Benefits Vs Employment

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I had a drink in the local pub with a couple of other self-employed workers last night (03/08/22). We talked about many things, not least the problems of the pandemic lockdowns and little or no government support for certain types of self-employed companies, including ours!

We then moved on to discuss the current crisis’ – energy and cost-of-living (CoL). Both of which are decimating the two companies my friends work hard at trying to keep trading.

Then they complained about some of their staff wanting pay rises to cope with their own CoL problems, something that is impossible to do due to cashflow issues and rising costs of their own.

As a consequence some of their employees have left arguing that they would be better of on state benefits rather than having to put up with a low income that’s just above the minimum wage for their particular age groups.

Inevitably we then moved onto how the myriad of benefits people are now “entitled” to is not only undermining bosses of small businesses, but also workers as a whole.

Obviously if you’re earning £50k+ a year you’re probably not all that bothered about what other people earn or receive in benefits. But my two friends don’t earn that much and despite working all hours they can’t always afford to pay themselves a salary and often have to plough that allocated money into paying business bills.

When they heard the news about more government support for those people on means-tested benefits to help with the cost-of-living crisis (worth around £650) with top-ups available for certain other groups, it just made them even more pissed off.

It does seem that living on benefits is the way to go because in times of crisis – Covid, energy, CoL – you’ll more often than not receive a shedload of tax-free money. Whereas if you work but earn a lowish taxable salary or you’re self-employed and struggling, you’re likely to get sweet fuck all again!

I don’t know how many state benefits there are available these days, but in the link below are a few (I don’t include state pensions because they’re definitely not a benefit, but have been earned through a lifetime of paying Income Tax and NI contributions)

Some benefits are means-tested, some are taxable. Quite often if you work and earn a taxable wage that is just outside of any of those entitlements then you’re very much on your own. And that includes the extra Cost of Living handouts (of around £650+), which again is going to those people on benefits. However, those same people who do work and not entitled to anything will be expected to pay for it all through higher taxes and NI contributions sooner or later.

And on the subject of pensions – again if you take out pensions early in your working life because you want to think about a comfortable retirement, you often end up being means-tested come your retirement and your pensions are taxed yet again. Whereas there are many cunts out there (and I know a few) who have never worked but still end up with plenty of benefits when they reach “retirement” age, almost to the point of receiving more money than those silly workers who spent 30-40 years paying into various pensions and taxes and came out worse off!

And more often than not you’ll get the charity groups (you know, those with CEOs and board members earning 6 figure salaries) moaning on MSM and social media that the government isn’t doing enough for the poor and should therefore give all those on benefits extra cash, courtesy of the Taxpayer.

As a consequence, my two friends have said they’ll give it a few more months and if things don’t improve they’ll jack it all in and live on benefits instead (although obviously because they have worked and may have savings they may not be entitled to quite so much compared to some cunt who has never worked but has 8 kids!)

I know I’m making quite a few generalisation here, especially with regards benefit allocation (those genuinely in need due to poor health for example). But the fact is we do seem to be living in a society where living on benefits is now regarded as an essential entitlement (lifestyle choice?) and nothing to be ashamed of, just so long as the Taxpayer doesn’t complain and just keeps on paying more and more taxes to pay for it all.

https://www.gov.uk/income-tax/taxfree-and-taxable-state-benefits

https://enzaferreri.blogspot.com/2014/12/uk-benefits-pay-much-more-than-job.html
(Extra link provided by our resident sociologist, Night Admin – NA.)

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123 thoughts on “Benefits Vs Employment”

  3. The old dear met the Jellyfish and Truss on the same day and thought…….that’s it……..time to check out…..there’s no fucking hope!

  4. It will be like North Korea for the next three months. I had nothing against The Queen but I’m not a Royalist, what grinds my gears us “The whole country will be shocked”. Telling us again how we must think and feel. She was 96, not 26. Cue to faux grief from all the usual suspects in media, sport and TV.

  5. This is definitely a stitch up. Some Shipman type cunt has done the dirty. All too convenient for my liking.

  6. Meagain folding up her perfectly manicured fingers in glee at the news. Attention will be on the mongrel duchess and half-blood prince soon enough and Qween Sparkle loves nothing more than a bit of attention. Especially as she doesn’t even have to get fucked up the pooter by Harvey Weinstein or some other inbred Hollywood ghoul for it anymre.

    It wouldn’t surprise me if this demi-coon was involved in some way. She probably left a roller skate on the stairs or something. The absolute cunt.

    • On the contrary! The vile, narcissistic little slut will be consumed with jealousy and rage over this. For the next 10 days the spotlight will be extremely bright over HM. I’ll wager a steak dinner that the little cunt is even now, planning to release something to the press, probably through ‘a friend’ before the funeral is done. You wait and see!

  7. Actually Miserable shouldn’t get credit for this one. He listed “The Queen” in his post for the last Dead Pool. He wasn’t specific. How do we know he wasn’t referring to RuPaul?
    Sorry Mis.
    Judges?

  8. How dare you twart democracy you terrible colonial!

    Im the rightful choice having also laid her husband Phil the Greek to rest.

    I’m ISACs official royal mortician.

    King Charles next, chronic greenfly.

    • One can only hope that the grief will carry him off.
      I’m not impressed by someone who talks to impassians.

      (Please stay on topic. There’s now a Queen thread available now – Day Admin)

  9. Even though I feel bad about being on benifits it has stopped me going under, mind you it wasnt easy to get, I will list my problems for those interested, type 1 diabetes, cancer, chronic pancreatitis, inoperable hiatus hernia given me barretts oesophagus, thyroid problems, high blood pressure and inability to stop myself falling over which was main reason for quitting work as was to dangerous being under horses ,been flat on me back underneath a fecking about nag is no fun.
    I’ve left the more boring problems off. It took 2 years to get signed up for the sick as I was told I was ok to work in an office even though I’m on 25 pills a day that are taken across 24 hours, an office for fucks sake I would be inside for murder now if they had insisted, self employed and worked outside for my whole life how that makes me an ideal candidate for office work I dont know. It’s not simple to get sickness benifits.

    • Your situation is a classic case of.where benefits should be targeted ie people who have contributed and are in dire need through no fault of their own.

      Not career layabouts.

      I have zero problem with my taxes going your way.

    • ‘Well, apart from all that you appear to be coping ok. I’ll put you on the Return to Work program starting next week! How’s that work for you?” ATOS Dr

  10. There’s a fat cunt comes in my local. When he’s not there, he’s in the bookies, or the café.
    I once asked him what he did for a living. “ I like photography and computers”. I never spoke to the cunt again, along with most of the folks in my local, although I’m definitely going to tell him that he should thank everyone for buying his drinks EVERY DAY. The cunt.

    • I knew a jobless cunt in his early 40s who, within days of having known him, said ‘some people just aren’t suited to work’.
      He claimed incapacity benefit/income support for being depressed. Every six months he would shit himself because the Work Capability Assessment might not find him ill enough and he would, in his own words, ‘act spazzy’.
      He fell short on the points needed once and started begging for money on Facebook and threatening to kill himself. One of his close friends gave him £200 for fuel and food, and he spent it on plastic spaceship models. The previous christmas I offered him 330 towards food for Christmas for him and his girlfriend, who had ‘social anxiety’. he bought a couple of ready meals, thinking he would have the rest to blow on his childish hobbies.
      Sadly for him it was only an offer and I told him it was for food and to spend it at a food shop or not at all. He refused the £30 after he’d bought the ready meals, the stupid cunt.

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