Why work when I can get £42,000 in benefits a year AND drive a Mercedes? Read more:

[kidd]

UK welfare system is so messed up.

Read what the leecher woman said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-Mercedes.html

Why work when I can get £42,000 in benefits a year AND drive a Mercedes? Read more:

By PAUL SIMS
Last updated at 12:02 AM on 13th April 2010

The Davey family's £815-a-week state handouts pay for a four-bedroom home, top-of-the-range mod cons and two vehicles including a Mercedes people carrier.
Father-of-seven Peter gave up work because he could make more living on benefits.
Yet he and his wife Claire are still not happy with their lot.
With an eighth child on the way, they are demanding a bigger house, courtesy of the taxpayer.

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More on the way: The Davey family at home

'It's really hard,' said Mrs Davey, 29, who is seven months' pregnant. 'We can't afford holidays and I don't want my kids living on a council estate and struggling like I have.
'The price of living is going up but benefits are going down. My carer's allowance is only going up by 80p this year and petrol is so expensive now, I'm worried how we'll cope.
'We're still waiting for somewhere bigger.'
Mrs Davey has never had a full-time job while her 35-year-old husband gave up his post in administration nine years ago after realising they would be better off living on the state.

At their semi on the Isle of Anglesey, the family have a 42in flatscreen television in the living room with Sky TV at £50 a month, a Wii games console, three Nintendo DS machines and a computer - not to mention four mobile phones.
With their income of more than £42,000 a year, they run an 11-seater minibus and the seven-seat automatic Mercedes.
But according to the Daveys they have nothing to be thankful for.
'It doesn't bother me that taxpayers are paying for me to have a large family,' added Mrs Davey.
'We couldn't afford to care for our children without benefits, but as long as they have everything they need, I don't think I'm selfish.
'Most of the parents at our kids' school are on benefits.'
She added: 'I don't feel bad about being subsidised by people who are working. I'm just working with the system that's there.
'If the government wants to give me money, I'm happy to take it. We get what we're entitled to. I don't put in anything because I don't pay taxes, but if I could work I would.'

The couple met in a pub 13 years ago. A year later, at the age of 17, Mrs Davey gave birth to Jessica, now 12.
She was followed by Jade, ten, Jamie-Anne, eight, Harriet, six, Adele, four, the couple's only son Tie, three, and Mercedes, two.
'It cost too much to carrying on working as we were actually better off unemployed,' said Mr Davey.
In addition to income support, housing benefit, child tax credits and a council tax discount, the couple receive carer's allowance and disability living allowance for Tie, who suffers from a severe skin disorder.
Despite filing for bankruptcy 18 months ago after racking up £20,000 of debt on mail order catalogues they still insist on splashing out on four presents per child at birthdays and last Christmas spent £2,000 on gifts alone.
'Santa is always generous in our house,' said Mrs Davey, who once applied to join the police but was turned down.
She insists her husband would do any job 'as long as we could still afford the lifestyle we have now'.
Mrs Davey, who spends £160 a week at Tesco, says she does not intend to stop at eight children. Her target is 14.
And she adds: 'I've always wanted a big family - no one can tell me how many kids I can have whether I'm working or not.'


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[kidd]

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/..._tax_rates.htm

UK income tax system

Income tax: taxable bands and rates 2010/2011

Taxable income - rate of tax
0 - £2,440 - 10 per cent (starting rate for savings only)
0 - £37,400 - 20 per cent (basic rate)
£37,401 - £150,000 - 40 per cent (higher rate)
Over £150,000 - 50 per cent (additional rate)

Some people have to pay 50% of their income to the government to support these welfare abusers.

[Guo Xiang]

That's disgusting. >_>

[wkeej]

That's always happen when welfarism becomes abused and exploited.

[pemberly]

i know someone who's made living off unemployment an art form.

[milKBoi]

A family full of redheads. So she has 6 more babies to pop out of her gigantic V.

[foreva]

it's hilarious that we slaved our lives off and yet end up with less after-tax dollars than these people.

