Using your benefit money for gambling
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How is this allowed?
On benefits, but visiting a gambling establishment and spending said benefits multiple times a week.
Then moaning to your other gambling benefit plonkers that you don't get enough money.
How on earth can someone be on benefits and be allowed to spunk it all away gambling?
If that isn't bad enough, the novelty crutches that are sometimes forgotten make it even better.
It's crazy!
Then you have the people who are massively overweight, puffing on an inhaler but next minute are outside smoking. They moan about money but always seem to have enough to gamble and buy cigarettes. One even had a holiday to Spain last month.
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king hell. I must be doing something wrong. 
On benefits, but visiting a gambling establishment and spending said benefits multiple times a week.
Then moaning to your other gambling benefit plonkers that you don't get enough money.
How on earth can someone be on benefits and be allowed to spunk it all away gambling?
If that isn't bad enough, the novelty crutches that are sometimes forgotten make it even better.
It's crazy!
Then you have the people who are massively overweight, puffing on an inhaler but next minute are outside smoking. They moan about money but always seem to have enough to gamble and buy cigarettes. One even had a holiday to Spain last month.
f
king hell. I must be doing something wrong. 
That’s life. Every gambling establishment, every low cost food / beer place, always full of dole scum. The thing that makes me giggle, is when they start on about “getting paid” or “their money” then use it for a week in Benidorm or something. Don’t even get me started on how these turds get first dibs on any ‘social housing’ ( which is usually a new development, which is on general sale too) the developers won’t tell you which places the scumbags have got either, so you risk buying a place, next to something that wouldn’t look out of place being scraped off your Loake brogues 
Edited by GOATever on Friday 29th November 11:08
"How is this allowed?"
Probably because once the cash is in your bank account, it's yours to use as you please. 'Normal' people who truly need the help probably prioritise it on paying bills and buying food, etc. But in terms of spending benefit money, it's no different to spending wages, or inheritance, or a lottery win. And you wouldn't accept anyone telling you how to spend your hard-earned. Why should someone on benefits be beholden to you for permission to spend their money on one thing over another? I'm not defending gambling with benefit money, by the way, but it gets spent on all sorts, drink, drugs, tobacco, KFC, taxi fares, gig tickets, etc. None of which are life's essentials. In short, once you've paid your tax/NI you no longer have control over where it goes, and once the government pays it as benefits into a recipient's account, it's out of their control. You might not like it, but you'll have to lump it, I'm afraid...
Probably because once the cash is in your bank account, it's yours to use as you please. 'Normal' people who truly need the help probably prioritise it on paying bills and buying food, etc. But in terms of spending benefit money, it's no different to spending wages, or inheritance, or a lottery win. And you wouldn't accept anyone telling you how to spend your hard-earned. Why should someone on benefits be beholden to you for permission to spend their money on one thing over another? I'm not defending gambling with benefit money, by the way, but it gets spent on all sorts, drink, drugs, tobacco, KFC, taxi fares, gig tickets, etc. None of which are life's essentials. In short, once you've paid your tax/NI you no longer have control over where it goes, and once the government pays it as benefits into a recipient's account, it's out of their control. You might not like it, but you'll have to lump it, I'm afraid...
funkyrobot said:
How is this allowed?
On benefits, but visiting a gambling establishment and spending said benefits multiple times a week.
Then moaning to your other gambling benefit plonkers that you don't get enough money.
How on earth can someone be on benefits and be allowed to spunk it all away gambling?
If that isn't bad enough, the novelty crutches that are sometimes forgotten make it even better.
It's crazy!
Then you have the people who are massively overweight, puffing on an inhaler but next minute are outside smoking. They moan about money but always seem to have enough to gamble and buy cigarettes. One even had a holiday to Spain last month.
fking hell. I must be doing something wrong.
You see the effects, but are clearly struggling to decipher the causes. If I were you, rather than getting angry, I'd take an hour or two and think about why people gamble, smoke and excessively eat cheap and nutritionally bankrupt food. On benefits, but visiting a gambling establishment and spending said benefits multiple times a week.
Then moaning to your other gambling benefit plonkers that you don't get enough money.
How on earth can someone be on benefits and be allowed to spunk it all away gambling?
If that isn't bad enough, the novelty crutches that are sometimes forgotten make it even better.
It's crazy!
Then you have the people who are massively overweight, puffing on an inhaler but next minute are outside smoking. They moan about money but always seem to have enough to gamble and buy cigarettes. One even had a holiday to Spain last month.
