Lottery winners demand benefits again after spending ?50k in eight months

[super jumbe]

Guernsey couple ask for income support and housing benefit as they face eviction after spending windfall on designer clothes, holidays and 50-inch TV

A couple on benefits who won ?50,000 in a lottery spent it all in eight months and are now demanding state handouts again.

Unemployed Jamie and Abbie Hort scooped the windfall at Christmas 2014, but had blown it all by buying designer clothes, holidays, new furniture and a giant TV for their flat.

The couple - who admit they have been "silly" with the winnings, but say they "deserved to buy nice stuff" - now face eviction and are asking for income support and housing benefit.

However, officials are refusing to hand their benefits back and the couple say they have had the "worst Christmas ever".

"They want to see receipts from the statements as they don't believe all the money has gone. The ?50,000 went in eight months, but they don't believe us.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ht-months.html

[ifred]

Dear George Ossie can I have ?80000 in state handout as obviously ?50 grand is not enough to live on

[super jumbe]

RULLS ARE RULLA, ok they young couples and blow 50 grand but they are entitle to benefits under the DHSS rules providing they give them written statements, receipts, lost in casino, horses I can not see any thing wrong, just like any tom dick and Henry from moon comes in uk gets benefits, why they can not be paid!!!

[GastonJ]

Maybe they should have bought a tent, since buying other crap was obviously a priority over paying minor things lile rent to keep a roof over their heads. I'd have no sympathy with them at all. They won 2 tiems teh average wage and spent it because "they deserved to buy nice stuff". Well now they'll find out what it's like to be at teh opposite end of the scale and get nothing. I do hope they don't get anything for 2 years.

[gmb45]

a tart n a chav what do ya expect

[ifred]

Bet they have a job filling in the application form.

[Meat-Head]

Serves them right, fair cop spending say first ?3000 but beyond that shiuld have saved it, lived off t' intrest.

then afain tgey added to tgeud lical econoney, just hole they dudnt waste it in an iSh1t

[gc1966]

have they not got 50 grand of goods they can take down to cash converters?
that should get the rent money for a while

[ifred]

have they not got 50 grand of goods they can take down to cash converters? that should get the rent money for a while

They probably lost the remote for the TV, broke the furniture and worn the clothes .......cash converter price the lot ?72.85p

[rds60h]

The ruling that is barring them from getting benefits is that they will have made themselves purposely homeless by spending the money. Others that fall into this category are couples who separate or divorce..............imagine a scenario where a wife is having an affair and wants husband to move out, if he does then he has made himself "purposely homeless".
But what I find strange is that migrants are being offered social housing..............Can anyone honestly believe that they were all without anywhere to live in the country of their origin ? also what about the costs of them moving over here in the first place, if they had been homeless in their country of origin would that have not paid for housing there ?
Yet, they do not appear to have to prove having made themselves "purposely homeless"..................when will this country realise they are discriminating against the people born here.

[Meat-Head]

Thats wrong a man leaving being classed as purposly homelezz

[Wolfpack]

Maybe 50K could of got these losers some type of job training but then again they don't want a job. I would be ashamed begging for a handout. The Government needs to shame people like them. Bring back food stamps and make them use a special line for their use only. You would see how many would be embarrassed. I know some people are legit but most are scammers.

[Meat-Head]

Deffo should change the lotto rules, automatically 15% of the wonga locked in bank 10 years

[maca]

Can someone tell me the rule when winning on the lottery your not allowed to spend it ??

[super jumbe]

Only thing they had to do was not to tell the DHSS about the winnings and would have carried on getting the benefits they would not have been in the position they are today…and I would have thought I can not see any deferent between spending benefit money / lottery money.