There isn't one, but benefits are means tested.... if the government thinks you have the means to support yourself it means you get eff all. I think you can have, and I don't know the exact figure, around ?8k in the bank without losing any benefit? I don't have a problem with lottery winners, good on them for getting the money, all's good. However if I spend all my wages on pay day I don't expect the benefits system to give me some cash for the rest of the month because I spent the money I had. I hasten to add that I don't have a problem with anyone needing help and getting benefits when there is a need either, I like most other people pay taxes in part for that safety net to be in place.
They won the equivalent of 2 years worth of the average wage (more than most people get working all the hours in a day, and oddly enough more than a junior doctors basic pay - but that's another thread) I would have thought wisely spent it would have last around 2 years, or longer had they got jobs. Instead they spent it in 8 months, so spent just over ?6k a month, without thinking anything of the future and in the hope that the benefits system would just give them more money when it ran out. Anyone with any sense knows, first priority with money is to ensure you have somewhere to live and something to eat. Epic fail on their part.
They won the equivalent of 2 years worth of the average wage (more than most people get working all the hours in a day, and oddly enough more than a junior doctors basic pay - but that's another thread) I would have thought wisely spent it would have last around 2 years, or longer had they got jobs. Instead they spent it in 8 months, so spent just over ?6k a month, without thinking anything of the future and in the hope that the benefits system would just give them more money when it ran out. Anyone with any sense knows, first priority with money is to ensure you have somewhere to live and something to eat. Epic fail on their part.
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