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Christmas bonus for welfare recipients not only restored but increased

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  • #962
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    weldoninhio wrote:
    It’s free to the SW wasters if they are long term unemployed. Their free dole pays it, not them. No idea why rent for a SW house isn’t taken at source rather then giving the wastrels the cash, then watching them not pay and run up arrears of €73m

    It's not free they pay a differential rent. It's up to the council's to enforce rent collection.


  • #963
    All Seeing Eye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 330 ✭✭All Seeing Eye


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Obviously not that busy.

    Have to stop every now and then, 60 hour week this week so need to pause and reflect on the inequality created by handing out SW to total wasters and fraudsters then giving them a bonus aswell.


  • #964
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    It's not free they pay a differential rent. It's up to the council's to enforce rent collection.

    Where do they get the money to pay it?


  • #965
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    All Seeing Eye wrote:
    Have to stop every now and then, 60 hour week this week so need to pause and reflect on the inequality created by handing out SW to total wasters and fraudsters then giving them a bonus aswell.


    60 hour this week and it's only Tuesday. Seems it PS is not the only spoofer here.


  • #966
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    weldoninhio wrote:
    Where do they get the money to pay it?


    Do you assume all council/social tenants are on the dole?


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  • #967
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,496 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Do you assume all council/social tenants are on the dole?
    If they have a job they should be funding their own existence.
    If they do not have a job they should get one.


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    60 hour this week and it's only Tuesday. Seems it PS is not the only spoofer here.
    If you had a job you'd know it's pretty common to know your schedule in advance.


  • #968
    All Seeing Eye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 330 ✭✭All Seeing Eye


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    60 hour this week and it's only Tuesday. Seems it PS is not the only spoofer here.

    60 hour week this week clearly means I will work 60 hours this week. By the end of today I will have done 24 hours between today and yesterday. I will work a half day Saturday too. Easy to do 60 hours.


  • #969
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,983 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Hitman3000 wrote:
    Noone gets a free house. Ah my SW mates. Sorry bud not rising to your baiting attempt. Mad that a thread has gone so long because of a few whingers moaning at people getting a few extra euro at Christmas. Your life must be very full. ;-)
    So you can't grasp how somebody working hard and bringing up three kids on 50k per year would be annoyed by this? This person doesn't get a double weeks pay at Christmas and the waster does.


  • #970
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,411 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    60 hour this week and it's only Tuesday. Seems it PS is not the only spoofer here.

    You realise that it’s a week since last Tuesday ?


  • #971
    PauloMN
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 10,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭PauloMN


    Have to say, I find it pretty sickening that there is a "bonus" given to cover additional Christmas costs when there are so many areas in need of investment, esp in education and (imo) carer's allowance. We are (rightly) separating church and state, so why is there a dole bonus given for a Christian festival? Maybe we should do one for ramadan as well, no?

    SW is to cover the most basic of necessities for living i.e. food/light/heat/clothes etc., not Christmas presents and booze. Our SW system rewards those who choose not to work.

    I totally agree with having a proper SW system, but the way we do things in Ireland is all wrong. HAP being a perfect example - it has now become the norm for people who cannot actually afford to live where they want to live based on their salary to be able to do just that.

    If you want to know why we have a Dublin rental crisis (we DON'T have a housing crisis contrary to popular opinion), look no further than a SW system that allows low to middle income earners top up their spending power by €1500+ per month courtesy of the tax payer, purely so they can live down the road from their mother.


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  • #972
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    60 hour this week and it's only Tuesday. Seems it PS is not the only spoofer here.

    Tired of the lame personal attacks - reported.


  • #973
    gwalk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭gwalk


    All the sponger apologists falling over each other

    Pathetic


  • #974
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    All Seeing Eye wrote:
    60 hour week this week clearly means I will work 60 hours this week. By the end of today I will have done 24 hours between today and yesterday. I will work a half day Saturday too. Easy to do 60 hours.


