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Re: Benefits RANT!

i'm afraid that 37K is not a lot when you have 4 kids and a house to look after as the cost of living in this country is spiralling out of proportion to the average wage.

house prices are stupid.
fuel prices are a joke.
cost of food shopping increase every week for no apparent reason.
interest rates on credit cards etc.etc are taking the pizz as the base rate is .5% from the BOE.
not to mention vehicle prices and the cost of running that vehicle.

i'm the same as i would have to earn a minimum of £60k a year if i were working to have an avarage life style.

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Here's me thinking I can't afford kids with that cash id be better off than just me n dave lol

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As a pensioner I will not comment apart from that is one load of money more than we get and if I do any work my money is reduced and I HAVE TO PAY TAX on what I get

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Mrs G------You already have one big kid-----just declare yourself as a single parent family ;)

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Originally Posted by Bri w (Post 2619156)

She doesn't want a job with more than 16hrs in it coz she'd be loads worse off. Where's the incentive:mad:???

There is no incentive. I'm in a similar situation.
I went to the Citizens Advice Service - they told me "get a job for 16hours and week and apply for all your benefits."

That is what they told me. those exact words.

I didnt listen, I got a full time job for minimum wage (and let me tell you it sucks) and I'm worse off than I was on benefits and worse off than I was as a student, it's only my pride that stops me cutting my hours and claiming for all it's worth.

It's all wrong, and it's a very very broken system.

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Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris (Post 2619217)

He'd been reading about a family managing to total up £37k a year from benefits alone, I was gobsmacked!

:smt104

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Originally Posted by Bibio (Post 2619240)

Even with two. Pete won't get out of bed for anything less the 40k, and thats just to have the average just about manageable lifestyle, but then hes used to that sort of living........and its damn hard keeping a job paying that round here too. Yorkshire has **** wages compared to down south, with the cost of living just the same.:smt009

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The wages down South arent as good as you think. I have just secured a new job down South and when I was looking for jobs the wages were the same as what I am on now up North.

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Originally Posted by minimorecambe (Post 2619329)

The wages down South arent as good as you think. I have just secured a new job down South and when I was looking for jobs the wages were the same as what I am on now up North.

Since the credit crunch eveything has now taken a nose dive. Jobs wages are at least 20% less than what they were previously. I've been searching for jobs and some of the wages are ridiculously low

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Originally Posted by minimorecambe (Post 2619329)

The wages down South arent as good as you think. I have just secured a new job down South and when I was looking for jobs the wages were the same as what I am on now up North.

Pete came from down South(Suffolk and London), I suppose it depends on your job. Its been a very big shock the last couple of years since he moved up here, its taken a lot of getting used to. Hes actually having to consider either working abroad, or working back down South again!

Its so bad, hes been offered two jobs recently, only to have the plug pulled on both couple of weeks later, as the companies don't have the finances to carry the vacancies through. These are very well known nationwide companies...and its quite disturbing.