£30,000 a year?

i'm watching the jobless celeb program where there is a couple with five kids, one on the way and living in a six bedroomed house. they get just short of £30,000 a year!

although the dad is saying that he wished he could get a job, why the hell would he with that coming in? he's not had a job for 7 years and then not a job that would pay that sort of money.

£30,000 a year ffs!! i doubt that there is any job he could get that would bring in that sort of money.

whips

How much would he have to earn for tax credits or other benefits to make up the shortfall ?

I watched both nights (last night and tonight) and on the whole found it a very good programme...

The mother in question said she blamed her husband for them having so many kids
Perhaps she should have kept her legs closed

The reformed criminal living in Wolverhampton said he gets £114 per week out of which he pays £20 rent....

How the hell does he get that much ??......All I can get is £64 per week out of which I am expected to hand enough over to placate my mortgage lender....Then set about paying all the normal household bills and perhaps if there is any left feed myself AND keep enough back to get me to and from the countless interviews I am expected to attend to prove I'm not a career benefit recipient ....

This is no isolated incident...there are loads out there getting the same and in many circumstances more.

It is never a case of can't work, but won't work.

It is obscene where as Steve says he gets a pitiful ammount and because they never turn the telly on ( 52in plasma btw no doubt )they shag and make more babies!

More babies that the taxpayer has to fund.

Kick the lazy fecker out to work and make him see what the rest of us mugs have to do. But they won't...bad back no doubt.

Until there is a MASSIVE overhaul of the benefit system, these kinds of scroungers...that is what they are, will continue to take the piss out of us all. But you know the real sad thing about all this is that what they are doing has been made possible by Governments.

Makes me wonder why I bother to get up in the morning...oh yes I know now, as a taxpayer all my life I will get £64 a week just like Steve does.

And the alternative?kid growing up in poverty without enough food,ok i accept some people play the system but as a rich country why cant we ensure children have a decent standard of living?

i'm not saying they should kaz, but what i do know is that it doesn't take an extra £20,000 a year to look after 4 more kids than the other family who only had one. having kids is all well and good if you can afford them, but why should the state pay for baby churners? ok if you already have a big family and things go wrong, but then that is something that can happen to any of us. alternatively, if you are already on benefits stop having the kids, get off your arse and work.

whips

What is the breakdown of the £30,000? How is it made up? Is it really £30,000, I didn't see the programme but would be interested to see what benefits are actually being claimed.

To receive £30,000 net, you have to earn around £42,000 gross! As Arthur Daly used to say "it's a nice little earner"

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£170 seems cheap for a 6 bed house, student houses in Preston are coming on for that price for 3 beds, I wonder where they live.

I did a little research, they will probably be getting £100 couple's income support and then £56 for each dependent child which with the £170 will get to the £560 more or less.

The £56 for each child seems a bit excessive, I can understand that for the first but after that I would have expected the rate to drop considerably since the kids will be sharing things and should be wearing hand me downs.

On the face of it it looks wrong and community work of some sort for long term unemployed would put something back into the kitty. Still, I'm sure it will all change in May.