Alcoholics on benefits-is it fair that i know someone who has been on benefits 7 yrs?

jpturboprop

nope, not fair. Probaly not even legal. Call your department of social services

jodman01us

Maybe you should turn him in. Living off of others is a terrible thing that should NOT continue!!

nvedukatr

Vote for Hillary. I'm sure she has some plan to fix that.

Mr. Know It All

Thank you; I have YET to meet a welfare recipient that I feel really deserves it....I'm not talking about the disabled or the elderly.

guitarman

What he probably needs is some kind of help for his alcoholism. Yes, citizens do take advantage of welfare in the U.S. But not as much as corporations take advantage of welfare!!! lol

JENNIFER W

yes something should be done about it , but no nothing will be done about it...its america...the middle class and rich pay for the poor to have babies and stay high and drunk

new gardener

Maybe not fair- for you--works for him.

afterburner

kubay1999

It is fair....his income is low enough to qualify for assistance. Its his decision how he wants to spend it. Unfortunate for tax payers but the only way to make it fair is to live in poverty yourself to qualify for your own assistance. It all comes down to quality of life, most people want to do good for themselves, others just don't care.

marlenekay4

I have known people who do this and I dont agree with it. Alcoholism and drug addiction should not be considered a disablility. They were choices that the people made.

kNOTaLIAwyR

/ You could report him, and accept whatever the outcome is.

LalaBaby

People should be worried about the more important things like TRILLIONS of dollars being used to kill more human beings on a hoax "war". That's the money to be worried about, not some few hundred bucks a month being spent on someones personal addiction. Come on.

scottie

he might be a veteran of the military or something like that . someone who have problems sick etc.i say mind your own business leave that person along the government is way into our personal business as it is

Hipolito M

Tonya W

that person is totally wrong i herdly get any help and im going to collage full time plus a single mom with 2 kids its not right or fair

Lynne D

If he lives in a council apartment, you may want to ask who is actually getting the MONEY for it. This drunk is just getting a place to live. Someone owns that land and gets the actual rent for it.

As for council taxes, how much would you get out of him if he was homeless? He'd still be using the same roads and same water supply you'd be using. Walking on the same sidewalks.

However, if he were homeless, he could ostensibly wind up costing society even more than he does now. He could be a public nuisance, driving down lease values for those with private leases in the area. He'd get sick much more often, requiring medical care even more than he does now. He'd be a public danger on alcohol AND sleep deprivation - taking up more police attention.

In my country, not every state considers being an addict a "disability". In fact, few do. The result is that our drunks and drug addicts wind up homeless. They take up emergency rooms when they get hurt, and we don't have a large national insurance policy covering that. Our local taxes do. They wind up bothering pedestrians, begging for money. They wind up acting nearly insane when they're high, because they can't get actual sleep on the street and the sleep deprivation drives them to distraction.

I don't consider making them homeless and penniless a solution that is best for society. I can tell you from direct witnessing it doesn't make them stop drugs or booze either.

Croix du Sud/Southern Cross

dob in a bludger, remember its your money.Nothing wrong with whistle blowers.

Hillary

Unfortunately, people who receive government benefits aren't told how to spend it. Maybe you could mind your own business.

Jackie P

It happens here, too. I know a bunch of people who are on "disability" because they either are drinking and doing drugs all the time or they are eating themselves to death. So fat, they can barely walk.... "Oh I have a bad back and legs, I can't work"

Yep, they are put up in a tax-payer paid for apartment, and given money every month too.

blood rose

i agree it is ridiculous. but there are too many people doing that.... it's hard to pick out all of them because some complain about "back pain" because its something that cant be disproved.

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