Why is my friend only entitled to £16 a week tax cred??

msmicawber

missk_ensington wrote: »

mismicawber - £22,000 a year, her bursary is not taken into account by tax credits. And telling her husband to get a better job is both a ludicrious comment, you have no idea what his qualifications/experience is, or what the job market is like up here. And as she works nights doing shifts (as part of HER second job) he has to be at home to look after their son

It doesn't really matter whether the bursary is taken into account or not, the family still gets it, but even on £22k a year, it's a reasonable amount. No, I don't know anything about your friend's husband, but why is it so ludicrous that he should try and get a better paid job? She does an evening job, so why can't he do it or a similar one instead? That's what lots of people do when they're up against it and when one partner isn't in good health - in her case, I imagine she's rather tired. Where is 'up here' - cloud cuckoo land?

dmg24

missk_ensington wrote: »

No it isnt syncope, my understanding of syncope is that it is just an irregular erratic heartbeat, and doesnt cause blackouts lasting up to an hour. I had a heart loop recorder fitted in 2004, had 2 more operations through my neck vein that thread into the heart and shot at the nerves, then had a pacemaker fitted, so f*** off and stop trying to diagnose something you know absolutely nothing about

You are truly a medical miracle! :rolleyes:

Goes off to Google missk_essington syndrome ...

missk_ensington

GlasweJen wrote: »

our university will issue the certificate and invite you to next year ceremony? surely if you've submitted all the work you can graduate with the other re-sitters?

There are no re-sitters in the third year, the cut off date was 8th May to hand in dissertation and graduate 08, mine went in in July and although they've acknowledged receipt it and given me a provisional mark, it wont go to the panel of markers until next year with the 2009 Grads. So Ive finished in name, but not on paper. Not that it matters as I am not using my degree and probably never will again

GlasweJen

i'm out for hours and it's still syncope. syncope is defined as a loss of conciousness due to a lack of oxygen to the brain, there is no time limit on syncope and it can have multiple causes including cardiac arrythmia but there are other causes too. Basilar migranes and sick sinus syndrome are also types of syncope. I've also got a pacemaker, it's a medtronic kappa DDD but i've still got syncope. Your operations were probably ablations.

GlasweJen

oh and if you've no irregular heart beat then why get a pacemaker? that's sort of what they're built for.

Loopy_Girl

missk_ensington wrote: »

And if my friend wanted to engineer her circumstances I'd tell her to quit work, register self employed teaching origami or suchlike, earn £0, work 40 hours a week, claim full time childcare an dget tax credits on her new household income of £15,000 a year.

errr why don't you since you are doing that too...and since she doesn't have a PC then tell her to get one and then piggy back a WI-FI connection...just like you too

IN FACT...why don't you and your friend morph into one.....oh hang on, you already have:rolleyes:

missk_ensington

msmicawber wrote: »

It doesn't really matter whether the bursary is taken into account or not, the family still gets it, but even on £22k a year, it's a reasonable amount. No, I don't know anything about your friend's husband, but why is it so ludicrous that he should try and get a better paid job? She does an evening job, so why can't he do it or a similar one instead? That's what lots of people do when they're up against it and when one partner isn't in good health - in her case, I imagine she's rather tired. Where is 'up here' - cloud cuckoo land?

She is doing a nursing degree so has to do 35-37 hours a week on placement, then she work in the hospital 20 hours as an auxillary or something similar, so its related to her degree kind of. As she works nights (as well as days) he cant work as well, or they'd be spending their earnings on more childcare.

Re his job, I think he has already landed on his feet with his current job as I dont think he has any qualifications and to be getting £14,000 for an unskilled manual job is already pretty generous. I think there is a cut off of how much you can do, even in the face of adversity you cant expect people to work 70 hours a week, and bring up a family, and keep on top of housework... it just isn't suitainable

shellsuit

How can someone work 40 hours a week and bring home £0??

Oldernotwiser

For anybody with a couple of hours to spend;See these threads

Benefit fraud + mortgage fraud + faking personal injury + faking blackouts in shopping mall + calling for ambulances fraudulently + faking palpitations + fraudulently getting direct payments by showing au pair as carer + single student allowance and grant + DLA + Tax credit + working/child credit + work only 16h to get the credits + disability premium + college fees paid for + nursery paid for + faking payslips + getting 1300£ a month income +12000£ a year in grants and loans !!!! + renovating houses and selling them for a profit + getting warmfront grants for heating for a house being developed to sell + ?????

But having multiple properties, driving car, having au pair, going to college, carribean cruises, holidays, swimming ice skating. A profession scrounger !!! what more can I say

Fake mortgage applications when not working, faking pay slips, faking personal injury and making false personal injury claims http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=835741 (link same as this thread)

Benefit fraud. Fake palpitations, fake black outs, call ambulance to get medical record of black outs, get carer and extra money to boot via extra tax credits / DLA ?direct payments etc etc

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=385880&page=2

benefit fraud getting 200£ a week faking palpitations http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=385880&page=4

family tradition of claiming benefits. Mother brother and herself all using some excuse or the other to get benefits, ankle fractures, bad backs, palpitations, blackouts and what not http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=385880&page=5

claiming blackouts while standing only!!! But not while sitting, hence still driving but curiously the blackouts don’t happen when ice skating http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=4448537&postcount=108

printing money or rather milking the system http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=4449652&postcount=125

12000£ a year in loans and grants !!! http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=4461628&postcount=170

Getting warmfront grants http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=4461746&postcount=190

all that from just one of her threads. god knows what else was scrounged:mad: .

yes i know i didnt have anyhing better to do:o

I'm not the member who's gone to all this trouble but most of it's a real eye opener for any new "friends" of miss k!

dmg24

missk_ensington wrote: »

There are no re-sitters in the third year, the cut off date was 8th May to hand in dissertation and graduate 08, mine went in in July and although they've acknowledged receipt it and given me a provisional mark, it wont go to the panel of markers until next year with the 2009 Grads. So Ive finished in name, but not on paper. Not that it matters as I am not using my degree and probably never will again

Which university are you at that does not allow resits in the summer of the final year?

Why have you spent three years doing a degree when you are not going to use it? What do you plan instead?