Benefits Scroungers Can Now Use Their Sky HD Boxes Or Games Consoles To Check Out Claims

14th January 2014

Maybe there should be an iphone and ipad app, for that!

If they have a 3d TV, will it be in 3d?


Millions of people who do not have internet access in their homes can now find information about Universal Credit (UC) and finding work by hitting the red button on their TV remote control.

The new Universal Credit information channels have now seen more than 30,000 hits since they were launched at the end of October, according to digital content provider Looking Local.

The new services, by the Department for Work and Pensions in partnership with Looking Local, have been designed to give the 7 million adults who do not have home internet, access to important information about the new benefit.

The aim is to give the public as much choice as possible over how they receive information.

Minister for Welfare Reform Lord Freud said:


“As we continue with the rollout of Universal Credit, increasing numbers of people will need to know how it affects them and how to prepare.

“Working with Looking Local, we have ensured as many tools as possible exist for people to find out everything they need to know about the easier to understand and more flexible benefit that is Universal Credit.

“We are also making sure Universal Credit is an opportunity for people to build online skills, so they can look for work and benefit from what the online world offers for 21st century life.”


https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universal-credit-on-the-red-button

I dont get why people are slagging this off - anyone who looks on freecycle will find CRT TVs and sky boxes for nothing - so it costs nothing to get a TV with red button access.

It is intended to give people the easiest possible access to UC which I firmly believe are going to change the whole concept of being on benefits and not working.

I mean as I have said elsewhere a family on £35k with 3 children currently get child tax credit so they will get universal credit instead - are we objecting to them having a sky box? Meanwhile the bloke who is currently unemployed and does not bother taking the temporary part time job because he will only keep £10 of his earnings and have masses of paperwork to do as well as changes in his benefit taking weeks to sort out with him in the dark as to when they will be sorted will know that he will keep at least £56 of his earnings and all he has to do is use the red button to declare it and it will be sorted near enough instantly.

I think that the deliberately unemployed shouldn't have to actually do any work to claim benefits.

They should be visited at home. by appointment. by a member of staff from the DWP so they don't have to miss time in the pub.

Each should have a financial adviser and a personal shopper to get all the 3D TVs Sky systems latest versions of course.

Each should be assigned a taxpayer to provide extra funds ideally someone who works over 60 hours per week to keep the celestial balance. As they do sweet FA they can offset the extra activity of the enterprising keeping the lefty Chee in balance.

It should be made illegal for a worker to complain about the indolent and extra fines should be loaded upon those workers who do complain. The proceeds of those fines should be directed to those claimants who have been particularly indolent in the last year.

Those people working over 60 hours should have their homes confiscated as they are not at home long enough to enjoy them. There homes will be given to the indolent who will sleep there at least 12 hours to get rid of that Carlsberg Special Brew Hangover. (Scatman?)

The indolent should be encouraged to eat as many takeaways as possible to place a extra burden on the NHS to make sure they get more than their fair share of resources.

Workers struggling with health conditions caused by stress should discouraged from using he NHS its their own fault. Naturally the se of Private health insurance should be double taxed how dare they.

Schools with particularly good academic records must be populated with particulalrly unpleasant offspring of the indolent to bring down the overall record of that school to stop the growing gap.

Compulsory lessons in benefit studies should replace careers advice to ensure there s no elitism in the school. Particularly gifted children should be discouraged from overt diligence by regular beatings from the indolents offspring. Teachers will assist with these beatings.

Have I missed anything out of this Scatman and Dobbin Utopia?

BigAndy9 wrote:14th January 2014

Maybe there should be an iphone and ipad app, for that!

If they have a 3d TV, will it be in 3d?


Millions of people who do not have internet access in their homes can now find information about Universal Credit (UC) and finding work by hitting the red button on their TV remote control.

The new Universal Credit information channels have now seen more than 30,000 hits since they were launched at the end of October, according to digital content provider Looking Local.

The new services, by the Department for Work and Pensions in partnership with Looking Local, have been designed to give the 7 million adults who do not have home internet, access to important information about the new benefit.

The aim is to give the public as much choice as possible over how they receive information.

Minister for Welfare Reform Lord Freud said:


“As we continue with the rollout of Universal Credit, increasing numbers of people will need to know how it affects them and how to prepare.

“Working with Looking Local, we have ensured as many tools as possible exist for people to find out everything they need to know about the easier to understand and more flexible benefit that is Universal Credit.

“We are also making sure Universal Credit is an opportunity for people to build online skills, so they can look for work and benefit from what the online world offers for 21st century life.”


https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universal-credit-on-the-red-button

The internet is a vital tool in helping people to find work.