I don't know I don't get them but there's plenty at the school get them with both parents working ?
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Tbh growing up there was many times we didnt have enough food but there was always a couple of £ for fags. And my dad always had money for the pub. Thats just personal experience though and I wont judge other parents on that.
Everyone should have enough money to feed both themselves and their children though.
Everyone should have enough money to feed both themselves and their children though.
Of course they do. You do realise that this small proportion of people that you know is no way representative of the real life struggles people face.
The cut off for free school meals is £7,400 on universal credit or if your on tax credits it is when you work 16 hours or more
The vouchers can be spent on anything in store someone i know bought a TV from john Lewis with hers!.
I've no idea but in my sons class alone there's 2 parents that work in McDonalds and he gets free meals there's also 2 parents that do admin in the hospital one full-time one part-time they get them.
I worked in a supermarket for 3 years as my Saturday job and early years food vouchers specifically state they can be used only for certain types of food.
The store shouldn’t of allowed it and also they normally come in £5 increments so they must have had a lot of vouchers...
It was the vouchers over lockdown. She ordered online they wernt in 5 pound increments. They got a lump sum before the summer holidays.
If that is even true there are always going to be a small amount that take the piss. There is in all walks of life. But I'd rather a small minority take the piss then we leave a large majority to struggle
This sounds like an absolute lie
she must have been saving up years of vouchersWe've had other parents who know another family is struggling (via WhatsApp parents chat) and come in to school and as a group paid for their children's school meals until December. This happened 2 weeks ago and I think about it constantly. Made me and several other teachers bawl in the staff room as we had no idea the family was facing such hardship.
Both parents very affluent high flying jobs in aviation, now on universal credit which doesnt even cover their mortgage, never mind food for their kids.
Edit: We also had parents come in to return their vouchers to give to others as they didn't want to use them if not needed when someone else will need them more. These parents are a pain in the ASS on a normal day but they've filled my heart so much since March.
Both parents very affluent high flying jobs in aviation, now on universal credit which doesnt even cover their mortgage, never mind food for their kids.
Edit: We also had parents come in to return their vouchers to give to others as they didn't want to use them if not needed when someone else will need them more. These parents are a pain in the ASS on a normal day but they've filled my heart so much since March.
This sounds like an absolute lie
As I have said she got a lump sum for 3 children before the summer holidays it was like 10 pound a week per child. So times that by 6 weeks.
Yes it’s very low, I was entitled to them when my ex husband left but it was literally for a few months, I’m still only part time on a low income as I work around my son and have no childcare and I haven’t been entitled to them for years, but I do now get working tax credit so It all works out.
Thank you to you and your mum! x
EXACTLY!!! I was shocked to learn that there are actually more food banks in the UK than there are mcdonalds!! Idk about your towns but within a 10 mile radius of my house I have 6 mcdonalds. We have a problem that we had way before COVID.Lots of people on low incomes are unable to save which means they are just one emergency or unexpectedly high bill away from being in a situation where they can’t afford to feed their children.
When MPs say it’s parents mismanaging money it’s because they want us all to assume that they are all buying themselves luxuries or cigarettes or something because this country loves poverty porn and loves to have some one to blame(I’m sure some people do this - but the majority of people do put their children first.)
This is why the 60% furlough payments are so worrying, even more children are going to be living in poverty. I can’t imagine the worry some people are facing.
How can you mismanage money you haven't got?! How can you save what's not there?!
Side note
I hate the "oh well they've xyz. They could put that towards their kids instead" -
1. You cannot live in todays society without a phone. Life requires it. You can barely survive on one that just texts and calls nowaday, especially if you're unemployed.
2. They may have had that stuff before they were in poverty, or it could be an old phone/tv that was given to them.
and 3. Are people honestly suggesting that poor people should just sit in a house with nothing in it? Just drawing on the walls for fun cause you shouldn't have a tv or any kind of entertainment if you're poor? Do people not realise how soul destroying being poor is? Christ if fags and a tv help relieve the constant anxiety and stress of it then let people have it. Life is only going to get worse with COVID as well. How are you going to entertain your kids in lockdown with nothing?!
Also, maybe I'm a bit of a socialist but I don't understand why in 2020 we have to debate whether or not to feeds kids. It's a disgrace. Let the kids bleeping eat. I'd happily pay more taxes if meant no kid was going to bed hungry and no parent had to worry if their kid was going to be fed.
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Honesty shocked by the rudeness of People on this thread. Making out I'm lying..way to make people feel tit. Dont think I will bother with tattle anymore.
That is so very lovely! x
The Waitrose ones could be used in John Lewis, that shouldn't of been allowed. My last ones for the summer holidays didn't work so lost out on £200
I don't have kids, but as far as I'm concerned all state schools should offer free school meals for all children and stuff the means-testing. I would rather see a £1bn+ a year spent on feeding all state-school kids than being pissed down the drain on poxy white elephants like HS2, the budget of which is already heading towards £110bn.
Moreover, you look how much the government is spending (QE'ing) on propping up the ailing economy during this 7 month pandemic (£209bn thus far according to some forecasts), and another billion or two for a very worthy cause would be like a pebble in the ocean.
Edit to say our criteria is different to Englands that must be why
£180? For a telly? From John Lewis?
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