mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
27-02-2011, 09:13
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mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
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Hundreds of thousands of new and expectant mothers are given shopping coupons worth up to £322 a year, per child, in a bid to ensure that they feed their families healthily......Now a Government survey of more than 2,000 retailers, health professionals and recipients has found that more than one in five knew of occasions when shops had swapped the tokens for products outside the scheme.
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27-02-2011, 09:16
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
this used to happen with milk tokens -shops gave cigs etc instead of milk
not sure if milk tokens still exist these days .
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27-02-2011, 10:34
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
Then the shop keepers and mothers should be done for fraud. 
Instead of just getting rid of a scheme how about actually policing it properly first? 
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27-02-2011, 10:57
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
Obviously she thinks booze and cigs are more important than feeding her kids.
IMHO candidates for foster parents, who will treat them better.
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27-02-2011, 11:11
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
In other news the sun came up this morning, trying to look after every aspect of people's lives is stupid, and giving some people stuff for free and expecting them to use it appropriately doesn't always work.
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27-02-2011, 12:13
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
So .... we give money away, with no controls, and then seem surprised when its abused.
Wow .....
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27-02-2011, 12:17
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
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So .... we give money away, with no controls, and then seem surprised when its abused.
Wow .....
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you make it sound like my council tax 
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27-02-2011, 12:19
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
It's the same with anything. if you give people money such as dole. then not all of it is going to be spent on 'essentials'.
just live and let live. they're less trouble then 
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27-02-2011, 12:19
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
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you make it sound like my council tax |
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27-02-2011, 13:41
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
I'm just gobsmacked that officials are surprised by this .Schemes like this are notorious for being abused ,as has already been mentioned there was a thriving trade in milk tokens ,even family allowance books used to be signed over to loan sharks to pay for loans .Whichever form "free stuff" takes there will be someone prepared to abuse the system
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27-02-2011, 13:46
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
On the bright side, 4 out of 5 families are benefiting positively from this initiative.
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27-02-2011, 14:10
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
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On the bright side, 4 out of 5 families are benefiting positively from this initiative.
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and the other 1 is too p**sed to care
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27-02-2011, 14:44
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
Well the other 1 in 5 is getting fruit, vegetable or pulses, depending on the poison. They are just getting them post-fermentation.
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27-02-2011, 17:09
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
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and the other 1 is too p**sed to care |
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27-02-2011, 20:52
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Re: mothers swap fruit vouchers for booze and cigarettes
Not really a surprise is it we could probably all taken a good guess this was going on just as much as abuses in the tax system happen but no one seems to highlight those quite so much  .
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