The benefit cheat deserves any punishment they get, however, benefits and immigration issues are subject to so much misinformation.
Getting benefits these days is becoming as hard as obtaining a British passport.
The following tale may enlighten a few of you.
In October last year my son lost his job, to date he has received no benefits.
He has worked for 24 years as a fisherman. Being classed as self employed he is liable to pay his own tax.
Because my son had over £16,000 in the bank, he was disqualified from claiming job seekers allowance. His protestations that the money was not his, but was set aside for the tax man meant nothing.
In January my son paid his £14,000 tax bill, this included the money he owed for payment received since April last year until he finished work.
The dole said that he should not have paid this tax bill until it was due after the 6th of April coming, they said he should have lived on it, and accused him of disposing of assets.
So how the hell was he supposed to pay the tax on money already earned if he spends it on living expenses?
My lads not a happy man, he's earned over 50k a year for the last 10 years, and paid tax on every penny of it, his MP is looking into the matter, in the meantime he gets nowt.
I give him a couple of days work a week to keep the roof over his head.
Is he a benefit cheat? What bloody benefits?