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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
The explanation as to why DLA isn't taxable and is designed not to affect other benefits was an outline of Parliaments view from the date of the inception of these benefits up until the present day.
Unlike means tested benefits, we have all paid for contribution based benefits in case we fall on hard times through our National Insurance contributions.
It's akin to compulsorily being made to insure your house, it being burgled and the insurance company refusing to pay out because they've changed the goalposts. They then only offer to help you if you can prove that you're too poor to get things replaced!
Contribution based benefits cost the taxpayer nothing, they are paid for out of the National Insurance fund.
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I didn't argue that point ,I argued the point you made about benefits providing a standard of level equal to a person not being disabled
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Contribution based benefits cost the taxpayer nothing, they are paid for out of the National Insurance fund.
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nonsense ,that cannot possibly be the case given the demands on NI contributions (on paper) such as the NHS ,pensions, redundancy and other benefits
I think the NHS would swallow the entirety of NI contributions collected on it's own as would pensions .