What a cunt

  • Fluke@lemm.ee
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    15 days ago

    The benefits system, relying as it does on privatisation from top to bottom, haemorrhages cash, this is truth.

    Go find out how much actual cash goes in.

    Then find out how much of that actually ends up in claimants’ hands.

    Then, finally, realise the scale of the problem.

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      15 days ago

      Did you know that if you’re renting, you can get that rent paid by benefit?

      That rent goes to a landlord who uses that rent to pay the mortgage on the property, maintain it (lol), and some profit.

      If, however, you “own” your home and are responsible for paying the mortgage and maintenance, the best you can get is a loan to cover the interest only. You must pay this loan back with interest if/when you sell your home.

      They’ll happily pay over the odds for “rent” costs to landlords, but they won’t pay less than that to you for your mortgage.

      They’re happy to pay a mortgage, just not to you, the benefit claimant.

      The whole system is rigged to take from the poorest and filter it all to those who have more than enough.

      • slakemoth@lemmygrad.ml
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        15 days ago

        Even if that’s true it doesn’t stop them needing the money

        The problem here is landlords not benefit claimant’s

        Get rid of landlords, they can simply sign on