Society scum are the main gainers (Means testing)

Member Name: eclipse

Product:	Means testing
Date:	01/07/01 (60 review reads)
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Advantages: what advantages?

Disadvantages: The really needy people often don't get what they are entitled to.

Means testing seems, at first sight, a logical way of providing money to the genuinely needy....but quite frankly, the aspects of it that I have experienced within this family show that the whole thing is the greatest money supplier in the country for all those who know how to fiddle the system.

Several years ago a family member walked out on her husband; took all his money out of the bank, spent it, then later had the infernal nerve to claim disability allowances and housing benefits. She set her children up in a flat, all costs paid, and today has disappeared from the face of the earth (as far as the family is concerned; quite untraceable. The courts are still chasing her for money.
A number of years prior, we rented out a property to a couple who, unknown to us, were regular benefits fraudsters. Our solicitor failed in his duty to spot this. The couple claimed their housing benefits and spent the lot every month on luxuries; we never got a penny of our rent.

Means testing? Load of crap. It ought to be completely scrapped and redesigned, to prevent the scum of society from gobbling up money that ought to go to genuinely needy people.

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