Is the benefits rise too small? Feat. Kevin Maguire & Saira Khan | Jeremy Vine
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2024
- A government boost to Universal Credit has come into force, giving claimants around £30 extra a month.
The payment, which helps those who are on a lower income or without a job, has risen 6.7%, in line with inflation.
At the lowest end, single people aged under 25 will now qualify for £311.68 per month.
And at the highest, joint claimants both aged 25 and over will be entitled to £617.60 per month.
The move coincided with a larger rise to the state pension of 8.5%.
Is that fair? Should people on universal credit get more?
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Me thinks Peter is lying 😂😂😂
Peter is probably including his housing benefit in that sum. I think the maximum housing benefit pays is £400 per month but that varies region by region.
If Peter gets the health element and transitional payments plus the full PIP he's getting around £2000 per month so what is says isn't far off and too unbelievable.
He's definitely on happy pills.
he must be lover of tories then
The silence when he mentioned his alleged neighbour 😂
He is lying he's a prankster
£500 a week on benefits for the last 15 years but a pensioner who has paid into the system all their working life gets £220!
and I'm sure he'd swap with you happily if you take on his crippling mental illness.
that call seems like a wind up
Severe mh can't make calls to radio/TV station
Peter from Wolverhampton is a repetitive caller!
wow so I have to pay tax on my pension which is just over £13,500 but he doesn't have to pay tax on his £25,000 just because he gets housing benefit?!?!?!?
Sara is talking through her backside. The government has caused the biggest mental health crisis this country has ever seen. And the inhumane uncaring humiliating benefits system doesn’t help at all. The government or the DWP have never help me or anyone into work. It’s all a con . I honestly hate the fact that i have paid my taxes all my life.
Yeah, it's all about keeping you poor. The rich want to gobble up everything and keep you poor. Disgraceful.
I agree. I had a job the same week I left school. And I had that job for 20 years until I was made redundant. I found another job within a week but signed myself up to some college courses in IT. It was unfortunate at 40 I had an accident with my back where I lost use of both legs until I had surgery . Now I have one leg that’s partially paralysed but I’m in chronic pain 24/7 in varying degrees. I’m living a hellish nightmare. The last thing people need when dealing with a disability is being hounded by the system or hearing yet again that they are targeting disabled people AGAIN. They are not just targeting the young so I’ve heard.
I’m trying to get into work and the DWP are bullying me and trying to stop the benefits because they messed up during the pandemic.
Everything that is needed to be declared has been because I work part and I still get punished for.
Since the Autumn budget I have been bullied by the DWP, over the past 6 months I had UC stopped twice now because I been struggling to get photo id and old bank statements. I informed them of everything and still get punished for it.
I have no help from the Job centre or DWP with finding work or solving the problem
When an struggling UK Worker earns about £1,700 a month after Tax.
Then he pays his £800 Rent,...leaving him £900 to last a Month.
Then he pays £120 Council Tax / Utilities £170 ,
Food £150 a person / £150 for Transport / £25 phone ,
£25 internet / Eating out £40,.... leaving just £225 to survive the WHOLE Month.
1 Emergency can push the person to Mental Breakdown.
Honestly I think you're under budget. Probably be left with less than that after bills etc. You are right though.your washer breaks you're nackered
Introduce a universal basic income . So no one falls into poverty. And employers are forced to pay a decent living wage. But we won’t get it because employers are more than happy to be subsidised by the benefit system. In reality it’s the employers who are claiming benefits and who are the parasitical scrounger’s. . They are the ones who should be sanctioned
What a wind-up! Peter is having a laugh
of course he is mentally unwell..thats why he has rang into this show1!!!
£500 a week! Jesus! No surprise he doesn't want to work.
£500 a Week on Benefit,....that don't sound Right
It isn't. When someone is on UC or JSA the payment is about £85 per week for a single person. They may of course receive additional payments towards their rent but that is something outside the control of the claimant as this reflects the cost of housing, and more often than not doesn't even fully cover it. The way the debate is framed is to make out that the claimant receives loads of 'free' cash but in reality most of it is swallowed up in rental payments.
He’s a plant to keep the government and media narrative going . That all claimants are scrounger and living the l good life. The media government and the DWP are greedy sick twisted organisations that pray on the vulnerable
Worry not - now that the DWP have been alerted there will be the appropriate sanctions......
I'm a benefits advisor, dealt with a client last week who is getting close to £600 per WEEK, not as uncommon as you think.
@@paulgrainger5225 That is MORE then I earn after Taxes are taken out of my Wages.
How was that possible?
Can you briefly give a Breakdown?
State pension is not a benefit, as they keep trying to make out, as if the government are doing you a favour. People have paid into it, therefore are entitled to be supported. I feel for those that didn't get a private pension to top it up.
We want to see Tax INCREASE on the Rich companies to fund Tax Cuts on the struggling Workers,
Why am I having to pay 33% on every pound I earn,....While Rishi Sunak pays less than 30%,.....How is that Fair?
