It's all deliberate - the system is geared towards stripping normal people of everything they own or earn. Do your best, trust in God, that's all we can do.
i not sure they helped you i was exacttly the same as you but had no money so had to over come my fears ,i had panic attacks depression , social anxiety even tried to kill my slf ended up in hospital i had to over come it or i was finished im on medication but managed to get ajob and work but still struggle had a good few jobs over the year mansnged to buy my own home became quite confident done a lot of traveling im no longer shy but still get bouts of depression just come through a tripple by pass but now i live for today im quite happy to get through each day back workin having a routine keeps me sane but life ican brutal at times for sure
For older folks that’s why I am an advocate for Medical Assisted 💀… why try living as a adult baby? … sitting in front of rubbish day time tv until you die!? Better to go out on your own terms.
It's a know fact that in your elder years most of your money will go to health care to try to keep you alive as long as possible or until your cash flow runs out.
That’s why I am an advocate for Medical Assisted 💀… why try living as a adult baby? … sitting in front of rubbish day time tv until you die!? Better to go out on your own terms.
Not always.. you may instead be one of the many who just accept the aches and pain and pass away without having spent 10% of the lifelong medical contributions/ subsidies to others.
Beautiful rainbow indeed 🌈. The pathway where you drove was also beautiful. Plus i'm fond of hail 🙂. Gerald, maybe you should seek help from the government, whatever it takes. Your financial situation sounds serious and painful. I'm sure you are entitled to some kind of assistance from certain people in your country. How I agree that living in a car provides peace and awareness of the beauty of life around which you could miss when you are cooped up inside your home. Take good care, my friend. ❤️ Looking forward to your next videos.
And you find that rainbows are always in the same place, I think. We get some help, I think its called family credit or something similar, my wife deals with it but its not enough, the insurance for the house is around 6K a year, that's insane, when we came to this house we checked everything apart from insurance, our home in London we paid only £300 a year, so it would take 20yrs of paying insurance in London to add up to one year in this house, such a mistake we made. Thanks for your support my friend, I do appreciate you watching even when sometimes my video may not be entertaining or may be more serious or about subjects maybe we shouldn't talk about.
Can you do Deliveroo/Just eat type work; because it can fit around your schedule and you seem presentable and you would be able. To at least pass the time of day with someone, when you are delivering. It won't be enough to clear your debt, but it would help with basic expenses and if your car is economical on fuel then it could be done. So many questions I would like to ask you, but it would be prying and none of my business quite frankly. I can see the stress of the debt has affected you greatly; but one day hopefully you can turn this around. New clothes aren't important and are just material things at the end of the day. You could get something "new to you" in the charity shop? Anyway, I could go on, but I will leave it there. Love the 🌈!
@@gerofiore9695 I hope you'll be able to come up with workable solutions to your current problem. M L's suggestions sound sensible. Relying on RUclips gains and success may take a long while. My mother's case was the same as your Dad's when she was still alive. We were perplexed and annoyed by her paranoia and suspicions. Little did we know her change in behaviour and cognitive decline were all brought by her health issues which eventually led to dementia, cardiovascular, liver/kidney ailments. We found out only during her last days. Please bear with your father. I love watching your videos. I wish I could help you but I'm actually a lot poorer than you. I'm waiting for the pandemic brouhaha to die down a bit then I'll also start looking for ways to earn for my livelihood soon. Your videos are entertaining and enlightening. Plus your honesty and wisdom are refreshing. Thank you for sharing, Gero. 💖
Same in Australia. In home, assisted care and care homes. It's big business and large investor funds are making lots of money off the backs of others' suffering.
buddy, I need to watch your other videos to understand why you're in the car, respect you for putting so much money into a nursing home for your dad. I thought you had a family, a wife, kids. You don't deserve to be in a car. I think you're a good person. I wish you would get back on your feet and maybe find a job, a place to live, better food.
