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Originally Posted by Taf
HB can be paid to the tenant or the landlord... it's up to the tenant... which is why so many landlords are being stiffed payments month after month until they go through an expensive legal procedure to get the defaulting tenants out.
It's common practice amongst the Czech Roma hereabouts. I know because I have known then gleefully withholding rent to spend it on booze, sporty but clapped-out cars, and widescreen TVs. They have found a way to get free accomodation for extended periods... but landlords are spreading the word amongst themselves (only to have the race card thrown at them for refusing to rent to Czech Roma).
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agree entirely there's another mob does the same,they get, duck houses, wisteria bushes sorted,and lots of other goodies, and we can't get them out. they're called M.P.s, the Roma have nothing on them.
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Originally Posted by Angua
The current system is ridiculously skewed towards benefit dependency and having to claim for so many different things. As the whole system is so bureaucratic it makes for too many ways to abuse the system and too many ways for people to fall between the cracks and lose out.
I get most annoyed with those talking about "child poverty" who seem to think throwing money at the poor will actually do anything about this. There must be more effective and better ways of improving the lot of children directly, which ensures the help needed actually reaches the ones who need it. All that seems to have happened with it so far is creating families who are better off claiming than working.
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yes, sense at last, all we have to do is get people decent jobs with a decent wage, dead easy! as for throwing money at the poor, how come they are still poor, if they are getting all this cash.