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Britain's laziest woman [on dole for 16 YEARS, pocketed £30,000 in benefits!]
The Sun ^ | February 21, 2004 | The Sun

Posted on 02/21/2004 4:46:16 AM PST by ejdrapes

Britain's laziest woman
Super-sponger ... Susan

By ALASTAIR TAYLOR

THE laziest woman in Britain is exposed by The Sun today.

Bone idle Susan Moore has finally had her benefits stopped after an astonishing 16 YEARS on the dole.

Super-sponger Susan, 34, has not done a day’s work since dropping out of college in 1988.

But amazingly, she insists she isn’t lazy — and is appealing against the decision to stop her claiming £65-a-week Jobseeker’s Allowance.

Susan, who says she needs to RELAX at weekends, has never even been for a job interview — and turned down work at a supermarket because it was five miles away.

But yesterday she said: “I don’t see why I shouldn’t get Jobseeker’s Allowance. I’m not a scrounger, I want to work but nothing suitable’s come up.”

Her local Jobcentre currently has 260 vacancies on its books, and the local paper is packed with 230 job ads. But skiver Susan reckons none are right for her.

Since abandoning college she has pocketed £30,000 in benefits. But the handouts were finally stopped when she quit a New Deal course designed to help her find a job.


Dependent ... Susan now lives on mum Jennifer's benefit


To ensure waster Susan would attend the course — held 20 miles away — Jobcentre staff paid for a taxi to take her to the train station each morning, and also paid her rail fare.

But when the taxi didn’t turn up one day, she simply packed the course in.

Susan, of Burythorpe, North Yorks, moaned: “I find it hard to travel. I can’t drive, there are no buses to speak of and taxis are expensive.

“I’d like to work in the village where I live, but we have no post office or shop and I have asked at the pub but there is nothing there.

Shop a sponger

THE Sun wants your help to track down Britain’s worst scroungers. If you know a waster like Susan, give our SHOP A SPONGER HOTLINE a call between 9am and 6pm today on: 020 7782 4105 (London) or 0161 935 5316 (Manchester).

“Some people brand me lazy and a scrounger, but I am not. I just haven’t been given a chance.”

Yesterday we offered Susan the opportunity to make a few quid over the weekend by manning a “Shop a Sponger” phone line we have set up.

But she immediately turned us down, without even asking how much we were paying.

She said: “I don’t fancy travelling to London. I shop on a Saturday, and on Sunday I sit at home and relax a bit.”

Susan lives with divorced mum Jennifer, 58.

The pair are surviving on the £51-a-week Jobseeker’s Allowance paid to Jennifer, who stopped working in 1969 when Susan was born. They also receive housing benefit worth around £45 a week.

Susan, who spends much of her day listening to CDs and watching videos, said: “It’s awful trying to survive now. We only have one wage — my mum’s benefit. The Jobcentre won’t let us have a thing. It’s disgusting.”

Susan left school at 16 with GCSEs in art and drama and spent two years at college.

She has attended regular appointments at Ryedale Jobcentre — with officials paying her £12 taxi fare — but insists she has never been offered a suitable position.


Home ... Susan's semi


Businesses seeking staff in Susan’s area yesterday included a Little Chef, a cleaning firm and a residential home — but none seem good enough for her.

Susan’s appeal to get her Jobseeker’s Allowance back will be heard next month.

And, astonishingly, she and her mum are also trying to claim Income Support on medical grounds, saying Susan suffers “monthly painful spells” and Jennifer has swollen legs.

The Department for Work and Pensions refused to comment on Susan, but said: “Failure to take New Deal courses can result in benefit loss.”