Yeah I do have a family, argh its a long story, to be honest my mum and dad worked very hard and earned the money to buy our home in London and so the money I put for dads care was the money they earned and saved all their lives, to be nest even if it was all my money I would still do it for my Dad or mum, my parents treated me well and loved me, maybe cause they couldn't ave kids and so wen they adopted me they treasured me and spoilt me
You paid 2 or 3 hundred thousand pounds , you must know how much ? There’s a big difference between 200,000 & 300,000 . You say you’re skint and you got no money but you drive around everyday in your car & you have 3 dogs , that cost money and you don’t work . Well you look like you’re doing okay to me
£1,100 in London for 3yrs then another 3 yrs in Norfolk, that's 6 yrs, that's a roundabout figure cause I left this all to my wife but I know the money is GONE, £340,000 is 6 years @£1,100 per week x 52 weeks x 6 years, so its actually MORE, I left the paperwork and money with my wife that's why I didn't know exaclty
I am not a dog person so maybe I do not understand. But if I was broke the last thing i would have is a pet. They are pretty much like kids, need your time and your money and kind of restrict your freedom. Even some landlords won't take you if you have pets.
@Vlogging.on.a.donkey I think he is sincere. Just seem to have some mental health issues that were not dealt with. Didn't listen much about him but it sounds weird for a 57 year old to be super depressed about the death of his father for instance. Hasn't apparently worked for 30 years. Etc. Something is definitely odd and I don't see him getting out of it. He doesn't seem to have a support system around him and the internet is a horrible therapist
@@bigbrother4ever yeh you’re right but sometimes it does help to tell your story the best way you can but to be as honest as possible , I believe he put his father into a home probably believing his father would not live as long as, care homes charge extortionate fees . His inheritance was soon to be exhausted and the care home would obviously make demands and the life he was expecting for himself and his family would be gone .
That’s why I am an advocate for Medical Assisted 💀… why try living as a adult baby? … sitting in front of rubbish day time tv until you die!? Better to go out on your own terms.
Yes and No, if you are skint they do, if you have some money they wont,and the carehome will vacuum your savings until there is not money left then the NHS will take over, the level of care is not the same, the quality is not the same and so as a son or daughter you want the best for your parents or loved ones and you'll pay for it, to keep them comfortable
Grandad should have lived with the family. You didn't work and were free to care for him. That way you'd have saved all that money and claimed carer's allowance and attendance allowance on top
My Dad couldnt get up and neede two ppl to lift and carry him and clean him he needed 24hr care and I do it until I was exhausted and asked for help still I didn't want him to go to care home, infact many go in and never come out, my Dad come out as I asked to take him back to look after him at home, but when wifey isn't the nurturing kind its very tough for one person to do it all, and try to run a business, clean plates, look after dogs etc etc
@@gerofiore9695 Old people's homes generally, or married to rich men. As mentioned, lots of nice, reasonably well-off women like nordic walking. They do here anyway.
It sounds like since you haven't worked in 30 years that your parents supported you. When you were forced to sell your parents home that you took $70000 of that to invest but lost it. Obviously your wife must have worked to help support you. I would think at some point you would have been desperate to find a job. Who pays for your gas and food now? Dogs are expensive
No she didnt work to support me that why money has dwindled down to the point we have to sell the house, I took out also 300K to pay fro Dad care, yes I was desperate but with mental health issues I couldn't work with ppl so that's why I tried to make money with the old youtube channel, dogs can be expensive but at the moment I share what little I have with them, I get the cheapest food possible, we hardly use the car only for short trips and to sit inside to make the videos
If his father had money in his bank account or assets e.g. his home, then social services/the care home will use that money until there is only £23,250 left after which time the state will then fund it. I know because I've just been through it with my own dad.
Terrible system, so you work hard all your life, then the government rob you at your weakest time. You know there’s a loop hole the politicians and wealthy use
You seem to have been given a decent inheritance by your parents thanks to high London house prices. You've spent alot of it and are now worrying. As for pension, if somebody hasn't paid enough NI contributions they can still claim "pension credit". But that's means tested and they take into account savings and family assets, apart from the primary residence
Why did you have to pay? Surely you did not have to fund these costs but you chose to? But, did YOU really pay? Your father's costs are not your costs. I understand you wanted the best for your father, but he was never going to come back. Dementia is dementia, it's a progressive condition that doesn't improve. Your father no doubt paid into the healthcare system all his working life and that system is what should be taking care of him. That, and his own assets. The home in London, whose house was that? You grew up there, so this was your parents' house not yours? In this case, you haven't paid, your father paid via disposal of his property - it was never yours? You didn't lose ANY money, it was a potential inheritance so not yours, not earned by you but earned by your parents?
