State Pays You £100 To Split From Your Spouse
DID you know that you’d be better off living apart from your spouse?
As the Mail’s front-page headline announces: “Benefit rules mean three in four ordinary families would be better off living apart.”
How much? “£100 FROM THE STATE IF YOU SPLIT UP.”
Old Mr Anorak says that all things considered, Mai Ling should pack her bags and only attend to her matrimonial duties at meal times and when Anorak Towers needs righting after one of his AGMS with the Thai women’s Ping-Pong Consortium he heads…
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
That looks suspiciously like an Australian cricket shirt in the photo.
Is this photographic evidence of the terrible toll that drugs have taken on Shane Warne?
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Mic, agreed, its terribly aging , and shrivelled his nuts right up to where he keeps ovaries…
What rate is the £100 paid, weekly. monthly or yearly? We must be told
March 4th, 2008 at 12:13 am
June - The £100 is at a “weekly” rate
March 4th, 2008 at 9:28 am
this is true! When with my other half we scraped by on our meagre wages and top ups. when we split up, they offered my much more money than we had both ever earned! where is the incentive to work? I would be worse off working full time than if I didn’t work at all.