Money is not meant to control people, rather it is meant to be put to work producing more money for you. You cannot build wealth without putting money in its rightful place........
That call sounds fake to me
£500 to do nothing outrage
As a mental health benefit advisor with 22 years experience, I can categorically confirm that benefit payments of £500 a week AND often more, for people with nental health problems is not uncommon, many of my clients end up with much more in benefits than I get for working full time. The system is absolutely ridiculous.
Benefits are worth less in real terms now than in 2010, do people forget that benefits were frozen completely from 2015 to 2020? Inflation ate away at it. The £20 UC uplift in covid should have been made permanent, as that closed the gap and brought benefits back to the old real term amount that it was under Labour.
Don’t know how the lady is getting £400 per fortnight ESA I just googled and top rate ESA is £138.20 per week
If she gets PIP at the higher rate I can believe it because she will be getting around £136 a week extra on her ESA in PIP premiums. £85 ESA plus £136 disability premiums times that by 4 weeks = £884 plus PIP she's getting nearly £1300 per 4 weeks. That's roughly what I was getting before I had no choice but to move to UC and lost about £600 from my monthly income because now my rent is part of my UC and council no longer pays it.
@@daviniarobbins9298 Thanks for clearing that up
Maybe like carer package more uni pals network more look after each other..2 tutors I saw got 11k each social care both worked pt..I had tbi kid and got no help rendered ill
The woman in the green top says she has a herniated disc and in extreme pain. If she was in extreme pain then she would not be able to sit there and talk in a normal voice. My problem started off with a herniated disc, this was just the start. Her disc must be slightly bulging which causes sciatica which can be painful. Doctors used to say bed rest is the best thing and I believe that to be the best thing. For some strange reason they started saying, you have to keep moving and doing things. Yes to stop stiffening up but you can do bed exercises for that. I suffered for 20 years on and off with my back. The only thing that would put it right was rest. If I tried to get on with normal things around the house, at work, it would get worse and worse and worse where my body forced me to lay down. After 3 days of rest, it would release and I’d be back to normal. As soon as I listened to a different doctor say to me carry on doing things and moving rounds and not listen to what my body was telling me. This is when things started me on a downward spiral. I had a bout of sciatica, worse than usual. I was in bed and woke up to turn over in bed and BOOM my disc came completely out. This was because I made it worse by carrying on doing things and not listening to my body and resting. The not only came out but it had burst and all the fluid had leaked out which try to the brain causing major headaches. This travels through the spinal cord. When this happened I felt a pain like never before, the sort of pain that gives you an ominous feeling that something is seriously wrong. The life drain from both my legs. They turned to jelly and looked like they had no bones or muscles in them. My partner had to come home from work and I had to drag myself along the floor with my hands and legs trailing behind me like a slug to get to the phone on the coffee table. . I was terrified . It took several attempts to explain to the doctor that something serious was wrong and I can’t make it to the surgery and resting or moving around isn’t going quite cut it. I was due for some physiotherapy at home. They came around and said “I can’t believe you’ve been left like this for 3 weeks” He rang for an ambulance right away. I was having to use a bucket because I couldn’t get up the stairs. To cut a long story short, I had to have the disc removed but it’s left one of my legs partially paralysed and the nerve pains I get is off the scale. I can go 8 days straight without being able to sleep or even close my eyes. I suffer from sleep exhaustion because of it. I hallucinate, can barely get to the bathroom on crutches. I have left the house in years. I have no quality of life. So this woman in the green top here is treading on a thin line saying she has an herniated disc but she wants to go and contribute to society by working even though she’s in extreme pain. I’m probably right in thinking that she’s found a medication that takes her pain away. Sadly for nerve pain there isn’t. It too complex to treat. It travels down from my back to my leg . Medication for nerve pain only works for 50% of people. Not one even touched mine and I’ve tried every one out there. Even CBD oil doesn’t do a thing. Doctors have told me if the nerve is damaged and hasn’t grown back. Which is what has happened when the disc trapped the nerve, it’s not going to so I’ll just have to live with it. And it had been 5 years at that time. It’s been 15 years now and nothing has changed. I’m suffering badly. So when I hear that yet again the government are targeting disabled people AGAIN. It makes me sick because the ones that do abuse the system make it more difficult for the people who are genuine and need the help. I have depression and anxiety because of what I’m dealing with and feel incredibly vulnerable when I keep hearing negativity about benefits on the news every day. We have enough to deal with as it is.
Of cause it is two small. A single person in rented accommodation £758. Per month . - £445 rent -£140 utilities £50 mobile and internet that you have to have in order to even claim universal discredited. Yes I said discredited because that’s what it is. £638. £123 left over per month for food clothing transport and all the other expenses that crop up. Even if you have worked for 40 years plus or never worked it’s the same. Makes me wish I’d never worked or paid my taxes
I work 45 hours a week and i don't take home £500 a week. Utterly depressing.
How's that even possible? May I ask what job you do?
