Are you on benefits?

[Me. I Am Salman]

Well?

[Niamh.]

No

[Firewire]

no i'm 16

[Mystic Mock]

No, I don't want to work but I will feel better earning the money than it just being awarded to me because im to lazy to get a job.

[Smithy]

no

[Ramsay]

yeaaah im a waster

[Maia]

Nope

[Locke.]

Was for a few weeks a couple of months ago, but not now

[Vicky.]

No, I don't want to work but I will feel better earning the money than it just being awarded to me because im to lazy to get a job.

Is this really how you see people on benefits?

Its actually quite a small minority that are scroungers. Pisses me off that people have this attitude actually because I was on benefits myself at one point and everyone looked down on me too...even though I was doing everything I ****ing could to get better so I could get a job :/

[Shaun]

Does a student loan count? :spin2:

[Samuel.]

Was for a few months last year (or was it the year before? Can't even remember at this point). Most depressing thing ever walking in the Job Centre every week.

[Niall]

Nope.

[Mystic Mock]

Is this really how you see people on benefits?

Its actually quite a small minority that are scroungers. Pisses me off that people have this attitude actually because I was on benefits myself at one point and everyone looked down on me too...even though I was doing everything I ****ing could to get better so I could get a job :/

Not everyone but alot of them are.

[Shaun]

You'd think there was a record high unemployment rate or something.

[King Gizzard]

Most depressing thing ever walking in the Job Centre every week.

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[Marc]

I'd happily take benefits if they helped me out. But I'm not currently on benefits, but a student loan is kinda one lol

[GiRTh]

Does the OP realise that state pensioners are also on benefits? Mums who get tax credits are also on benefits.

That word gets banded about as if its some kind of disease.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Does the OP realise that state pensioners are also on benefits? Mums who get tax credits are also on benefits.

That word gets banded about as if its some kind of disease.

I doubt pensioners would be on TiBB
except for that one person.. :whistle:

[waterhog]

i am on friends with benefits - currently 87 laddies on the go -

[Doogle]

i am on friends with benefits - currently 87 laddies on the go -

Not sure if typo or gay :suspect:

[Smithy]

:joker:

[michael21]

nope

no i'm 16

you should i think get child benefit unless your a cat :suspect:

Does a student loan count? :spin2:

do you have to pay it back if the answers yes then no it don't count if the answers no then it does count :idc:

[Me. I Am Salman]

Why thank you Michael for clarifying that for me ;D

[michael21]

Why thank you Michael for clarifying that for me ;D

no worry by the way you did not say if you were on benefits :suspect:

[Harry!]

Nope.

[Marc]

This is all touching close to my dissertation makes me wanna throw up remembering it

[Me. I Am Salman]

no worry by the way you did not say if you were on benefits :suspect:

I don't even have a proper bank account :/

[Kizzy]

This is all touching close to my dissertation makes me wanna throw up remembering it

Yes all those council house benefit claimants... Cheers T. Dan Smith....

[Jarrod]

I can understand that your just being chatty. But isn't this a personal subject?

[Kizzy]

Not everyone but alot of them are.

http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/why-dont-we-want-to-pay-unemployment-benefits-pt-2/

[Me. I Am Salman]

I can understand that your just being chatty. But isn't this a personal subject?

That's why the poll is private :thumbs:

[Mystic Mock]

http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/why-dont-we-want-to-pay-unemployment-benefits-pt-2/

Fair enough on that, but you do know I only said alot of them are and not that the majority of them are?:joker:

Anyway thank you for the information Kizzy, it does make you realise how misleading the media really is.

[joeysteele]

No, I don't want to work but I will feel better earning the money than it just being awarded to me because im to lazy to get a job.

Commendable what you say jf, however the number of real scroungers is a minority indeed of those on benefits, also as to jobs, there are something like at best half a million vacancies in the Country and 2.6 million+ unemployed at present.

It doesn't take a genius to work out that you cannot employ 2.6 million people in only half a million jobs available.So for quite a long while in the foreseeable future millions of people will still need to be on benefits by 'no' fault of their own.

[Redway]

Think you're asking a bit of a personal question there, Salman, although your poll's private, which is good.

[Boothy]

Got a student loan, so sort of.

[Kizzy]

How is a student loan that you repay like a state benefit?

[michael21]

How is a student loan that you repay like a state benefit?

because there spend it all on drink