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• Why the rich should get child benefit

  WHY RICH PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE CHILD BENEFIT The government is doing a U turn on the plan to scrap child benefit for those on higher tax brackets.  That’s great.  Here’s why: Child benefit works because it isn’t means tested.  You don’t have to prove your income.  That is why almost everyone who is entitled to it claims (read more...)
  March 7th, 2012

• MAKING LOTS OF BAD BENEFIT DECISIONS? HOW TO STOP CLAIMANTS CHALLENGING THEM

    MAKING IT HARDER TO APPEAL The government has started to work out how to make it harder to appeal, in line with powers brought in by the Welfare Reform Act which is now going through Parliament. The proposed changes will NOT apply to housing benefit or council tax benefit but WILL apply to universal credit and pension (read more...)
  February 13th, 2012

• Government says -Dont get sick

  GOVERNMENT SAYS- DON’T GET SICK!   Don’t get nasty illnesses or have accidents – That is what the government is telling hard working couples.  At the beginning of February it rejected amendments by the House of Lords and vowed to press on with its cuts to sickness benefits.   We don’t like to think about it, but long term (read more...)
  February 3rd, 2012

• National Insurance- What are you paying for?

  NATIONAL INSURANCE- JUST ANOTHER FORM OF TAX?   There are lots of people who will tell you that the national insurance contributions you pay, and your employer also pays on your behalf, are nothing but another form of taxation, that what you get is not related to what you pay and there is no national insurance fund.   They (read more...)
  January 26th, 2012

• The Work Programme, public service is private gain

  PUBLIC SERVICE IS PRIVATE GAIN The Work Programme has come to Lewes. This is the replacement for the many back to work schemes which used to exist. The Programme is what you get if you sign on as unemployed. Its aim is to find you work. There are two prime contractors for the Lewes area, G4S (formerly (read more...)
  October 20th, 2011

• Who is trying to steal your state pension?

  NATIONAL INSURANCE PENSIONS- ITS YOUR PENSION THEY ARE AFTER CUTTING- WHETHER OR NOT YOU WORK IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR! YOUR PENSION IS IMPORTANT The value of a good pension is more than most people’s houses are worth. Don’t give it up without a struggle, even if retirement is a long time away. This Angry Claimant tells you (read more...)
  October 7th, 2011

• Who stole your pension?

  WHO STOLE YOUR PENSION?  We’ve all heard the stories- “We can’t afford to pay pensions at the current level”.  People are living longer.”  “We would have to pay huge sums of money to afford decent pensions.” Whatever happened to all those stories of a comfortable retirement for everyone?  No one seems to know how it all works. (read more...)
  July 7th, 2011

• GOVERNMENT TO ENCOURAGE BENEFIT CLAIMANTS TO SPEND THEIR MONEY ON BOOZE AND JUNK FOOD

  Been cashing your benefits giro at the post office?  Perhaps paying a few bills at the same time? No more The post office has lost the contract.  It has gone to Paypoint from 2012. Details here So where you will be able to cash your giro? Where you see the Paypoint sign- Mainly at convenience (read more...)
  May 19th, 2011

• CUTS TO BENEFIT FOR SINGLE 25-34 YEAR OLDS

  CUTS TO BENEFIT FOR SINGLE 25-34 YEAR OLDS At the moment the government limits housing benefit for most single people living in the private sector to the local housing allowance for a room in a shared house.  The justification for this was originally that it was reasonable for young people to share.  It now intends to (read more...)
  May 18th, 2011