@@JB-wy8fc Im assuming he means after Tax/NI contributions, etc
Saira Khan was so loud and Kevin could hardly get a word in. I found her difficult to watch.
Is she the younger version of Carole Malone?
CARERS THE FREE SLAVE TRADE ARE PUNISHED LIVING ON LESS THAN 100 QUID A WEEK.
Free funerals
Compassion fund for limited time.
No other benefits except disability support.
Pensions must be removed from benefits system.
It is an entitlement
The real issue being ignored right now for some reason is price gouging. There is significant price gouging going on right now by large multinationals such as energy companies and others. They are all posting massive profits, this information is freely accessible.
Think the call is probably genuine! Some people know how to work the system However, can’t understand why he would expose himself on tv like that! Somebody’s going to recognise his voice!
If you are Bulgarian you get £50 million.
£500 A WEEK!!! For 15yrs!!! Probably should've kept that quiet!!! Who earns that?
Jo from Sheffield- 'people can't work if they are in chronic pain on NHS waiting lists for an operation or if they have mental health issues that require non-existant services'
Jeremy Vine- moves quickly on to the next caller
Saira "Languishing on benefits is not levelling up" does she only use soundbites direct from Tory HQ?
Benefits going up 6.8%. It is not enough. I won't see that increase until nearly the end of May due to the way Universal Credit works. The problem is my rent has just gone up a little over 7% so any increase in my benefits is completely wiped out straight away because the water rates is part of my rent and the Housing Element of Universal Credit doesn't cover it. Also broadband/phone bill has gone up 7% per month.
I am also on the standard daily living rate of PIP due to my autism. That's an insulting amount of money. Since moving from legacy benefits to Universal Credit I am actually worse off to the tune of some £300 a month because I was getting PIP premiums as part of my Income Support benefit. I get some transitional element payment but there is a shortfall compared to before. I have asked why I am not getting the transitional disability premium of £172 a month but got had an answer back yet.
A real benefits increase would be inflation plus 3% per year.
In other words the system helps the more irresponsible people sounds about right
does it ffyc. Although it certainly helps the millionaire/ billionaire tory types. Wish I could sort out non-dom status or a Cayman island account eh!
i speak on my behalf i would love to go back to work but my diablement mkes me restrcte
😅😅😅
Again in English?
Peter is a plant
your group are really just a jerry springer poke the bear and laugh at the callers fake show fake dibate
In that case your comment is fake
People on the old state pension only get the higher amount of the rise on part of their pension the other part is at the same rise as other benefits.
drug addicts and alcoholics should not get benefits
All your hear about is benefits now a days
Big neighbour should have no sympathy for him then
Mental health. New bad back
this shows full of middle class people getting loads of money for being depressed
the vast majority on benefits get less than a few hundred a month
He is a p… taker
Made up about the neighbour
Love Kevin ❤️
HES NOT PAYING RENT
HES NOT PAYING POLL TAX
HES RECEIVING ESA ON TOP
HE PICKING UP WHAT GRANTS ARE GOUNG .HES NOT HONEST HES DOING ALL RIGHT JACK AS SOLO. IF HE PAID HIS WAY LIKE CARERS .PENSIONERS HED SING ANOTHER TUNE.DOES HE PAY £1400RENT NO COUNCIL PAYS MORTGAGED HOUSING OR REHOUSE YOU IF CANT PAY
A woman from Sheffield to sum it up for you! You lot live in lala land.
So she can't work because of physical health issues but has the ability to do volunteering door to door?
She should have her benefits taken away immediately.
You are exactly what's wrong with the system. Maybe getting out a couple hours a day keeps her sane
@@JB-wy8fc I'm not the one on benefits.
I'm the caller. ESA with SDA £460 per fortnight. PIP £550 per month. Housing Benefit £425 pm. Free prescriptions. No council tax. Free dental care and a £1500 support package last year. Not fake!
Ain’t you lucky. Not all benefit claimants are treated so well. Are you sure you haven’t got a brother who works as a manager. At DWP. Or maybe you’re part of the gang who ripped off the tax payers for millions. But come to think of it you can’t be one of them they’ve been caught. So I guess you got a brother working for the most hated institution in the country
again jermy smiles when woman says in homeless shelter with heroin addicts n such
Who's Jermy?
it's liveable with cutbacks. shop around for cheaper prices, if possible. while i'm here... child & housing benefit should be eradicated, if not massively reduced. why should taxpayers fund other peoples children and/ or large houses ? i would say, move people to a permanent caravan/ tent sight and/ or give the children up for adoption/ foster care. i'm honoured to have great-niece (that i very rarely see)... the mother was out clubbing. crux of the story, the mothers' mother has 7 children and lives on benefits. that 'attitude' has been passed to the mother of my 'great-niece'. get it ?
Scrap the benefit system.
May I ask why?
@@blackrider7631cause the entire system is broken. Not just the benefit system but the entire government system needs rebuilt from scratch
Benefits system was supposed to be a safety net NOT A LIFESTYLE CHOICE if you can work you should work