scrooge did not donate money in the beginning but towards the end he donated 7-8 years worth of money for all the years he didn't donate to them
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Dickens articulates well the feelings of the old misery when he pens Scrooges saying in response to as financial request; "Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge. "Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. "And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?" "They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not." "The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge. "Both very busy, sir." "Oh! I was afraid , from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I am very glad to hear it."
BY providing a very large donation at Christmas to help feed and provide warmth to those poor people
He doesn't specify an amount specifically but states that it includes a great many back payments
For those that owed him money he had no empathy for. His attitude was you owe and you will pay of go to prison. He didnt see that their poverty was not of choice but forced upon them
There is no reference to actual earnings in teh Dickens work. however, based on the time and the type business run by Scrooge he would have been a very wealthy individual