do you get money from answering toluna

Indirectly, yes you do. When you answer the sponsored polls (15 points each), and the surveys that are sent to you by email (points vary, and sometimes you receive a bonus of 100 or 500 if you do not 'match the target profile'), you will receive points that can be redeemed for vouchers (I do quite well with my HMV vouchers!), you will also receive 100 points (given retrospectively approximately one month later) for writing an opinion for others to comment on and by adding your opinion to another authors posting, as long as ypur comment is eighty words long or longer. You can also gain 500 points for each topic you complete for your interests profile (which is used to select people for product testing), with a 2000 point bonus for completing them all.

You get the staisfaction of promoting an opinion poll with a possible return.

AFTER HOW LONG? FROM WHERE? AND WILL I DIE OF OLD AGE FIRST?

I get sainsbury vouchers which i can use for groceries plus there are a host of other vouchers etc to choose from, or you can spend yr points on draw tickets...we never actually get a cheque as such.