EMA advise please

silkyuk9

mitchaa wrote: »

If you are both PAYE which i suspect you will be with your professions, your NET income will be lower than £29k. It will be around about £26,350 from employment. (as shown in my examples of take home pay above)

I suspect you were including CB and CTC to boost this upto £29k?

Anyway, it's irrelevant as like you said your gross is £33,300 and that is over the £30,810 threshold.

It is only £10 a week though so i wouldn't get too upset.

granted, but when we have to pay a further £35 per month bus fees too, it all mounts up, this is just to get your kids an education.

she might as well get pregnant, get income support and get a free house or flat.

mitchaa

silkyuk9 wrote: »

granted, but when we have to pay a further £35 per month bus fees too, it all mounts up, this is just to get your kids an education.

she might as well get pregnant, get income support and get a free house or flat.

Very true yes, single people with children are very well catered for, but then you would have to split up otherwise she wouldn't get IS and free house.

I agree, the way they determine benefits is all wrong. You are rewarded for being single and punished for being a couple.

Hence why there are so many benefit fiddlers out there stating they are single.

SuziQ

she might as well get pregnant, get income support and get a free house or flat.

rather a flip response given what a major impact that option would have on her life(and I imiagine your lives too.)

At least she is willing to go to college and hopefully have some choice and options in life. It will be even more tight if she decides to go to Uni though!

I think there are lots of people like yourselves,just over the maximum income who quite understandably feel agrieved as you are certainly not in ahigh income bracket,hard working but recieving no help,so I do sympathise-I was in the same position before my marriage broke up and the business went bust.

silkyuk9

SuziQ wrote: »

rather a flip response given what a major impact that option would have on her life(and I imiagine your lives too.)

At least she is willing to go to college and hopefully have some choice and options in life. It will be even more tight if she decides to go to Uni though!

I think there are lots of people like yourselves,just over the maximum income who quite understandably feel agrieved as you are certainly not in ahigh income bracket,hard working but recieving no help,so I do sympathise-I was in the same position before my marriage broke up and the business went bust.

it !!!!es me off both myself and my wife have worked full time since leaving school, we have worked for the health service for a lot of years. granted my wage is nothing special and neither is my wife's but we have never claimed anything other than child benefit and working tax credit.

in todays sociaty if you have nothing you are better off than the working class family. i bet a family just like ours 2 adults and 2 children but not in work get more state help than we earn.

i cannot get EMA yet a friend of my daughters gets £40 per week, cant get help with travel costs, the college were my daughter is about to go is 21 miles away. The cost of living is sky high, i have to run an old car, struggling to make ends meet and what for?? i might as well be unemployed and get far more than £33,000 in state help each year.

We are thinking of packing our bags and moving abroad.

this is what you get for working all your life and a son fighting for his country too!!

dmg24

silkyuk9 wrote: »

it !!!!es me off both myself and my wife have worked full time since leaving school, we have worked for the health service for a lot of years. granted my wage is nothing special and neither is my wife's but we have never claimed anything other than child benefit and working tax credit.

in todays sociaty if you have nothing you are better off than the working class family. i bet a family just like ours 2 adults and 2 children but not in work get more state help than we earn.

i cannot get EMA yet a friend of my daughters gets £40 per week, cant get help with travel costs, the college were my daughter is about to go is 21 miles away. The cost of living is sky high, i have to run an old car, struggling to make ends meet and what for?? i might as well be unemployed and get far more than £33,000 in state help each year.

We are thinking of packing our bags and moving abroad.

this is what you get for working all your life and a son fighting for his country too!!

Can you explain how if you were on state benefits, they would amount to more than £33K a year?

If you want to move abroad then do it, nobody is stopping you. You will quickly learn that the grass is not always greener on the other side.

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silkyuk9 wrote: »

it !!!!es me off both myself and my wife have worked full time since leaving school, we have worked for the health service for a lot of years. granted my wage is nothing special and neither is my wife's but we have never claimed anything other than child benefit and working tax credit.

in todays sociaty if you have nothing you are better off than the working class family. i bet a family just like ours 2 adults and 2 children but not in work get more state help than we earn.

i cannot get EMA yet a friend of my daughters gets £40 per week, cant get help with travel costs, the college were my daughter is about to go is 21 miles away. The cost of living is sky high, i have to run an old car, struggling to make ends meet and what for?? i might as well be unemployed and get far more than £33,000 in state help each year.

We are thinking of packing our bags and moving abroad.

this is what you get for working all your life and a son fighting for his country too!!

what really hacks me off are people with an income of 33k thinking they would be better off on benefits,think yourselves lucky you have your health and are able to work.
Btw i thought the max ema was £30 per week,has it gone up?
And if youre thinking of leaving the country the exits that way >>>>>>>

bonnie_2

How is £94.50 income support for a couple £33,000 a year, beats me. I make it £4914.

silkyuk9

bonnie wrote: »

How is £94.50 income support for a couple £33,000 a year, beats me. I make it £4914.

have you taken into account coucil tax releif, getting rent payed, help with child care, free dental, free perscrips, free specs, free school uniforms, free this and free that

dmg24

silkyuk9 wrote: »

have you taken into account coucil tax releif, getting rent payed, help with child care, free dental, free perscrips, free specs, free school uniforms, free this and free that

You are just talking crap now. Care to quantify your statement?

healy

silkyuk9 wrote: »

have you taken into account coucil tax releif, getting rent payed, help with child care, free dental, free perscrips, free specs, free school uniforms, free this and free that

I think you will find even if you add all this up you will still have more money earning £33,000 compared to a couple in your situation on Benefits.