Warning! Big benefit payments shake-up: frequency and pay-day will change for most

KimYeovil

shellsuit wrote: »

Quite the judgemental aren't you? :rolleyes:

How would you know what people keep in their store cupboards ~ or even if they have a store cupboard in the first place???

You mean they're homeless? How else would they not have anywhere to store food? If they are homeless then surely they have slightly more pressing problems to address than having the day they're paid their allowances jiggled about with? And they wouldn't have bank accounts or direct debits in the first place.

What a strange remark.

looby75

KimYeovil wrote: »

You mean they're homeless? How else would they not have anywhere to store food? If they are homeless then surely they have slightly more pressing problems to address than having the day they're paid their allowances jiggled about with? And they wouldn't have bank accounts or direct debits in the first place.

What a strange remark.

no it isn't!

When my sister was made redundant a few years ago it took over a month before her JSA claim was approved as her ex employers left the country and she couldn't get all the paperwork and info she needed from them to complete her claim. It was the second time in just over a year she had lost her job so she had very little savings and had to live on what she had in her house.

Once she started receiving JSA she could only afford to buy enough food to cover what she would eat in a week (and not always that much) £54 (as it was then) doesn't go far and certainly not far enough to build up a stock cupboard.

KimYeovil

What universe are you weirdos living in? The lower your income the more vital and necessary the stock cupboard is. You !!!!!!s are probably all so flush from swanning around on £60 a week plus another goodness knows how much from your "boo hoo I feel too stressed at the prospect of lowering myself to take that stop-gap" living allowance bonuses that you have never experienced poverty in your life. "Ooh I can't feed myself on £54!" Complete twaddle.

And anyway, if they stop paying weekly and start paying fortnightly or monthly surely that will ease the situation - is it not much better to receive a lump sum of £128 every two weeks than a sum of £64 every week?

(And hang on - you just revealed that your sister survived for more than a month on nothing! )

Zara33

KimYeovil wrote: »

What universe are you weirdos living in? The lower your income the more vital and necessary the stock cupboard is. You !!!!!!s are probably all so flush from swanning around on £60 a week plus another goodness knows how much from your "boo hoo I feel too stressed at the prospect of lowering myself to take that stop-gap" living allowance bonuses that you have never experienced poverty in your life. "Ooh I can't feed myself on £54!" Complete twaddle.

And anyway, if they stop paying weekly and start paying fortnightly or monthly surely that will ease the situation - is it not much better to receive a lump sum of £128 every two weeks than a sum of £64 every week?

Hopefully not on the same universe as you.

looby75

KimYeovil wrote: »

What universe are you weirdos living in? The lower your income the more vital and necessary the stock cupboard is. You !!!!!!s are probably all so flush from swanning around on £60 a week plus another goodness knows how much from your "boo hoo I feel too stressed at the prospect of lowering myself to take that stop-gap" living allowance bonuses that you have never experienced poverty in your life. "Ooh I can't feed myself on £54!" Complete twaddle.

And anyway, if they stop paying weekly and start paying fortnightly or monthly surely that will ease the situation - is it not much better to receive a lump sum of £128 every two weeks than a sum of £64 every week?

£54 wasn't only to feed my sister, it was to pay all her bills, clothe and pay expenses to travel to interviews etc. She spent about £10 a week on food, that buys the basics the rest went on gas, electricity, tv licence, insurance, basic toiletry's, cleaning products etc.

Your personal comments are totally uncalled for too. You know nothing about me or anyone else on the boards so please keep you "complete twaddle" to yourself.

Zara33

looby75 wrote: »

£54 wasn't only to feed my sister, it was to pay all her bills, clothe and pay expenses to travel to interviews etc. She spent about £10 a week on food, that buys the basics the rest went on gas, electricity, tv licence, insurance, basic toiletry's, cleaning products etc.

Your personal comments are totally uncalled for too. You know nothing about me or anyone else on the boards so please keep you "complete twaddle" to yourself.

;)Let's be realistic here they know SFA about benefit's either, but then again that's never stopped the benefit basher's of the world.

looby75

KimYeovil wrote: »

(And hang on - you just revealed that your sister survived for more than a month on nothing! )

No she didn't, as I said in the post you replied to she lived on what very little savings and food she already had in her house from before she lost her job.

She used all her resources in the month (it was actually more like 6 weeks) before she was finally granted JSA. She was about as desperate as could be by that point. It if it hadn't been for a lovely lady in the CAB who dealt with the jobcentre on my sister behalf after all my sisters efforts and pleas for help fell on deaf ears I don't know what she would have done. None of us were in a the position to help her out with more than the odd meal here and there and she was literately down to nothing.

bestpud

looby75 wrote: »

I've never been that impressed with Approved foods, maybe I just haven't managed to hit it right but there is never anything that practical on there when I look, lots of things like sesame oil and gluten free pasta but no "normal" stuff.

I would also suggest buying woopsies (reduced items) and freezing them, my freezer is normally pretty full of yellow ticketed items...I say normally but my ds accidentally turned my freezer off at the wall just before we left to spend the week at my sisters I've lost at least a weeks worth of food :mad:

I think it depends when you get on there as this was the first time I managed to make up a load of reasonable food.

I but lots of woopsies too, particularly bread and the like. We always freeze it anyway so it makes no difference if it is going out of date.

How annoying to lose a weeks worth of food - I think I'd cry!

bestpud

shellsuit wrote: »

Quite the judgemental aren't you? :rolleyes:

How would you know what people keep in their store cupboards ~ or even if they have a store cupboard in the first place???

Obviously only the lower classes on benefits too!

Redundancy must only affect manual workers I guess... :rolleyes:

looby75

bestpud wrote: »

I think it depends when you get on there as this was the first time I managed to make up a load of reasonable food.

I but lots of woopsies too, particularly bread and the like. We always freeze it anyway so it makes no difference if it is going out of date.

How annoying to lose a weeks worth of food - I think I'd cry!

I did the socket that the fridge freezer is plugged into is the same one as the toaster is in. DS trying to be helpful turned the toaster off (we turn all none essential switches off when we go away) and we think he must have accidentally caught the freezer switch too.

A pure accident that won't happen again....I'm going to get one of those covers that stop you turning the switch off accidentally