Dr F....its immaterial what the JSA payment is. Its not enough to live on and its certainly not enough to waste on drugs. Stupid people take drugs and the rest of us shouldn't be footing the bill for their stupidity. We should do as TTT says...pay them in food vouchers and settle their bills direct with the people that they owe money too. I have been a socialist all my adult life but I am sick and tired of these stupid people lazing around, using my hard earned money to fund their chaotic lifestyles. We should be spending our welfare budget on benefits for OAPs, like funding a proper and decent system to care for the ones needing long term care. We should also be looking seriously at how we can help the army of carers that we have in Britain, who are struggling to look after elderly or infirm relations. As was shown on TV recently, some of these carers are children.
We recently had an animated debate on AB about "recreational drug addicts"
If people want to take drugs and pay for them out of their wages, so be it. But the rest of us hard working citizens can't continue to pay for these irresponsible people, who have faced the same choices that we all face, but have decided to spend their money, in this case, OUR money, on drugs.