Your Dad must of been the home owner of property that’s why his care wasn’t free to be fair if he owns property and has a good bank account it’s only right ! Listening to you it’s obvious he had a lot of saveing and maybe gave you the home you and your wife live in ,It’s only right for you to receive inheritance but your allowing your wife to drain you dry !Do something about it I think she married for the money and she wants all what you have .Stand up and recover who you are sell the house get rid of her and start a new life with someone who wants to love you .
@@gerofiore9695 maybe she already had all of this pre planned!! I see the hurt in your eyes when you make these videos cut your losses sell the house and make a new life it’s not to late so what your 50 or whatever.buy a house with what you get it will be smaller but it will be paid for no debt.you’re actually a nice looking guy you can still find love and be happy. Maybe if the root of your problems go you won’t have this depression you can find your way in life .Dont worry about your kids they will come round and will except things has the get older . This depression is running you into the ground!!!
@@sonya11328 I wish ppl believed me, but I see they don't. I don't blame them at all, I can answer all these 'complaints' in a video otherwise I keep repeating myself, when it comes to Dad and his money, I calculated around £300K more or less, the reason I don't know is that cause of depression I left all of this to my wife, i.e. money matters, I calculated in my mind £1100 x 3 yrs in London then 2 or 3yrs in Norfolk is around £300K, my car looks like some luxurious car its worth maybe £200 if Im lucky its an old Volvo V70 maybe 20yrs old or more, I think at this point I have to focus on my health both mental and physical and spiritual, comments like yours help me a lot, thankyou
An OLD VolvoV70 DIESEL estate, if I sell it it would be worth maybe £200, my first car was an OLD beige Fiesta, loved that car, a full tank a few years ago was75 quid now its over £100 but the 1000 miles is if Im driving on the motorway at 55miles per hr, no way does it do that on a day to day basic, stopping and starting, i.e. braking and accelerating, my wife puts in £100 a month now and HAVE to not go over that budget so I tell her to stay local and not go to Norwich which is a few miles away to save money
I’m really confused, feel sorry for you but how did you end up with so much money in the first place? If you’ve not really ever worked, where did the £200-300k come from in the first place. It looks like you live in a massive expensive home.
@@gerofiore9695gotcha, so you sold the London house you inherited, bought a cheaper one in the country, and now you’re selling that one? Hopefully you get a good chunk of change. I don’t think inherited money has to be separated at divorce, so I would check on that before you hand 50% or more over.
Thats a great point, an older bloke commented and said that y petrol and care were paid for by his taxes, in 35yrs I dint work, he assumes I was on the dole for all that time, my parents paid into the system as all our parents did for 40 or 50yrs, I only claimed when I was in serious trouble, only a few years out of those 35, why? cause I thought it wasn't right, I lived with mum and dad and they fed me, I lived below my means as they say, the problem with that is that now I have no pension cause when you are on the dole they paid your stamps, now Im royally F'ed as I doubt I will have any pension, maybe 20p a week, hehe. I don't know what they give, its probably better if I go to France then come on a dingy grow my beard a bit as I do look middle eastern when I do then I may get benefits, pension etc, whats not fair is that their parents never paid thousand or hundreds of thousands into the pool of money the government have and still get more than us, mind boggling
How I lost all my money
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It's all deliberate - the system is geared towards stripping normal people of everything they own or earn. Do your best, trust in God, that's all we can do.
The Calvary
never shows up for any of us; selling your home is painful indeed and getting another in this world is massively challenging
You took the right move! What is the money used for? Takecare of your family. Now find means to invest and recreate wealth
Investing isn't creating wealth.. that's just being given wealth and watching it grow.
Why are people saying he should think about himself? When you've got kids, their well being, future and financial future should be top priority
No one should have kids until they have a home fully paid for
@@steelearmstrong9616wrong.
@@steelearmstrong9616 omg ... really? Then very few people would have kids... think.
@@steelearmstrong9616 What an idiot comment.
i not sure they helped you i was exacttly the same as you but had no money so had to over come my fears ,i had panic attacks depression , social anxiety even tried to kill my slf ended up in hospital i had to over come it or i was finished im on medication but managed to get ajob and work but still struggle had a good few jobs over the year mansnged to buy my own home became quite confident done a lot of traveling im no longer shy but still get bouts of depression just come through a tripple by pass but now i live for today im quite happy to get through each day back workin having a routine keeps me sane but life ican brutal at times for sure
For older folks that’s why I am an advocate for Medical Assisted 💀… why try living as a adult baby? … sitting in front of rubbish day time tv until you die!? Better to go out on your own terms.
