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#13 by hamidm2

Please explain what I said is wrong ....

hamidm2
according to uk gov, billions in benefit is left unclaimed, may be due to social stigma. what we really need is the welfare mommas to breed to reverse declining population.


``Claimants miss out on up to £8bn


As much as 20% of all means-tested benefits, from the government and local authorities, was unclaimed in 2004/05.
Figures published by the Department for Work & Pensions show that between £4.8bn and £8bn was uncollected.
The money was a combination of income support, housing benefit, council tax benefit, job-seeker`s allowance and pension credit.
Earlier this year, the government estimated that about £5bn of tax credits also went unclaimed that year.
The Child Poverty Action Group charity (CPAG) said this had cut the potential incomes of those in greatest need.
``Today`s figures suggest that the Government is failing to make progress on take-up rates for means-tested benefits,`` said the CPAG`s chief executive, Kate Green.
``On the best estimate, around a quarter of entitled people are still missing out. By contrast, Child Benefit, which is not means-tested, has a take-up rate of around 98%.``
These latest figures do not cover benefits distributed by the DWP which are not means tested.
Those include disability living allowance, incapacity benefit, carers` allowance and child benefit.
Rising numbers
Overall, £31.7bn was handed out in income-related benefits, up from £29.5bn in 2003/04.
But the value of unclaimed benefits also rose and was between £570m and £705m greater than the year before.
The benefit with the worst take-up rate was job-seeker`s allowance, but the largest number of failed claimants was for council tax benefit, with up to 2.95 milllion people not claiming.
An analysis of the figures by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed:
• Income support (non-pensioners): £320m to £1,130m unclaimed. Take-up: 83%-94% by numbers and 90%-97% by value.
• Housing benefit: £800m to £1,650m unclaimed. Take-up: 84%-91% by numbers and 87%-93% by value.
• Council tax: £1,330m to £1,800 unclaimed. Take-up: 62%-68% by numbers and 65%-71% by value.
• Job-seeker`s allowance: £870m to £1,380 unclaimed. Take-up: 50%-59% by numbers and 55%-66% by value.
• Pension credit: £1,460m to £2,070m unclaimed. Take-up: 61%-69% by numbers and 72%-79% by value.
The ONS also said that the take up rate for pension credit - first introduced in 2003/04 - rose by about 3%.
However, across the other four benefits, there was a slight decrease in the proportion of eligible people claiming the money to which they were entitled.
Simply adding up the number of people who did not claim each benefit suggests that there might have been 6.3m of them.
But that figure is greatly inflated by the double counting of individuals who could have claimed more than one benefit but did not do so.
A DWP spokeswoman said they did not know exactly how many individuals failed to claim last year.
``There would have been a lot of double or triple counting of individuals,`` she said.
``One benefit, such as job-seeker`s allowance, can act as a passport to another, for instance housing benefit and council tax benefit,`` she added.

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Re: # 12

zeemax,

........ you and laquanda prove my point ! ........ thanks ...........

#11 by hamidm2

Hamidm, how many equal opportunities do unskilled Paks in your countries have other than to become cab drivers or small grocery store owners or live on welfare? (barring your sprinkle-guy).

That doesn`t mean I don`t agree with this article. I do. There is a blatant racism in your societies, both Europe and USA, and immigrant Paks would rather live on welfare in their own little communes than to endure unending insults.

always hit a mexican

........... because if you rear-end a nigerian at more than five miles and hour, enough to put a quarter sized dent in the bumper of his 96 chevy chevette, he will show up for work the next day in a neck brace and sue you for everything that you own ......... if nothing else, he will get a couple of days off every week for the next six months so that he can go for physical therapy ......... of course, the ultimate goal is to go on permanent disability and get a million dollar settlement for pain and suffering ............ on the other hand, the poor mexican, afraid of being deported will beg your forgiveness and offer to pay for the damage to your car ...........

.........and never ever hit a three hundred pound welfare momma because if she breaks one of her six inch nails, all hell will break loose !........... tha aclu, the naacp, the eoe, the ncaa, the nba, the nfl, professor masadi of `elite theory` fame and the urban league, will all come down on you with the collective weight of historical injustices suffered by the laquanda and her seven children from seven fathers ............

.......... there are some people who are predisposed to living off welfare, getting disability, abusing their diplomatic privelages to collect hundreds of unpaid parking tickets, collecting disability, livng in state subsidised housing and collecting food stamps even though they make fifty thousand a year in cash, avoiding taxes and generally exploiting every loophole in the system to live a good life while sitting on the porch and watching the traffic ............... why go to work and risk injury to your six inch nails when other people foolish enough to do it can keep you supplied with chitlins and beer with their tax dollars ?

.......... this disposition is a genetic disorder caused by a gene that european pakistanis seem to share with nigerians and the welfare mommas ............ or maybe it is because the `system` allows for this behaviour - if there was no welfare there would be no welfare abuse, or would there ?

............ in any case, if you do have to hit someone, hit a mexican or an indian ...........

p.s. hitting an indian will make you feel good even though it has no obvious benefit

Actually Wasiq is a wonderful writer. Thanks. Great imagery and gets the message across.

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........there is something to be said for a free ride..........

.......i had a dream of retiring by the time i was 40........had the .com boom gone for another four or five years, i seriously think i could have made it..........however, it was not to be.......plan A did not work.........so perhaps it is time for plan B..........

.......i have some relatives in UK, who have been on a free ride for a long time.......they are few cousins with their wives, kids and moms.......everytime i go visit them, i am amazed by the sense of contentment they have........they live in comfortable (suprisingly comfortable) small two to three bedroom govt. houses, next to each other.......they get an allowance for looking after their elderly mother(s)...........their kids are go to school and some of them are doing relatively well in college.......

but its their day to day routine that seems so easygoing.......the whole set of famlies wakes up and around 10 am or so gets together in one house and has a nice breakfast.........then an entertaining discussion........then some lunch and then all families get together for dinner.........

three of four homes enjoying a lazy comfortable existence.......every now and then, some of them get a job and then back to the free ride...............

granted, there is teh factor of self-esteem........but that wouldn`t be a problem, if everyone around you is also on a free ride...........i think a free ride should be something to be experienced..........after all, what in the world have i been paying all these taxes for?..........why should i pay for dost-mittar and temporal`s (whatever happened to him) retirement, when i can pay for my own.........

Wasiq... welcome back. It is really good to see your name re-materialize on Chowk after all these years. I`m glad you have departed the Land of the Free and come to Europe. Nuclear physics in the Alps...? That must be like a dream.

This was a very good narrative, the food part brought a tingling sensation above the angle of my jaws. Those Swiss tomatoes... yum... A refreshing change of topic.

Perhaps you`ve already observed that the Chowk crowd has changed in its character and whether you write about particle physics or cannage patch dolls it does not matter. Some interactors are monomaniacs and will boil everything down to either Pak-Bharat dushmani or Axis of Evil vs Great Satan debate.

...SR

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