    So you haven't done 60 hours thanks for clearing that up .


  • #975
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    _Brian wrote:
    You realise that it’s a week since last Tuesday ?


    The poster referred to this week. Do keep up.


  • #976
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    eagle eye wrote:
    So you can't grasp how somebody working hard and bringing up three kids on 50k per year would be annoyed by this? This person doesn't get a double weeks pay at Christmas and the waster does.


    I and all my colleagues get multiples of a week's pay at Christmas. Maybe you need a different job.


  • #977
    All Seeing Eye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 330 ✭✭All Seeing Eye


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    So you haven't done 60 hours thanks for clearing that up .

    I think you need special reading classes. I know where I’m going and what I’m doing this week and its going to be 60 hours of work. Plenty of experience in my profession so I know what’s needed.


  • #978
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    I think there should be a Christmas bonus for everyone. So whatever your situation is, you get an extra 200 back in the lead up to Christmas.


  • #979
    PauloMN
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 10,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭PauloMN


    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    I think there should be a Christmas bonus for everyone. So whatever your situation is, you get an extra 200 back in the lead up to Christmas.

    back from what?


  • #980
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    PauloMN wrote: »
    back from what?

    Tax break ?


  • #981
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    eagle eye wrote: »
    So you can't grasp how somebody working hard and bringing up three kids on 50k per year would be annoyed by this? This person doesn't get a double weeks pay at Christmas and the waster does.

    MYOB time... why get so worked up? Does not lessen what you earn or take from your lifestyle... as a UK pensioner I will get £10 and I am not envying the Irish pensioners. It is what it is. The £10 will be enough fr a good dinner etc.


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  • #982
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    PauloMN wrote: »
    back from what?

    A tax rebate of the same amount.


  • #983
    highgiant1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭highgiant1985


    I always find budget time annoying as every industry / interest group just come out complaining that not enough was done for them. Just once it'd be nice to hear someone to come out and say yeah we're happy with the budget.


  • #984
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Do you assume all council/social tenants are on the dole?

    And yet again, you need it to be explained to you, the people we are giving out about in this thread are the long term wastrels. So yes, i'm gonna assume that the long term unemployed wastrels that I'm giving out about are on the dole. Perhaps this time it will sink in??


  • #985
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    weldoninhio wrote:
    And yet again, you need it to be explained to you, the people we are giving out about in this thread are the long term wastrels. So yes, i'm gonna assume that the long term unemployed wastrels that I'm giving out about are on the dole. Perhaps this time it will sink in??


    It's always a bad idea to assume anything.


  • #986
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,496 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    highgiant1985 wrote: »
    I always find budget time annoying as every industry / interest group just come out complaining that not enough was done for them. Just once it'd be nice to hear someone to come out and say yeah we're happy with the budget.
    The owners of Diesel cars should be very happy, considering 10c/litre was being mooted


  • #987
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,983 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Hitman3000 wrote:
    I and all my colleagues get multiples of a week's pay at Christmas. Maybe you need a different job.
    You are in a different job to most.


  • #988
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    It's always a bad idea to assume anything.

    So its a bad idea to assume the long term unemployed don't have jobs??

    :confused::confused::confused::confused:


  • #989
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,253 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    ELM327 wrote: »
    The owners of Diesel cars should be very happy, considering 10c/litre was being mooted

    The government do this every year, release a rumour that they are going to increase the price of something, then increase it by half that amount so we say its not too bad. Diesel prices have increased by 14 cent already in the last 6 months, add another 5 cent to that now. Im not happy about it anyway.


  • #990
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    eagle eye wrote:
    You are in a different job to most.


    My wife works in retail, she gets a bonus. You should change jobs.


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  • #991
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    It's not free they pay a differential rent. It's up to the council's to enforce rent collection.

    It's up to the renter to actually be responsible and pay their rent. Why should they have to be chased by the council. They have a house for half nothing in the first place .


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