God Bless. thank you for sharing you story be positive ...see what you want and I pray you get results
Thankyou
It's a know fact that in your elder years most of your money will go to health care to try to keep you alive as long as possible or until your cash flow runs out.
a total scam ...when your time comes then that's it ... dont piss away the family jewels for a few more shitty years on life support.
That’s why I am an advocate for Medical Assisted 💀… why try living as a adult baby? … sitting in front of rubbish day time tv until you die!? Better to go out on your own terms.
Not always.. you may instead be one of the many who just accept the aches and pain and pass away without having spent 10% of the lifelong medical contributions/ subsidies to others.
Beautiful rainbow indeed 🌈.
The pathway where you drove was also beautiful. Plus i'm fond of hail 🙂.
Gerald, maybe you should seek help from the government, whatever it takes. Your financial situation sounds serious and painful. I'm sure you are entitled to some kind of assistance from certain people in your country.
How I agree that living in a car provides peace and awareness of the beauty of life around which you could miss when you are cooped up inside your home.
Take good care, my friend. ❤️
Looking forward to your next videos.
And you find that rainbows are always in the same place, I think.
We get some help, I think its called family credit or something similar, my wife deals with it but its not enough, the insurance for the house is around 6K a year, that's insane, when we came to this house we checked everything apart from insurance, our home in London we paid only £300 a year, so it would take 20yrs of paying insurance in London to add up to one year in this house, such a mistake we made.
Thanks for your support my friend, I do appreciate you watching even when sometimes my video may not be entertaining or may be more serious or about subjects maybe we shouldn't talk about.
Can you do Deliveroo/Just eat type work; because it can fit around your schedule and you seem presentable and you would be able. To at least pass the time of day with someone, when you are delivering. It won't be enough to clear your debt, but it would help with basic expenses and if your car is economical on fuel then it could be done. So many questions I would like to ask you, but it would be prying and none of my business quite frankly. I can see the stress of the debt has affected you greatly; but one day hopefully you can turn this around. New clothes aren't important and are just material things at the end of the day. You could get something "new to you" in the charity shop? Anyway, I could go on, but I will leave it there. Love the 🌈!
@@gerofiore9695 I hope you'll be able to come up with workable solutions to your current problem. M L's suggestions sound sensible. Relying on RUclips gains and success may take a long while.
My mother's case was the same as your Dad's when she was still alive. We were perplexed and annoyed by her paranoia and suspicions. Little did we know her change in behaviour and cognitive decline were all brought by her health issues which eventually led to dementia, cardiovascular, liver/kidney ailments. We found out only during her last days. Please bear with your father.
I love watching your videos. I wish I could help you but I'm actually a lot poorer than you. I'm waiting for the pandemic brouhaha to die down a bit then I'll also start looking for ways to earn for my livelihood soon.
Your videos are entertaining and enlightening. Plus your honesty and wisdom are refreshing. Thank you for sharing, Gero. 💖
Who will ever have 200 grand you monetarist acting fool.
You have a lot to offer and you are giving value don’t give up my friend there is a breakthrough just around the corner
Care home in the USA are a rip here too
Same in Australia. In home, assisted care and care homes. It's big business and large investor funds are making lots of money off the backs of others' suffering.
buddy, I need to watch your other videos to understand why you're in the car, respect you for putting so much money into a nursing home for your dad. I thought you had a family, a wife, kids. You don't deserve to be in a car. I think you're a good person. I wish you would get back on your feet and maybe find a job, a place to live, better food.
Yeah I do have a family, argh its a long story, to be honest my mum and dad worked very hard and earned the money to buy our home in London and so the money I put for dads care was the money they earned and saved all their lives, to be nest even if it was all my money I would still do it for my Dad or mum, my parents treated me well and loved me, maybe cause they couldn't ave kids and so wen they adopted me they treasured me and spoilt me
Did you check out Mr Idiot and the Tractors, on my silly channel :)
Nothing
Makes sence
If there was no-one else to pay where would your Dad have gone ? I assume there is Government-funded places ?
You paid 2 or 3 hundred thousand pounds , you must know how much ?
There’s a big difference between 200,000 & 300,000 .
You say you’re skint and you got no money but you drive around everyday in your car & you have 3 dogs , that cost money and you don’t work .
