-age benefits automatically transferred to pensioners who have worked and paid in all their lives. I think pensioners get a rubbish deal compared to what they have paid in.
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