http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=benefit-cap The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 17:23:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60742#post-176306 Thu, 02 May 2013 10:57:43 +0000 johnnydobbo 176306@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Department for Work and Pensions today issued guidelines considered by opponents to be the second wave of an attack on universality of benefits for people of pensionable age.</p> <p>"We think it is morally wrong", a statement from the department and signed by several members of the Cabinet said, "that there are people in this country who have lived on state handouts for their whole lives, now draw exceptionally large pensions and claim benefits they simply don't need". It went on to describe one claimant in central London who "has had 133 portraits painted at the taxpayers expense".</p> <p>"It is morally wrong", the Prime Minister later said in a typically soft interview on the ITV Daybreak sofa, "that hard-working families across the country fund lavish lifestyles. There's no reason for anyone to have 133 portraits of themselves. We've worked hard to ringfence benefits for the senior citizens of this country, but we can't rule out capping taxpayer-funded portraits to three or four in the future". </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54533#post-157639 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:13:49 +0000 Not Amused 157639@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It got to the FP in the end ! Deservedly so in my not necessarily valid opinion .. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54533#post-157636 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:40:22 +0000 Squudge 157636@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>extra bump for good measure </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54533#post-157635 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:38:02 +0000 dvo4fun 157635@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I was planning on bumping this tomorrow morning but just in case I forget ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54533#post-157582 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:35:14 +0000 nickb 157582@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>er The cap = contraception device. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54533#post-157524 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:24:52 +0000 stalinetta 157524@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very neat! Great idea - don't quite get the women in caps bit, but otherwise liking it a lot. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54533#post-157404 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:16:04 +0000 dvo4fun 157404@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wot, nuffink? That's Friday evening for you. Have these to tide you over nick </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54533#post-157363 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:29:21 +0000 nickb 157363@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The government announced plans for those claiming benefit for more than six months to be required to wear special headwear in public, in effect a compulsory benefits cap. “There will be no stigma attached at all,” said the Work and Pensions secretary. "The hats will simply advertise the fact that the wearer is seeking employment and has been for a long time, allowing would-be employers to approach them and offer them the minimum wage. Or simply to allow members of the public to give these people - who let’s face it wouldn’t have any hat at all unless we gave it to them - a piece of their mind.”</p> <p>“The so called benefits cap has been blown out of all proportion” said PM David Cameron. “For a start, it’s a hat not a cap. Secondly, it’s not – as some people have been saying – going to look like a dunce’s cap. Remember when Mr Hague started wearing a baseball cap backwards and calling everyone “dude” and we were all a bit concerned? It may look a bit like that. And all I can say is “If the cap fits….” </p> <p>"Meaning we will do our very best to supply the right headwear to the right people. This isn’t about forcing people to do things they don’t want to do with the curtains closed during the day, as Mr Osborne put it. When people go inside they can do what they like. Outside, we want some of them to wear these special hats, and I think especially in this cold weather these people will see the benefit. Or rather, they won’t."</p> <p>"There's also going to be a special cap that we want some of the women in these families to wear, because part of the problem is that we can't afford to keep very big families with lots of children on benefits. I'm not entirely sure how wearing a hat will, you know, affect this situation for the better, in fact some er ladies look better wearing a hat, and I for one bought that Tom Jones record when it came out, but I may have got the wrong end of the stick. Mr Hunt the health secretary has said he will come in and explain it to me, or he said I could ask Sam. But she only wears a hat for Ascot, which is a few months off." </p>