The 10 families costing us £1m between them in state handouts | Mail Online.
Ten families in England are sharing an astonishing £1million a year in housing benefits, it emerged last night.
The huge sums being lavished on the families by the taxpayer are allowing them to live in streets normally reserved for millionaires.
Five of the families are receiving the maximum payment of £2,000 per week.
It is the first proof that George Osborne was correct when he claimed some households were receiving sums in excess of £100,000 a year.
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‘We are bringing an end to this by putting a cap on the total amount of benefit that a family can receive so the days of £100,000 housing benefit claims are gone.’
snip They needed proof?
Toorpakai Saiedi, a jobless Afghan immigrant with seven children, had rent of £2,875 per week on a large house in Acton, West London, paid by Ealing Council. The total benefits bill was £170,000 a year.
Foolish. No job, just lots of kids that they cannot afford to take care of. What is the UK thinking? Fine example of social justice gone haywire.
January 30, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Those are not Egypt’s treasures, but humankind’s. It looks as colonialism, in its efforts to save our legacy, was not all evil.
January 30, 2011 at 5:10 pm
Oops, wrong thread. I try again.
January 31, 2011 at 6:59 am
It’s a very sad statement Mary.
January 30, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Some Afghan peasant living like a Lord: that’s the entiylement mentality for you. Look for American welfare queens to start complaining that they should be living in penthouses, not public housing.
January 31, 2011 at 7:01 am
Quite absurd is correct.