But yet the cost of living continues to rise? My gas bill is going up by 21% from next month. My eyes nearly popped out when I got the letter. I get a letter every few months telling me the rates are increasing (where I am they are included in the weekly rent amount). With the £80 cut and the NI increase they are blatantly making the working class poorer.
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I’ve had 2 emails in the past 6 months from my energy supplier announcing an increase in prices. It’s getting hard to keep up.
I can see why people are arguing the payment should stay though IMO, like I said above, I'm getting paid £160 which after the removal of the payment will go down to £120 and if you take that weekly or for someone living payment to payment it's not much at all. I get that it's going back to the pre-COVID payments, I get that they can't magic money out of nowhere but it really is going to be a kick in the teeth for those who have come to rely on the extra cash especially in winter and with Christmas coming up too
If it hadn't been given in the first place there wouldn't be this uproar. If they follow through with taking it away and down the line we get put in another national lockdown people won't get it back to get them through it because the government won't want the hassle when it's removed a second time.
Oh I'm so sorry I didn't get the memo that because I can't work due to illness that that means I don't need the extra £86 a month.
I get what people mean but of course people would rather have not had it at all than to have it and now lose it. 1.) You might have got used to the little extra. And 2.) you can't miss what you never had. It's going to plunge more further into debt, using food banks etc.
A couple of us have got emails lately about our gas and electric going up
as been said further up the price of living is still going up. I have to laugh at the poxy minimum wage per hour for most jobs. It's absolutely shocking. Living wage my arse!! Should all be £10p/h at the minimum. None of this £6, £7, £8 p/h.
A couple of us have got emails lately about our gas and electric going up
as been said further up the price of living is still going up. I have to laugh at the poxy minimum wage per hour for most jobs. It's absolutely shocking. Living wage my arse!! Should all be £10p/h at the minimum. None of this £6, £7, £8 p/h.
regardless whether it’s been extended ur not, people will still struggle. i don’t make the rules.
Reading this back I’ve just realised I‘ll get even less than £120 lol oops
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Yep this is the Minimum Income Floor Floor.
If one of the claimants is self employed they are treated as earning a minimum of £1000 (or so) a month....even if they have a crap month and only bring in £500.
We are in the same position and I am Carer to our son so it's not even as if I can pick up the slack during those harder months.
Awful situation to be in.
I'm glad the UC stories are exposing that it's only people with children that can work 2 hours to earn an extra £20 and that childless claimants need to work 6 hours to get £20 extra
Ah interesting! I was taking the BBC report at face value. It's clearly a pretty complex picture with lots to factor in. Could almost do with a half an hour infographics show to explain the scenarios!
Yep, does seem so bizarre to treat so many different cases and needs the one way. There's a world of difference between someone on it for a short time in-between jobs and someone that is going to need it long term.
Are the online benefit calculators accurate?
I don’t know much about UC as I’ve never had to use it but really how do these privileged people know anything about what it’s like for normal working people to survive let alone people who have to rely on benefits? They are far too removed from reality. What was it Boris said when asked about the price of a pint of milk? “I can tell you the price of a bottle of champagne”.
The gap between the rich and the poor will keep getting wider and it seems to me that’s just the way they like it.
The gap between the rich and the poor will keep getting wider and it seems to me that’s just the way they like it.
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Entitledto is pretty accurate, at least I found it to be
I claim UC, mainly for childcare for my daughter (she is 2 next week). I work full time spread over 4 days (36 hours), I'm also a single parent and my daughters other parent isn't involved. I see sooo many comments about how this £20 was only temporary, but I didn't even know it was a thing as I started claiming after it was rolled out. I hate telling people I claim it, despite it being towards childcare that enables me to work. For me, even with my wage, child benefit and my UC top up, I still really struggle most months. The comments you see on Facebook about people being scroungers and how people need to get jobs annoy me so much. I have worked my entire adult life, I ended up in this position through no fault of my own (I had a mortgage with my ex, we lived comfortably etc). Now I am doing it all totally alone, I'm working my bloody backside off to provide a life for the two of us, and yet some people would still brand me as a scrounger all because I claim UC. Awful.
These people obviously haven’t got a clue. You’re doing great and setting a good example for your daughter.