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min wage has just risen 4.6% to £8.21 p/hr, the trouble is the council pay housing benefit to the claimant and not the landlord, claimant spends the money and then gets 4 mths into arrears then wonders why they are being evicted, stupid system, but there are people who live above me who dont work and havent done for several years, i wonder how they survive, i work 35 hrs a week and my wife is at uni (mature student), it makes me sick that the people who live above us dont work at all and have all of lifes luxurys, but i couldnt just sit at home and do nothin, i spoke a lady who lives upstairs that hasnt worked in 8 years, she says i have a wonky hand so i cant work , i would just go sick all the time, another one is on PIP because of depression, you couldnt make it up
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Well, you have to ask yourself if you would be able to work your 35 hours for £8.21 an hour, pay your travel to work costs, child care costs and full rent and council tax and be financially better off than not working?
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Don't know how anyone survives,what a life countrys booming apparently lol...
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easily better off working, its a no brainer, but i have no debt, so a lot of familys on benefits have debt with payday loans,catalogue,etc , so i guess the luxurys come from catalogues, there is no way i could sit at home all day and no nothin, in my 29 years since i left school ive been on the dole for a total of 4 weeks, i cant understand the not to work ethic
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a lot on families in work, get benefits, have no debt and no catalogue debt
but because wages are so low, and have no guarantee they even have any work today because of zero hour contract they are forced onto, will not plan to increase spending its easy to highlight overspending families and those that dont wish to work but they in no way represent the vast majority of folk in this country striving to just about manage some folk have been savvy and can retire before age 67, but they are the lucky ones, who have resisted high interest loans, over priced tat, and stuff that they really did not require. |
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So 35 hours x £8.21 = £287.35 less deductions. That is to pay transport to work costs, child care when at work, full rent and council tax. You think that is far better financially off than folks on the dole?
Forget about any other outlay/loans/ luxuries etc whether working or not. |
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Well done lord, what type of work you doing ?
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So 35 hours x £8.21 = £287.35 less deductions
about 15k a year, for a full time job, but if you have kids you will be able to claim benefits so no suffer deductions in real terms. with a non working spouse and 2 kids you will get about 230 a week on top of that wage after you have paid tax, ni, and pension deduction so earnings of around 14k net and uni credit of 12k |
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can work out potential benefits at
https://www.entitledto.co.uk/help/Calculating-Universal-Credit |
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Benefits should not be a lifestyle choice.
They should be for the sick and for emergencies. They have it right in Spain where you get them for a limited time only when not in work and can work. The current Tories are more to the left than Labour where in 1945. |
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to the left, lol
they are subsidising their sponsors with cheap labour |
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it wouldnt be any diffrent with labour in power, the benefit system encourages the lazy not to work, i would say im fairly good with my money, have a 10 day holiday every year, have savings and no debt, i used to overspend and be in debt but not now, insider is right benefits shouldnt be a lifestyle choice but the system is stupid, they send people to jobs they dont want to do, they turn up for 1 day and dissapear, i work with mostly young people and its sad to say its the english ones that dont want to work and the foreigners who turn up every day, it really shouldnt be like this
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if a company wish to employ a £23 k a year worker they should pay them £23k
not 15k and have rest of population subsidise their profits if a decent living wage existed then a lot of problems around benefits would be gone |