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10.2 million pound Lottery Winners claim disability allowances

  • 04-02-2012 7:21pm
    #1
    Spoonman75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/10077211

    A couple who scooped a £10.2 million lottery jackpot have defended their right to claim benefits more than six years later.
    Mick and Jean O'Shea won the huge EuroMillions sum in 2005, but Mr O'Shea still receives £500 a month disability allowance because it is not means-tested, the Sun reported.

    Even though the're not actually breaking the law, do you think the money and free cars should go to people who can't afford it?

    The former builder told the newspaper: "I worked for 40 years and I'm entitled to it. I've been getting it since about 1996. I declared the win to the authorities at the time, but it doesn't matter as it's not means-tested."

    Hmmm....


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  • #2
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    Fair play to him. I'd do it if I could get away with it. If ye can't beat em, join em.


  • #3
    ottostreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    Don't see anything wrong with it tbh, yes they may be rich already, but they are entitled to it, so why not?


  • #4
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Because you can doesn't mean you should.
    I'd feel pretty mangey doing that.

    Stingey thread?


  • #5
    ringadingding
    Registered Users Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭ringadingding


    With 10 million he could turn himself into an Ironman, but he's probably not as he would lose his disability allowance.


  • #6
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Genghiz Cohen wrote: »
    Because you can doesn't mean you should.
    I'd feel pretty mangey doing that.

    Stingey thread?
    I couldn't agree more. In these recessionary times shouldn't there be more means testing to make sur the people getting benefits are in genuine need of them.


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  • #7
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    There's Legal, and there's Moral.......not always the same thing at all.


  • #8
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Spoonman75 wrote: »
    I'm entitled to it.
    That's what is wrong with Ireland.


  • #9
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Fucking idiots.


  • #10
    Spoonman75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭Spoonman75


    KKkitty wrote: »
    I couldn't agree more. In these recessionary times shouldn't there be more means testing to make sur the people getting benefits are in genuine need of them.

    If the couple won the Irish Lottery they would be means tested. In the UK it's not.


  • #11
    hmmm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,205 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    We shouldn't have to rely on people "doing the right thing", whether it comes to social welfare, pay or whatever. It's up to governments (and the people who elect them) making sure that they're spending our money properly.


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  • #12
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Spoonman75 wrote: »
    If the couple won the Irish Lottery they would be means tested. In the UK it's not.
    It should be means tested anyway no matter what country you reside in. People struggle every day and these people rubbing their noses in it doesn't make it better.


  • #13
    Spoonman75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭Spoonman75


    KKkitty wrote: »
    It should be means tested anyway no matter what country you reside in. People struggle every day and these people rubbing their noses in it doesn't make it better.

    I agree completely.


  • #14
    whatsamsn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 912 ✭✭✭whatsamsn


    Simple answer:

    They're hungry bastards. That 10 million is still in the bank.


  • #15
    pebbles21
    Registered Users Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    Claim it but give it away to charity...


  • #16
    candy-gal1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    its not that id feel bad or stingey tbh, even though it is a very stingey thing to do, but if i had 10.2 million in the bank or wherever i certainly wouldnt be even thinking of, oh must get my sw payment today! :confused:

    thats a very comfortable existance by far to have with 10million, my goal would to never be on sw again if i had that, just because i could definitly say that, most people couldnt.


  • #17
    TanG411
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    pebbles21 wrote: »
    Claim it but give it away to charity...

    Just about to say that.

    It's what Alan Sugar does with his allowances.


  • #18
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    ScumLord wrote: »
    That's what is wrong with Ireland.

    What that the uk disability allowance isn't means tested?


  • #19
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Bound to be Irish anyway.:rolleyes:


  • #20
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,458 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Such an attitude of entitlement in this country . . .


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ottostreet wrote: »
    Don't see anything wrong with it tbh, yes they may be rich already, but they are entitled to it, so why not?

    Entitled, the most over used, over rated word on the planet. Everyone thinks they are 'Entitled 'to something. ::rolleyes:

    Shouldnt any disablitiy be based on the fact that you cant work and therefore cant afford to look after your self? why does this man think he is Entitled to state care, when he can quite clearly care for himself.

    Greedy bastard. Kick up the hole is what hes entitled to.


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  • #22
    patwicklow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭patwicklow


    As he said he worked for 40 years and is entitled to it. regardless of the win


  • #23
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Look to your leaders

    David Cameron is a multi millionaire and claimed disability allowance for his son

    He is the leader after all and wants people to follow him


  • #24
    shockwave
    Registered Users Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭shockwave


    whatsamsn wrote: »
    Simple answer:

    They're hungry bastards. That 10 million is still in the bank.

    Totally agree they're just miserable, hungry,grasping, scum.


  • #25
    dilallio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    Jean O'Shea: "Now that we've won 10 million in the Lotto Mick, what will we do about all the begging letters?"

    Mick O'Shea: "Keep sending them Jean!"


  • #26
    Eoin
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 21,238 CMod ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    patwicklow wrote: »
    As he said he worked for 40 years and is entitled to it. regardless of the win

    It's not a pension.


  • #27
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,057 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Fair play to them I say. It's not their fault that such a ridiculous welfare system exists. It takes extreme cases like this to make people realise just how absurdly unfair and ambiguous the criterion is for some of this stuff.


  • #28
    Mickey Lover
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Mickey Lover


    Imagine having that amount of money and that attitude - it's sickening :mad:


  • #29
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    Such an attitude of entitlement in this country . . .

    It's a UK issue, unless you mean the few people in this thread who said they would do the same.


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    lets not kid our selves here, theres plenty in Ireland with that exact same sense of ENTITLEMENT, who are doin the diddle, taking money they dont need


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  • #31
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    patwicklow wrote: »
    As he said he worked for 40 years and is entitled to it. regardless of the win

    If everyone got their tax mone back through benfits what does the country run on?


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