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What benefits from DWP would you cut in UK

Discussion in 'TalkCeltic Pub' started by Drakhan, Oct 9, 2014.

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  1. Drakhan Nac Mac Feegle Gold Member

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    According to figures the cost of benefits in the UK as a whole in 2011/2012 tax year was £166.9 billion which was £6.9 billion more than the previous year.

    How would you cut it if you had to.
     
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    no cuts but chase up google an starbucks an the like to pay their * share !!.
     
  3. Drakhan Nac Mac Feegle Gold Member

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    Figures as of 2011/2012 (probably went up since then)
    State Pension £74.2 billion
    Housing Benifit £16.94 billion
    DLA £12.57 billion
    all the rest are in single billion figures
     
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    Would start with corporate welfare

    "[FONT=&quot]Kevin Farnsworth, a senior lecturer in social policy at the University of York, has spent the best part of a decade studying corporate welfare…[his] figures, to be published in a forthcoming report, are astonishing. Farnsworth takes the financial year 2011-12 and tots up the subsidies and grants paid directly to businesses. They amount to over £14bn – that is, almost three times the £5bn paid out that year in income-based jobseeker’s allowance.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=&quot]Add to that the corporate tax benefits, the value of the cheap credit made available to banks and other business, the insurance schemes run by the government to protect exporters, the marketing for British business laid on by Vince Cable’s ministry, the public procurement from the private sector…Farnsworth calculates that direct corporate welfare costs British taxpayers just shy of £85bn a year.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=&quot]This, he admits, is a conservative estimate. I would throw in the public subsidy provided to too-big-to-fail banks, or the £25bn taxpayers shelled out that year in tax credits, housing and council tax benefits to people in work but not paid enough by their employers to live on. Nevertheless, Farnsworth has achieved something extraordinary: he has yanked into the open an £85bn subsidy that big business and the government would rather you didn’t know about”. [/FONT][FONT=&quot](Full article available on-line at: [/FONT][FONT=&quot]http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/06/benefits-corporate-welfare-research-public-money-businesses/print)[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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  5. Drakhan Nac Mac Feegle Gold Member

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    The above is why i said DWP benefits as the corporate fuckwits will NEVER lose out.
    So again, what DWP benefits would you cut in UK.

    Free TV licence for 75 and over - cost £0.59 billion in 2011/2012