[HuangYushi]

I'm less greedy. I'm happy with only RM42,000 a year and will keep/use my current car.

[xJadedx]

I guess someone probably didn't let them know that contraceptives cost less.

[Dirt]

This is why President Clinton reformed the welfare system in 1990's USA.

[kidd]

It will be against their best interest to use contraceptive because the more kids they pop out the more benefits they will get.

This couple is giving benefits receivers a bad name. There are people who genuinely need the benefits and not all live lavishly like them. I read in the comments section of this article. There's one disable benefit taker who live on a shoestring budget. I guess she doesn't have gazillion of kids to get more money from the government. There's also people who are really in need to didn't get benefits like pensioners and old folks. Some couples really wanted a child but couldn't afford one even when both are both because they have to pay off their mortgage and pay taxes. To think that their taxes will go to lazy bums like this is quite disheartening.

[Trien Chieu]

That is what Marxism all about. Obama will slowly transform the US into that system.

If her husband works and earn 50,000 pounds a year, they will be worse off than being on welfare.

[Lucre]

the tax is disgusting ~ so you're end up poorer if you worked. cant blame them for doing this....besides,
50k pounds isnt really all that much money, and then if you nearly halved it with 40%, that will really have horrendous effects on livelihood?!

[ByTmE]

This reminds me of some of the people I know who are on welfare or disability here in the DC area. Almost without exception, if you peeked into their homes, you'd find yourself face to face with a giant a$$ flat screen tv! LOL!

I'm not sure how those kids could ever bring any of their friends home after school! It's one thing to be a welfare child with truly struggling parents...but a completely different thing to be leeching of the system so openly. It's quite interesting actually. Most of the Asians I know that were once welfare kids still had really hard working parents who made ends meet with under the table income. Most of them made it out of the system, but I don't really forsee this happening for this group of kids. Some people are overly proud of their cleverness in cheating the government, and then teach it to their offspring. ::

Is there an equivalent term for "white trash" in the UK?

[kidd]

I can't find the original article. But, this one is even worse.

Getting £6400/month for not working?

The Davey family get £42,000/year but this woman get £9180/year.

http://comments.thisislondon.co.uk/l...essage=1697090

Is the government seriously not going to do anything about situation like these?

I'm a student/part time worker who is on the go 7 days a week, and paying my taxes... Many of my classmates have been denied a university loan this year because of funding issues...

On the other hand we have people like this woman who has 6 kids, husband left her, and she is getting £91800 a year in housing + children benefits... She pays no tax, she has no job, she brings nothing to the economy of this country, and yet our government is encouraging her to continue sponging off the rest of us by giving her £6400 a month on rent + £15000 a year for the kids!

Surely the money I give up in taxes goes to better use than this? Am I really helping to fund luxury lifestyles for scammers and con artists?

Or at least surely the people I trust to get this country out of an economic crisis are not stupid enough to let such outrageous abuse of the system go on?

Somebody pinch me so I can wake from this nightmare!!!

[ByTmE]

LOL! That first lady sounds so distressed! Yes, it's not fair, but when is life ever so! However, I agree that the sum of assistance given to this second family is just really ridiculous. How does the UK government have so much money to give away like that? I swear, post war, my parents immigrated to the wrong country!

[Trien Chieu]

LOL! That first lady sounds so distressed! Yes, it's not fair, but when is life ever so! However, I agree that the sum of assistance given to this second family is just really ridiculous. How does the UK government have so much money to give away like that?

By taxing the hard working people. That is marxism.

I swear, post war, my parents immigrated to the wrong country!

According to your quote, I thought you live in USA!!
If so, and you are considered it as a wrong country??

[ByTmE]

haha. I meant with such benefits allotted to undeserving Uk citizens, imagine how much people like my parents could have recieved if they chose to go the UK rather than the US of A! Well, I'm not sure if the UK were taking in war refugees anyway.

It was by a fluke that I'm American born, had The Mom had second thoughts, I'd be Australian right now!