Ricky Dunn wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:51 am

jaynewcastle wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 3:33 am When people can't afford to live in Cambodia, where do they go next ?, is there somewhere worse ?

Or is Cambodia generally the end of the line for the down & out druggies & alcoholics ?

If they had a brain, they would go to say Belgium and rob a bank, get caught and go to a nice clean prison with free food, free medical, clean clothes, etc.

cptrelentless wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 7:42 am

pczz wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:21 am

DaveG wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:28 pm I know it's cold in Scotland but it must be better that living on the streets in Siem Reap, at least he would get a hostel and some JSA unless the Tories have changed it up there to UC.

How the hell do people end up like that, if I'm ever down to my last 500 USD im catching a flight back.

a hoistel? u r having a laff. he might get universal credit enough to buy a jam sandwich once a week , but that won't be paid till after he has froze to death. Lets nail this myth about uk benefits once and for all
In 2014 I had to sign on. i was given the princely sum of £70 a week as a single perosn. my gas and electric and water were £40 a week. bus fare to the dole office for @training@ was £35 a week and no they dont pay it.
In short he is probably better off sleeping in the streets here. he can catch a fish in the river and cook it or beg or ask the monks for help without being arrested, try that back in the Uk

I find it unlikely that your gas, electric and water was £40 a week. That's £180 a month. That's the price for a family house. Even with oil prices being double. You would have received housing benefit/mortgage relief as well. Plus the back to work scheme you were getting training on would have given you money towards your transport costs if they were valid. So yes, they do give you bus money. You only go to the dole office to sign on once a fortnight.