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: welfare
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1 posted on 02/21/2004 4:46:16 AM PST by ejdrapes
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To: ejdrapes
I'm sure John eFing Kerry has a spot for her...
2 posted on 02/21/2004 4:50:23 AM PST by sonofatpatcher2 (Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: ejdrapes
what a sad excuse of a human being. she may have gotten plenty of stuff "free" but judging from her habits, outlook on life and appearence, it was all at a pretty steep price.
3 posted on 02/21/2004 4:53:29 AM PST by KantianBurke (Principles, not blind loyalty)
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To: ejdrapes
She's a rank amateur compared to some of our worthless social leeches that have spanned multiple generations, all while multiplying exponentially.
4 posted on 02/21/2004 4:54:18 AM PST by Feckless
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To: ejdrapes
LOL... post of the week weak bump.
5 posted on 02/21/2004 4:56:18 AM PST by Drango (Liberals give me a rash that even penicillin can't cure.)
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To: Feckless
Yep I have a 27 year old nephew who has never had a job.
6 posted on 02/21/2004 5:07:55 AM PST by JOHANNES801 (WHEN THE 2ND IS REPEALED,THE 2ND REVOLUTION STARTS.)
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To: ejdrapes
The daughter learned from the mother, who is the real story. At 58, she's been on the dole since 1969. That's 35 years. So the mother quit working at age 23.
7 posted on 02/21/2004 5:09:26 AM PST by etcetera
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To: ejdrapes
What a disgusting pig.

People like her should be shamed publicly.
8 posted on 02/21/2004 5:13:47 AM PST by Guillermo (It's tough being a Miami Dolphins fan)
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To: Guillermo
"People like her should be shamed publicly."

And so she has been. But it won't do any good. Hey, at least the woman ain't starving, that's for sure.

9 posted on 02/21/2004 5:17:31 AM PST by jocon307 (The dems don't get it, the American people do.)
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To: Guillermo
People like her should be shamed publicly.

Sadly she just was, and still doesn't get it based on her response. The only reason she been on the dole for 16 years is she has no shame.

10 posted on 02/21/2004 5:18:05 AM PST by Fzob (Why does this tag line keep showing up?)
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To: ejdrapes

Hey... I thought Americans were fat.
11 posted on 02/21/2004 5:20:10 AM PST by SouthernFreebird
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To: ejdrapes
I would like to see that headline in a U.S. paper.
12 posted on 02/21/2004 5:22:13 AM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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To: ejdrapes
Can't afford shampoo with the income loss I see.
13 posted on 02/21/2004 5:30:48 AM PST by em2vn
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To: ejdrapes
"when she quit a NEW DEAL course designed to help her find a job." FDR's legacy, just paid in pounds instead of dollars.
14 posted on 02/21/2004 5:42:31 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Death before dishonor, open bar after 6:00)
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To: CrazyIvan
Seemms to me there are people like this in every culture, in every time. Only thing different is the powerful motivator present for most of history. This kind of person either found someone to take up the slack or died. That kind of motivation is no longer present. She could be one of those do-nothiing housewives who kept a slovenly house with slovenly kids but she can't find a man.
15 posted on 02/21/2004 5:48:35 AM PST by cajungirl (John Kerry has no botox and I have a bridge to sell you!)
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To: ejdrapes
Whose smarter society or the Sponger?
16 posted on 02/21/2004 5:49:41 AM PST by demlosers (When W wins this November, I’m going to gloat and ridicule the bias media for a very long time.)
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The socialists in England have finally created the human cow. Sedentary, obese primates that take up far less stall space than their bovine relatives.
17 posted on 02/21/2004 6:02:44 AM PST by johnny7 (“C'mon! You sons 'o bitches wanna live forever!?”)
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To: ejdrapes
"What ails societies at present is not that everybody wants as much money as possible but that everybody wants to do as little as possible. We used to wonder how in the nineteenth century it was possible for so few to have so much at the expense of the many. Now the wonder is that so many get so much at the expense of the few. A showdown between the few who work and the many who don't will make a strange sort of revolution."
18 posted on 02/21/2004 6:06:10 AM PST by RunningJoke
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To: ejdrapes
Geesh! We don't need to go all the way to Britain to find an example like this.

Of course, that would be politically incorrect wouldn't it?

IMO, if they can list the names of drunk drivers, traffic scofflaws and child support delinquents, why not lazy arses that have been on the welfare rolls after say...4 years?

19 posted on 02/21/2004 6:07:41 AM PST by DCPatriot
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To: Feckless
You said it- over here she would have been able to pocket that 30,000 pounds in a few years, not the sixteen it took over in England.

Anybody remember what the equivalent salary is for a person on welfare?
20 posted on 02/21/2004 6:08:06 AM PST by Vesuvian (Quattro Power!)
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