Sarah, everyone should be able to manage their own money. This is even one of the fundamental aspects of intigrating even the most challenging of learning disabled people within society as it stands today. This group of people, most with very limited IQs, are given an allowance and taught to spend within their means and not fritter money away. Why can't other benefit claimants manage to do the same?And why do some benefit claimants -a lot of whom are, to me, a drain on tax-payers money - seem to be given priviledges over the ones who pay for their services in the first place? So why shouldn't they learn to be responsible for money that they haven't actually earnt in the first place and has been handed out to them, so when they are actually in a working environment learn to budget accordingly like the rest of the working people?Oh, and before the author of this thread bleets he's disabled, so am I, but I still manage to go to work and pay for things myself and not scrounge of the benefit system. Gosh, I hate to think what he would be like if he had to pay for the rent and council tax increases like the rest of us out of our limited earnings/pensions which doesn't actually rise just because a bill or two goes up. Working people have to re-budget and adjust their outgoings (like food) to pay for all the necessary increases beyond their control.
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