Well you look like you’re doing okay to me
£1,100 in London for 3yrs then another 3 yrs in Norfolk, that's 6 yrs, that's a roundabout figure cause I left this all to my wife but I know the money is GONE, £340,000 is 6 years @£1,100 per week x 52 weeks x 6 years, so its actually MORE, I left the paperwork and money with my wife that's why I didn't know exaclty
I am not a dog person so maybe I do not understand. But if I was broke the last thing i would have is a pet. They are pretty much like kids, need your time and your money and kind of restrict your freedom. Even some landlords won't take you if you have pets.
@Vlogging.on.a.donkey I think he is sincere. Just seem to have some mental health issues that were not dealt with. Didn't listen much about him but it sounds weird for a 57 year old to be super depressed about the death of his father for instance. Hasn't apparently worked for 30 years. Etc. Something is definitely odd and I don't see him getting out of it. He doesn't seem to have a support system around him and the internet is a horrible therapist
@@bigbrother4ever yeh you’re right but sometimes it does help to tell your story the best way you can but to be as honest as possible ,
I believe he put his father into a home probably believing his father would not live as long as, care homes charge extortionate fees .
His inheritance was soon to be exhausted and the care home would obviously make demands and the life he was expecting for himself and his family would be gone .
@@indy18286 That the difference between you and me, I would exhaust my own money for my Mother or Father, maybe now you understand?
That’s why I am an advocate for Medical Assisted 💀… why try living as a adult baby? … sitting in front of rubbish day time tv until you die!? Better to go out on your own terms.
The NHS doesn't cover care homes?
Yes and No, if you are skint they do, if you have some money they wont,and the carehome will vacuum your savings until there is not money left then the NHS will take over, the level of care is not the same, the quality is not the same and so as a son or daughter you want the best for your parents or loved ones and you'll pay for it, to keep them comfortable
Live stream all over Britain, people love those. Show us the Coswolds
Grandad should have lived with the family. You didn't work and were free to care for him. That way you'd have saved all that money and claimed carer's allowance and attendance allowance on top
Dementia patients can get very hostile and violent.
My Dad couldnt get up and neede two ppl to lift and carry him and clean him he needed 24hr care and I do it until I was exhausted and asked for help still I didn't want him to go to care home, infact many go in and never come out, my Dad come out as I asked to take him back to look after him at home, but when wifey isn't the nurturing kind its very tough for one person to do it all, and try to run a business, clean plates, look after dogs etc etc
It's shit. Lot of people in same situation. No solution to suggest, just sympathy. That or marry a rich widow.
Hahah ... you are right mate, a rich bird, where are they?
@@gerofiore9695 Old people's homes generally, or married to rich men. As mentioned, lots of nice, reasonably well-off women like nordic walking. They do here anyway.
❤ 😢 so sad Gerald
It sounds like since you haven't worked in 30 years that your parents supported you. When you were forced to sell your parents home that you took $70000 of that to invest but lost it. Obviously your wife must have worked to help support you. I would think at some point you would have been desperate to find a job. Who pays for your gas and food now? Dogs are expensive
No she didnt work to support me that why money has dwindled down to the point we have to sell the house, I took out also 300K to pay fro Dad care, yes I was desperate but with mental health issues I couldn't work with ppl so that's why I tried to make money with the old youtube channel, dogs can be expensive but at the moment I share what little I have with them, I get the cheapest food possible, we hardly use the car only for short trips and to sit inside to make the videos
You should have spoken to a lawyer at the time. You don't have to pay for your dad. The government does.
If his father had money in his bank account or assets e.g. his home, then social services/the care home will use that money until there is only £23,250 left after which time the state will then fund it. I know because I've just been through it with my own dad.
Yes it depends whose name the assests are in.
@@Alien8_P1 this is correct. I still think he should speak to a lawyer to see if he can get money back.
Terrible system, so you work hard all your life, then the government rob you at your weakest time. You know there’s a loop hole the politicians and wealthy use
@@sphinx1017 Worth a go.
What was the RUclips business?
Childrens channel
You seem to have been given a decent inheritance by your parents thanks to high London house prices. You've spent alot of it and are now worrying. As for pension, if somebody hasn't paid enough NI contributions they can still claim "pension credit". But that's means tested and they take into account savings and family assets, apart from the primary residence
Thankyou I didnt know that
Why did you have to pay? Surely you did not have to fund these costs but you chose to? But, did YOU really pay?
Your father's costs are not your costs.
