Let me introduce you to a fabulous lady named Tamsyn Wood, a mum to four children who had the world at her feet, that was until her husband suffered a severe brain injury, leaving him blind and severely disabled; thanks to our screwed up benefit system this mum is now struggling to even feed her children, yes you guessed it, her benefits have now been cut.
It took a community of blogging mothers to rally together to complain and voice as much noise as they could to get Tamsyn back into the system, but for me that’s not good enough. The suffering and worry that the system brought onto this mother is never going to be justified.
“The benefits system provides practical help and financial support if you are unemployed and looking for work. It also provides you with additional income when your earnings are low, if you are bringing up children, are retired, care for someone, are ill or have a disability.”
The benefit system failed Tamsyn, like it does so many. Where was the support to this family?
Our benefit system sucks, Chancellor George Osborne plans to cut an extra £10bn from the benefits budget. Vowing to cut the benefit system by an extra £10bn is not only threatening the livelihood of Tamsyn & Alex but also of the thousands of others who can’t be heard.
Far too many are conning the system and this is where the problem arise, yet it is those that do qualify and desperately need the support that become the targets. We don’t all con the system, some of us have no other choice but to need this help to survive.
This is something very much close to my own heart, I have personally faced the systems prejudiced and you can read about my own fight with The Job Centre & Back To Work Interviews For The Mentally post in regards to how they treat mentally ill claimants.
Not all claimants of benefits need them, if you are one of those then I ask you to stop and think about that. The system is there for those like Tamsyn who desperately need it, do you really need to be claiming?
A mother of 4 with a disabled husband is hardly a benefit scrounger; she’s a remarkable woman trying to hold her family together during a traumatic time. Perhaps someone from the Job Centre could pop around for coffee and care for her husband and her children so she can go and do a bit of shopping, maybe then they will see what happens in the real world.
Tamsyn has received the devastating news that Alex’s rehabilitation funding is to be CUT also. If this is not rectified Alex will be transferred to a care home.
Let’s take a loving husband and father away from his home, his wife and his children and let’s stick him in some care home because we can’t fund him?
WE CANT FUND HIM?
What type of country do we live in? We have a benefits system that is there to help people like Tamsyn, so where is the help?
I urge you all to support me in helping Tamsyn and many other mothers like her fighting a system that is ran by morons.
You can join in the Twitter party tonight to help raise awareness at 8.30pm using the hashtag#Shouting4Tamsyn
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Thank you Amanda x
no probs will share wit all my fb friends x
Singed if my phones worked xx
Thank you Zoe x
George Osborne plans to cut an extra £10bn from the benefits budget – help us fight back #Shouting4Tamsyn http://t.co/yQTBSrmg
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Thanks Titch xxx dont forget to share on Facebook too x
I will sign now, its bloody discusting, how are people meant to live, while I agree with stoppin people having kids for the benefits, what about those genuinly in need of them? I have 4 kids and am on benefits temperarily thru no fault of my own, how are we meant to live? If they want to save money try targeting the rich who have god knows how many houses or even capping the lotto so it cant go over a certain amount then if its not won put it back into the country!!
Thank you so much – please also hit the share on facebook – also You can join in the Twitter party tonight to help raise awareness at 8.30pm using the hashtag#Shouting4Tamsyn
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Thank you so much – please also hit the share to facebook button- also You can join me in the Twitter party tonight to help raise awareness at 8.30pm using the hashtag#Shouting4Tamsyn
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Thank you Michelle x
Signed and shared its a disgrace by all means stop theres that have no intention to work or those that defraud the system but not those who are genuine
Signed for my & my OH will be shared on all our profiles x
makes me ashamed to live in this country!
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signed and shared hun! too damn right we need to be heard, it’s bloody disgraceful x
Ok completely agree with the scroungers part n that mums out there that actually need the help….I’m going to put this out there cos I really believe this and I’m sorry if this offends anyone but sometimes we don’t know how lucky we are in GBR. WE HAVE ONE OF THE BEST BENEFITS SYSTEM IN THE WORLD. Take a look in lots of other countrys that have nothing n scavenge around in slums…..(sense why we have so many immagrents). Also how many of us spend thirty pound a wk on fags or booze or both……thirty that could be well spent on other things. I gave up smoking when I was pregnant n haven’t started up. Please don’t have a go at me this is just what I feel. I hope in all honesty that this system cut does not happen but I think in all honesty I don’t think they are going to stop xxxxxX
Ps not sure were to sign xx
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And they wonder why everyone slags the government x