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Social Welfare Scams

  • 12-07-2012 02:41PM
    #1
    Tim Robbins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭Tim Robbins


    Hi,
    Sometimes there is this perception from the right wing types that people on social welfare are milking it. They have Sky Sports, loads of money to go to the pub and they follow the Irish Soccer team everywhere.

    How could they afford all this when they only get 200 euro a week, I don't know.

    So my question is what's the biggest welfare scam you have heard about?


Comments

  • #2
    Welease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭Welease


    Who gets €200 a week?

    Define Social Welfare.. Define Scam..

    My 3 year old gets about €500 quid a month, and has over €15K is his bank account already.. Scam? Payback? Necessary? Opinions will differ......


  • #3
    Paulzx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭Paulzx


    Welease wrote: »

    My 3 year old gets about €500 quid a month,...

    ???????????????:confused::confused:


  • #4
    antoobrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭antoobrien


    Welease wrote: »
    Who gets €200 a week?

    Define Social Welfare.. Define Scam..

    My 3 year old gets about €500 quid a month, and has over €15K is his bank account already.. Scam? Payback? Necessary? Opinions will differ......

    So you've only spent 1/4 of the child benefit payments.

    hello revenue, there's this poster on boards that could pay a bit of extra tax...


  • #5
    Welease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭Welease


    antoobrien wrote: »
    So you've only spent 1/4 of the child benefit payments.

    hello revenue, there's this poster on boards that could pay a bit of extra tax...

    Child benefit is €140 PER MONTH (iirc)

    http://www.welfare.ie/EN/Schemes/BirthChildrenAndFamilies/ChildRelatedPayments/Pages/cb.aspx


  • #6
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,701 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    the best one is surely popping out a few sprogs at 16 or 17 etc. and free loading off the taxpayers for all eternity!


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  • #7
    starviewadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    It's €188 a week is it not?and aren't recipients entitled to spend their benefits on whatever they want anyways?


  • #8
    wesf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭wesf


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    the best one is surely popping out a few sprogs at 16 or 17 etc. and free loading off the taxpayers for all eternity!
    no it has to be the foreigners flying in every 3 months to sign on and pick up the previous 3 months payments and then flying home, joke of a country


  • #9
    Alma Thankful Barium
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Alma Thankful Barium


    this isn't appropriate for politics forum


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