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king hell. I must be doing something wrong. Presumably this money then goes straight into the U.K. economy, much better than them saving it or hiding it in offshore accounts. They should be given loads more tbh. They’re helping the country more than you selfish lot spending your money in the Maldives or on watches from Switzerland or buying boats in Monaco.
What if they win when they gamble? They’re going buy, more booze and fags and help revitalise the economy even more than they are now.
What if they win when they gamble? They’re going buy, more booze and fags and help revitalise the economy even more than they are now.
Caught a few minutes of one of those Channel 5 poverty porn shows a few months back, one charming man got a lump sum backdated, spunked the lot in the bookies, which was at least a few hundred in a few minutes, then the next scene was him walking out of a food bank with a few full shopping bags because he had no money for food.
Of course it was the governments fault for giving him so much money all at once, never thought to be his own responsibility, these are the types of people and the mentality that is out there that alot of us just can't get our heads around how some people actually live like this.
Of course it was the governments fault for giving him so much money all at once, never thought to be his own responsibility, these are the types of people and the mentality that is out there that alot of us just can't get our heads around how some people actually live like this.
GOATever said:
That’s life. Every gambling establishment, every low cost food / beer place, always full of dole scum. The thing that makes me giggle, is when they start on about “getting paid” or “their money” then use it for a week in Benidorm or something. Don’t even get me started on how these turds get first dibs on any ‘social housing’ ( which is usually a new development, which is on general sale too) the developers won’t tell you which places the scumbags have got either, so you risk buying a place, next to something that wouldn’t look out of place being scraped off your Loake brogues
I've just emailed Loake and suggested they use your post in their marketing material. They can then join Stone Island as a brand of choice for the truly enlightened.It is a shame, I ought to feel sorry for these people, but I am sure somewhere we have all been temped by the easy win, but 90% of us move on.
I guess some people are simple unable to say no, are they ill? No, they are just weak willed, and invariably not well raised so they do not feel they are doing anything wrong.
They know they are, but somehow can not pull back from the precipice like the rest of us do.
Darwin, survival of the fittest, imagine if you removed the benefits!!
I guess some people are simple unable to say no, are they ill? No, they are just weak willed, and invariably not well raised so they do not feel they are doing anything wrong.
They know they are, but somehow can not pull back from the precipice like the rest of us do.
Darwin, survival of the fittest, imagine if you removed the benefits!!
Few months ago at customs at Orland Airport I was embarrassed to be English as Husband, Wife and their over weight daughter, covered in tattoos were all pushed to the front of the queue in wheelchairs waving their dole poles.
Total chavs I suspect they were going to Disney on their benefits and had realised that being "disabled" because you are grossly overweight entitled you to get to the front of the queue for everything and get more benefits.
But going back to the OP, you can't control what they spend "their" money on as that is against their human rights. Instead of the rent going direct to the landlord it is a better idea to give it to the benefit claimant and let them give it to the landlord. After all, what could go wrong?
Total chavs I suspect they were going to Disney on their benefits and had realised that being "disabled" because you are grossly overweight entitled you to get to the front of the queue for everything and get more benefits.
But going back to the OP, you can't control what they spend "their" money on as that is against their human rights. Instead of the rent going direct to the landlord it is a better idea to give it to the benefit claimant and let them give it to the landlord. After all, what could go wrong?
Joey Deacon said:
Instead of the rent going direct to the landlord it is a better idea to give it to the benefit claimant and let them give it to the landlord. After all, what could go wrong?
This was pure genius, from the idiot politicians that brought it in. Mind you, it keeps high court bailiffs, house clearance companies, and refurbers in business.Universal Credit was designed to treat benefit claimants like normal working people paying them at the end of the month but it quickly became apparent that they spunked all the UC payment in a matter of days on gambling, frivolous items and drugs and left nothing remaining for the rent.
Joey Deacon said:
Few months ago at customs at Orland Airport I was embarrassed to be English as Husband, Wife and their over weight daughter, covered in tattoos were all pushed to the front of the queue in wheelchairs waving their dole poles.
I saw similar at Spain with an obese family and they got sent to the back of the queue by the checking staff after they walked to the priority boarding queue, I think when people are 100% funded by benefits then they should get their passports revoked tbh.GOATever said:
Joey Deacon said:
Instead of the rent going direct to the landlord it is a better idea to give it to the benefit claimant and let them give it to the landlord. After all, what could go wrong?
This was pure genius, from the idiot politicians that brought it in. Mind you, it keeps high court bailiffs, house clearance companies, and refurbers in business.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff