Govt to press ahead with welfare plans despite Lords defeat

Benefits

It doesn't make a difference whether CB is included or not. There are no restrictions to what CB can be spent on so if parents want to spend it on themselves they will. I don't know many people that EARN 26k so why on earth should people who don't want to work get 26k? If you are ill or cannot work fair enough but if you are lazy or taking advantage of the system its not on. We could have an amazing country but if we carry on paying out more than is being paid it this country will go bust.

Posted by: R Whitehead

Common Sense

It's about time common sense prevailed. Most tax payers are opposed to the 'unwilling to work' parasites milking the flawed benefit system. Clearly the Lords have too much income/expenses to understand the difficult times for working people on lower incomes than those on benefits

Posted by: LesCar

Bone Idle

We come accross people on benefits of all kinds in our daily work. Some of them need support but very many of them are lazy and will not motivate themselves to make any effort whilst they are getting easy money from the state. The government are right in this clamp-down which is long overdue and which has got out of hand thanks to Labours policy to "keep familes from poorer backgrounds out of poverty" (you can still hear Gorden Brown saying it now - after so many times when he was in power). The government realise that "poor" is sometimes a result of having a bad attitude, being idle and preferring to be incapable. Why should that get a reward? Reap what you sew and stop nicking somebody elses crop.

Posted by: dwinsal

This Gravy train should stop now

Its all very well helping the needy but what about them helping themselves,its called getting a job, I have no hesitation in agreeing to my taxes being used to help genuine people who are suffering hardship through no fault of there own, but object strongly when my tax money is used to support irresponsible and lazy non patriotic people who are bleed this country dry, I notice the BBC are still showing there same old bias, like the example of the woman on benefit last night's news with 5 children, did she ever consider how she would support them,however its not the childrens fault, We're "broke" and can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Are you aware of the following?The British Government provides the following financial assistance: - BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER Weekly allowance £104. BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER Weekly Spouse allowance £25 BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER Additional weekly hardship allowance £0 BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT £6,000 The average pensioner has paid taxes and contributed to the growth of this country for the last 40 to 60 years, Sad isn't it To sum up we pay nearly 5 times what the average pensioner receives to people that have never paid tax or contributed anything to the BRITISH economy and are never likely to OH BRITAIN, where did we go wrong?

Posted by: Geoff