UK Poverty - what does it mean?

[AbortedBabysInMakeUp]

Changes from 1 April 2011

From 1 April 2011 the rates for Local Housing Allowance will be reduced across the country:

Weekly excess

The maximum £15 weekly excess that some customers can get will be removed.

Limits on payments

A limit will be introduced so that Local Housing Allowance does not exceed:

£250 a week for a one bedroom property (including shared accommodation)

£290 a week for a two bedroom property

£340 a week for a three bedroom property

£400 a week for a four bedroom property

[johammbass]

Lol, America's "poor" are rich compared to these guys. Socialism fails, as usual

[Shukria123]

and then they wonder why they riot...

[MrMelodynelson]

that make me....sick. Portugal and Greece is the best defenition for the meaning of poverty in Europe..(A poor man in UK, is a sick man-with a mental disorder...."Icecream after scool"?).....because most part of portugueses goes to other country (UK TOO!!) and ----------->that is what poverty means and does!!

[ClarksonsinUSA]

What seems odd to me,since the UK has to few jobs????Why is the mass immigration from outside the UK allowed....It makes the situation worse....

[ShinEmperor]

We are conditioned to believe that "hard work = success" in the west but it's a myth. In fact, there are actual poor in modern nations as well. Just do a quick google search of the term "Working poor" and there are examples of hard working people who are homeless and work. Wages haven't moved in decades and the cost of living has soared, there is poverty in the west. The simple truth is that the rich get richer, the middle class get squeezed and fall into poverty and the poor die.

[jonesgerard]

I haven'tt lived in England for 40 years but this is NOT poverty.

Someone is just throwing the word around to enable self pity and laziness.

Working 40 hrs a week is not working hard.

Pull your heads out of your rears and pull yourselves up.

[469jasper]

@jonesgerard a typical fascist american yes there is actually poverty in England and in the united states and in Canada all over the world just because people are poor does not make them lazy if it wasn't for the poor there would be no rich the poor people are just bate for the rich and middle class wake up and pull your head out of your ass.

[hooplemott]

Oh I get it..... Oxfam, the ones who are slating us cos we dont send enough cash abroad... yeah good sense. You wont get a red cent off me anymore! Post it or not!

[hooplemott]

Hang on, this cant be right, we are one of the wealthiest countries in the world because we send loads of money abroad to help the 'poor' dont we?

[469jasper]

@hooplemott the rich get richer the poor get poorer if it was for the poor there would be no rich and middleclass If I had billions of dollars I would take all of the poor people from Canada and the states and the Uk and buy land somewhere in the world where all the poor people would unite make there own country

[hktweepopper]

come to Hong Kong see what is poverty!!!!

[LabRat6619]

Britain is a Western country apparently, but for many its more like bloody Africa. Many just exist, I see it many times in my job where I go into houses.

If you can just exist, you could be better of dead!

[uel786]

it's odd how Britain lavishes all mamor of assistance to assylum seekers and offers less help to British citizens.

[takeachillpill2010]

Too bad, that is nothing compared to what poverty i live in, I got this computer on the streets and i picked it up and add more gadgets to it.

[469jasper]

@takeachillpill2010 right on

[tricitytiara]

poverty is real in the uk, i work 40 hours per week, last month after i paid my bills, rent, council tax, tv licence, gas, electric, i was left with £30.00 for the month, my fares to work are £40.00 per month! wtf is going on? We live on my sons incapacity benefit,( he is sick) poverty if REAL.

[Scrabbler27]

I understand poverty is real and hard in the UK. I try my best to save money and last year I saved £400 ON BUS FARE MONEY JUST BY BIKING IT UPHILL AND DOWNHILL TO WORK. (7 MILE ROUND TRIP)

[geisterbahn1]

@tricitytiara sorry to here that !. same here ,imaplumber old school.and id be better off on benefits.i need specs/cant sfford em. i need to go to the dentist /cant sfford the extra cash i have topay .i dont drink or smoke and get my clothe fro the old clothes bin by Tesco .Your sons benefits will soon be abolished under the new ESA propagnda from new labour .they are introducing a fit note to phase out the sick note. crap country! im off back to Spain .better live in poverty in the sun

[spotswood4444]

@tricitytiara Actually the word POVERTY means that you have no food and little clothing, also it means that you have no home of your own. POVERTY was like this in Britain up to 1930 ish. People miss use the word POVERTY in Britain today. Yes people are sometimes hard up, but they are NOT in POVERTY. You say that you pay for a TV licence, and Gas and Electricity, that is NOT POVERTY.

I am sorry if you are struggling, but you are NOT in POVERTY. No one is in Britain, it does not exist in 2010.

[finehomemadewine]

@spotswood4444 Actually POVERTY in sociological definition is: "That you cannot afford the same as people around". So yes, it is so called "relative poverty". But trully it is still poverty- because you cannot go without e.g. paying for electricity or rent in UK, or you get sick and will not have clean clothes and will not be able to go to work (or seak work) to do at least the bit for yourself. And than there is the absolute poverty defined as living under 1dollar a day and yes it is in UK too.

[469jasper]

@spotswood4444 relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or a country

[taniaarthur]

I am from Mexico

this looks like a parody, ice cream, cinema...

here is medicine, shoes and babies live on cardboard boxes, can someone tell me what is poverty in there? is it really not going to the cinema?

really?

[philosophyteacher]

i believe it's called relative poverty and we have a welfare state here which you don't have in Mexico, so it's hard to compare the two

[TheUKBwoi]

naah breh this aint poverty, poverty is what im living in. i live in a 2 bedroom flat, shared with 5 other people. we get around 60 pound a month for food after bills, tax and debt. our water metre keeps fucking up so we gotta lend next doors water, do you know how imbarrising that is. ive had the same pair of trainers since february and most of my clothes are from christmas. then to top it all off i live an area filled with drugs, guns, knifes and gangs. thats the poverty i live in bra.

[TheUKBwoi]

oh yeah and if your wondering why i got this computer, my mum won 5gs on a scratch card. to me thats like 5million for sum.

[trippy119]

@taniaarthur yes it is, because were supposed one of the wealthiest nations in world, the disparities in wealth are huge in the uk, its a differant kind of poverty to the poorer nations. poverty over here is having to live where people piss in the street & kick the fuck out of your kids, having no car or money to enjoy the finer things in life, not being able to eat out or have a day out because the cost of living is so expensive and a minimum wage means your even worse off than the dole!!

[paulflynnmp]

This is not poverty as I knew it as a child in the thirties or as experienced by billions of people in the developing world

[kboss2011]

sad

[unsystematic7]

Why not look at a long term goal to concur poverty for good: monetary reform (where money isnt debt)

Watch either one of these on YouTube to educate yourself on how the world is slaves to these

National banks and how 3rd world suffers as well:

Money as Debt

Zeitgeist Addendum

Money Masters