FatGambit wrote:
I cannot fathom why these people like Jimmy do what they do, back when I had a bit of financial trouble thanks to the infamous 2008 crash, I was told in simple terms, pay the mortgage (didn't have one so it didn't matter), pay the council tax and buy food, electric and gas, tell all the others to wait in line, it was emphasised to me that if I had any major assets, like a house, to not fuck about if I wanted to keep them, i's beyond me why the hell Jimmy has thrown away his house over a council tax bill...
I did Home Visits when I worked for a Council and I would suggest that some people can't prioritize or are simply are so far up themselves they can't see the train crash they are heading for.
The number of houses I used to visit that had Sky and the full channel package paid for through a bank account they suddenly remembered they had (DD was the only way to pay for Sky back then,) beamed onto the latest Panasonic TV screen that took up half the living room, which they watched when they put their latest and greatest smartphone down, next to the shiny Laptop or PC to tell you with a perfectly straight face they wanted to apply for Benefit as they could not afford to pay their CT or rent used to amaze me. You could not tell them perhaps the Sky should go or the latest smartphone could wait, because it is rightly up to them how they spend their money, so I would just get the information I needed and leave, go back to office access the claim and in the majority of home visit cases play letter tennis with them as you discovered you had been fed a crock of shit. Most claims failed, they had the income, it was how they were spending it was the problem, and yes I have been told to my face that the Council rent was in arrears because their Laptop blew up and they had to get a new one.