Online petition to remove the savings cap

It would be wiser to raise the savings cap with inflation. It must be 15 years or more since the present rate was set in stone. Currently, a claimant on means-tested benefits cannot save for expensive equipment or spend from a tiny savings pot without beggering themselves. However, Joe Public would be on the Daily Mail forum grousing before you could say 1 %.

THIS SAVINGS CAP DOES NOT HELP DISABLED PEOPLE WHE THEY RECEIVE DLA OR PIP WHICH CAN BE COUNTED AS SAVINGS IF THE MONEY FROM IT TAKES THEM OVER THEIR BENEFIT SAVINGS LIMIT OF EITHER 6000 POUNDS OR 10,000 POUNDS IF THEY ARE OVER 65YEARS OLD SUCH AS MYSELF AGED 80 YEARS OLD

Unfortunately some people in receipt of state benefits, they have lost all perspective and sense of self awareness. I will go as far as to say that some think the world revolves around them.

Having driven buses for many years, around some very rough council 'schemes', i have seen and heard so from the 'never worked, and never will'. It used to amaze me how much disposible income some had - foreign holidays, designer clothing etc.

Some of them used to taunt me, and i'm sure other drivers, about us being mugs doing our job. The same individuals boasted loudly about being better off not working, and what load of lies they had or were about to tell the staff at the job centre. Quite sickening really.

It used to double sicken me, as i was newly diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and as well as keeping this diagnosis from my employer, i was starting to suffer muscle spasms and cramp.

What sort of things do you spend money on out of interest?

I only spend money on rent, bills (water/electric/internet) and a grocery delivery once a week. What I haven't got during the week I have to go without. Can't drive anymore, so no travel costs. Don't have space to buy items that need storing. Don't have a garden so can't even buy plants to add a bit of colour to this miserable existence.

Personally I do have hundreds spare at the end of most months. Ironically, part of that comes from the fact I get more money since becoming housebound than when I was driving and needed it for fuel and car maintenance! 🙄

Thank you. That is interesting to compare with. Probably only around £100-£150 more on regular outgoings per month outgoings than me. (I don't have any subscriptions, don't vape/smoke and don't have mobile phone or taxi costs).

The biggest difference looks like the support costs. I can't really use my PIP for anything, so that's where most of my savings come from. If yours are being spent on support, you should (hopefully!) be getting much more from that than just having savings in the bank.

The benefit swindlers have gone up market now in my town, they use taxi's.... I know a few taxi drivers and they tell me the stories. They get a taxi, go to the food bank, then get dropped off at the pub paying with £20 notes. One pub takes the beer tokens (yes £27 a day it was) and there are parked outside the pub at least 10 mobility scooters.... One lady taxi driver puts the swindlers out of her car.... Young lass bragging last Christmas I got Christmas sorted early December, not bad on benefits… The brakes were slammed on and she was put out of the car. Taxi driver yesterday told me a family opposite to her don't work, none of them, but go on four holidays a year to Turkey. A son is now 40 and has motorbikes.... Young don't want a job in my town because you are better off on the sick than the National Living wage.... Proved by a professional organisation working on behalf of the government, so Starmer and the Accounts Clerk are well aware. That is why LCWRA is or is going to be stopped for under 22's. A Roofer wanted more workers and ended up not getting anyone, they turned up at the interviews stating, I don't like ladders or heights.... Just going through the procedure for UC... Fact this...

The changes to Motability is down to abuse I think, especially the mileage reduction which has halved the original miles you could do per year. Motability will not bother the cars will be worth more with less miles on the clock! Told another one yesterday, son gets mother to get the motability car with her enhanced payment, he pays her back the money and has full use of the car..… This person is known by the teller.… I don't know anyone that has had a Motability car that has used it per the rules.... I could go on, but working people want something done about it now and I fully understand while their wages disappear due to tax and NI contributions. Welfare is now No1 priority I think.

Point taken and there are many like you but you have to accept there are people that do not want to work and since the lockdowns where people experienced not working it has got worse. Some also get paid that do some work cash in hand, gone on for years with benefits, and hard to prove. You need all your money because of all your disabilities, some of the workshy are nowhere near as bad as you. What I have typed above in all my posts is fact. I have no reason to make it up. It is information that has come my way over the last few years, some I have seen for myself and told of others by trusted people I know. The current outcry over benefits in this country proves all this too!