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sully16 — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:05:29 GMT

I've been watching the same ole people for years , having kid after kid they can't feed, most of them starting in high school and most having never worked a day in their life.

Comment #1

wheeltowin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:58:47 GMT

If they can't figure out what causes this condition by now....the movie Idiocracy comes to mind.

Original Blog Entry: Jobless couple expecting 12th child

truesee — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:51:31 GMT

Jobless couple expecting 12th child

Belfast Telegraph

Monday, 16 August 2010

A jobless couple living in a $1,200-a-month house paid for by taxpayers is expecting a 12th child, it has been reported.

Gary Bateman, 46, and his partner Joanne Sheppard, 36, moved this year to a new privately-rented five-bedroom home in Staple Hill, Bristol.

Mother-of-11 Ms Sheppard became pregnant again shortly after moving into the new property and is due to give birth at the end of the year, The Sun reported.

Referring to the pregnancy, Mr Bateman told the paper: It was an accident. Something happened that wasn't supposed to. We've enough for a football team.

The couple complained last year that their previous three-bedroom council house in Yate, near Bristol, was too small for their large family.

South Gloucestershire Council officials visited in October and agreed they were suffering from overcrowding and needed somewhere bigger to live.

But the main local social housing association, Merlin Housing Society, had no five-bedroom properties, so they were told to find a new home on the private market to be paid for by housing benefit, a council spokesman said.

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of campaign group the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: It's disgraceful that this family is being given more than taxpayers earn. Our benefits system needs real reform.

A South Gloucestershire Council spokesman said: Our input was to do an assessment. They said they were overcrowded. We have a statutory obligation if there are children involved to have a look.

In this particular instance it was assessed that the children were suffering from overcrowding. Therefore we have a statutory duty under legislation laid down by central Government to help them get rehoused.

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/jobless-couple-expecting-12th-child-14912767.html#ixzz0wliIOdOy

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