A football fan has used a grant from social services to pay for Manchester United season tickets.
The 33-year-old woman is believed to have used a £550 grant paid out by Bury Council in Greater
Manchester twice since 2011.
Money is normally awarded to customers who are assessed as having specific care needs.
The woman has been allocated £550 twice and used most of it each time towards season tickets.
A source told The Sun: 'It's incredible that a council, at a time of cuts to public services didn't keep a closer eye on its money.'
Bury Council spokesman said people assessed as needing social care receive a budget to pay for their needs under a system called Self Directed Support.
The money is thought to have helped to pay for the majority of the woman's season tickets since 2011
The personal budget is money that the council gives to a person who then spends the money to meet their needs.
You can only have a personal budget if you have been assessed by Adult Care Services as needing support to help live independently.
Man U need all the help they can get
Man U need all the help they can get
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Re: Man U need all the help they can get
It's well known that only anti-social, skiving, in-it-for-the-money, cheating gits support Manchester United. There may be exceptions - mental incompetence, brain death come to mind. 
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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Re: Man U need all the help they can get
The program is called "Self Directed Support" and they are surprised when it's abused?
Re: Man U need all the help they can get
I'm not surprised it's abused, but still, Man U? How low can you go?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Re: Man U need all the help they can get
Well obviously the Self Directed Support payments need to be raised so they can afford to buy more expensive tickets charged by a better team.
Re: Man U need all the help they can get
What's the problem? It fulfilled a specific care need. She probably needs to be around a lot of people in order to overcome her severe anxiety.
Re: Man U need all the help they can get
I would think being surrounded by a crowd of Soccer Hooligans would tend to increase one's anxiety...
Re: Man U need all the help they can get
Not true for her. She only avoids places that are so crowded that nobody goes there anymore.
Re: Man U need all the help they can get
I see no problem here. Football in Manchester comes under the banner of basic needs...
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Re: Man U need all the help they can get
..basic unmet needs. (Except for the noisy neighbours)
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts