couple want benefits after spending £100,000 - Page 3

garinda · 08-04-2008, 17:44

'They were turned down because they could not account for £29,580 withdrawn from cash machines and £12,000 moved to a new account.'

Scratchcard spongers | Waste £100k | Still want benefits | The Sun |HomePage|News

The benefit they are attempting to claim is means tested, and therefore they shouldn't receive a penny until they can prove where the money has gone.

Thanks to the Sun, for the full, and sorry, tale.

flashy · 08-04-2008, 17:49

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Originally Posted by Neil

I apologise for being simple but why do you need to buy a house before you can get a job?

you dont you tool

i was merely saying that as an example, if i where in that situation thats what i would do rather then beg to go back on benefits

shillelagh · 11-04-2008, 14:26

£5million lotto winner goes from millionaire to the dole in just three years | the Daily Mail

This bloke is even worse than them - he won £5.1 MILLION and spent/lost it all.

Less · 11-04-2008, 15:28

As usual I'm confused, where in the lottery rules does it state win yourself a pension?

I would hope that if I had such a windfall I would manage it better than this couple, but isn't the whole idea about winning something like this so that you can treat yourself to things you couldn't afford before?

If the lottery is no longer giving prize money, (which I always thought was tax free), but now expecting everyone that wins to use the money as a 'rainy day fund', then whoever started it is misrepresenting themselves to the people that choose to buy tickets.

pipinfort · 11-04-2008, 15:30

NO NO NO NO NO NO What a waste..........

BERNADETTE · 11-04-2008, 15:33

Can anybody get their head round that? He would have to spend £4,600 a day to get through so much.

Less · 11-04-2008, 15:43

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Can anybody get their head round that? He would have to spend £4,600 a day to get through so much.

It must have kept a great many people in employment, Landlords, Bookies, Horse owners, Jockeys, Ladies of the night and on, and on and on............

pipinfort · 11-04-2008, 15:50

Tales like this make my blood boil, what total waste, they are privileged to have had such an amount whilst the rest of us just get by....grrrrrrr

BERNADETTE · 11-04-2008, 15:53

No point letting it get to you he won the money fair and square. He would still be able to claim disability and mobility if he had been careful with the win.

garinda · 11-04-2008, 18:21

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Originally Posted by Less

isn't the whole idea about winning something like this so that you can treat yourself to things you couldn't afford before?

It is, as long as people don't still expect to get any means tested benefit they were awarded previously, while they were splashing their new cash.

Loz · 12-04-2008, 09:41

No they shouldn't be allowed benefits.
They were so lucky to win that money and to be in a comfortable position that many of us will never know.
If they couldn't manage the money responsibly that is their fault.

Neil · 12-04-2008, 10:40

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Originally Posted by Loz

No they shouldn't be allowed benefits.
They were so lucky to win that money and to be in a comfortable position that many of us will never know.
If they couldn't manage the money responsibly that is their fault.

Out of interest how long do you think £100,000 would last to live on?

You would struggle to buy a decent house in a nice area for that.

garinda · 12-04-2008, 10:51

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Originally Posted by Neil

Out of interest how long do you think £100,000 would last to live on?

You would struggle to buy a decent house in a nice area for that.

According to the law regarding benefits, the minimum a person can live on is £80.15 per week. So in answer to your question, it would last a few days short of twenty four years.

Neil · 12-04-2008, 11:43

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Originally Posted by garinda

According to the law regarding benefits, the minimum a person can live on is £80.15 per week. So in answer to your question, it would last a few days short of twenty four years.

There is a big difference on what the minimum you can live on and what you would like to live on.

garinda · 12-04-2008, 11:43

Perhaps I'm being particularly dim here, but to me it is very clear cut.

For most means tested benefits the amount you're allowed to have in savings is up to£16,000.

If you have a windfall, from wherever, and don't inform the relevant bodies, who then adjust the amount of benefit claimed, then it is treated as fraud.