I understand you wanted the best for your father, but he was never going to come back. Dementia is dementia, it's a progressive condition that doesn't improve. Your father no doubt paid into the healthcare system all his working life and that system is what should be taking care of him. That, and his own assets.
The home in London, whose house was that? You grew up there, so this was your parents' house not yours? In this case, you haven't paid, your father paid via disposal of his property - it was never yours? You didn't lose ANY money, it was a potential inheritance so not yours, not earned by you but earned by your parents?
Your Dad must of been the home owner of property that’s why his care wasn’t free to be fair if he owns property and has a good bank account it’s only right ! Listening to you it’s obvious he had a lot of saveing and maybe gave you the home you and your wife live in ,It’s only right for you to receive inheritance but your allowing your wife to drain you dry !Do something about it I think she married for the money and she wants all what you have .Stand up and recover who you are sell the house get rid of her and start a new life with someone who wants to love you .
Once Iseel the house she takes more than half, she thought about this maybe a looong time ago
@@gerofiore9695 maybe she already had all of this pre planned!! I see the hurt in your eyes when you make these videos cut your losses sell the house and make a new life it’s not to late so what your 50 or whatever.buy a house with what you get it will be smaller but it will be paid for no debt.you’re actually a nice looking guy you can still find love and be happy. Maybe if the root of your problems go you won’t have this depression you can find your way in life .Dont worry about your kids they will come round and will except things has the get older . This depression is running you into the ground!!!
@@sonya11328 I wish ppl believed me, but I see they don't. I don't blame them at all, I can answer all these 'complaints' in a video otherwise I keep repeating myself, when it comes to Dad and his money, I calculated around £300K more or less, the reason I don't know is that cause of depression I left all of this to my wife, i.e. money matters, I calculated in my mind £1100 x 3 yrs in London then 2 or 3yrs in Norfolk is around £300K, my car looks like some luxurious car its worth maybe £200 if Im lucky its an old Volvo V70 maybe 20yrs old or more, I think at this point I have to focus on my health both mental and physical and spiritual, comments like yours help me a lot, thankyou
@@gerofiore9695 if I was you I would go tho the band ask them for back dated statements check incoming and out you might find something interesting
Serious quesion. Am skint. Drive Ford Fiesta. What car do you drive that gives you 1000 miles or so per tank? And how much does a tank cost?
An OLD VolvoV70 DIESEL estate, if I sell it it would be worth maybe £200, my first car was an OLD beige Fiesta, loved that car, a full tank a few years ago was75 quid now its over £100 but the 1000 miles is if Im driving on the motorway at 55miles per hr, no way does it do that on a day to day basic, stopping and starting, i.e. braking and accelerating, my wife puts in £100 a month now and HAVE to not go over that budget so I tell her to stay local and not go to Norwich which is a few miles away to save money
@@gerofiore9695 sometimes an older car lasts forever if maintained... volvo are good for this..and can be good money savers !
I thought you were married with kids? You don't live together?
Yeah I do
You haven't lost anything.. You have both have a car and a dog = a very rich person!
I’m really confused, feel sorry for you but how did you end up with so much money in the first place? If you’ve not really ever worked, where did the £200-300k come from in the first place. It looks like you live in a massive expensive home.
Loong story, my parents worked very hard and thus acquired our home in London
@@gerofiore9695gotcha, so you sold the London house you inherited, bought a cheaper one in the country, and now you’re selling that one? Hopefully you get a good chunk of change.
I don’t think inherited money has to be separated at divorce, so I would check on that before you hand 50% or more over.
Yu should have milked the system like everybody else, I know of people who have never done a days work, just like the immigrants ,?????¿????????????
Thats a great point, an older bloke commented and said that y petrol and care were paid for by his taxes, in 35yrs I dint work, he assumes I was on the dole for all that time, my parents paid into the system as all our parents did for 40 or 50yrs, I only claimed when I was in serious trouble, only a few years out of those 35, why? cause I thought it wasn't right, I lived with mum and dad and they fed me, I lived below my means as they say, the problem with that is that now I have no pension cause when you are on the dole they paid your stamps, now Im royally F'ed as I doubt I will have any pension, maybe 20p a week, hehe. I don't know what they give, its probably better if I go to France then come on a dingy grow my beard a bit as I do look middle eastern when I do then I may get benefits, pension etc, whats not fair is that their parents never paid thousand or hundreds of thousands into the pool of money the government have and still get more than us, mind boggling