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

shellsuit

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.

Homeless? !!!!!! are you talking about?!

A store cupboard - somewhere to store foods, ie, dry/tinned etc

Not everyone has a fitted kitchen, so may only have a fridge and/or freezer, which means they can't just rustle something up which has been sat around for a while.


Some people might do a weekly shop and stick to it and have nothing spare in a cupboard to rustle a meal up from.


If you are used to a budget and you are living on the bones of your backside, then I can imagine it would be VERY hard to manage if you have to make everything last at least another week before you can sort your budget out again.

shellsuit

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?

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

Hmmm ~ I don't receive any of the benefits being discussed in this thread.

As for the rest of your judgemental posts, why don't you drop the mouse, pick up the phone and tell someone who gives a !!!!!!.

seven-day-weekend

>>Not everyone has a fitted kitchen, so may only have a fridge and/or freezer, which means they can't just rustle something up which has been sat around for a while.<<



You don't need an actual cupboard - you could stick your provisions in a box under the stairs/under the table/under the bed/in the spare room/even in the shed.

I'm very lucky, I have a HUGE 3m x 2m storeroom with ventialtion to the outside.

shellsuit

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

>>Not everyone has a fitted kitchen, so may only have a fridge and/or freezer, which means they can't just rustle something up which has been sat around for a while.<<



You don't need an actual cupboard - you could stick your provisions in a box under the stairs/under the table/under the bed/in the spare room/even in the shed.

I'm very lucky, I have a HUGE 3m x 2m storeroom with ventialtion to the outside.

Of course you could do that, but not everyone does do they?

I've just spoken to OH and he said when he lived on his own, he shopped weekly, didn't buy 'cupboard' items really and if he did, it was just for that time period until he had the cash to shop again.

I just don't get the judgemental posts as in 'you should be doing this/why haven't you done that?'

Everyones circumstances are different, we all live in different ways and lead different lives.

It's a shame that there will be people who will struggle until the benefit changes are put into place properly, but patronising them about what they should or shouldn't be doing, isn't going to help them at all.

LizzieS_2

Anyone on a prepayment meter can make some savings now on heating costs whilst the weather is warm - those saved amounts can go towards stocking a few extra items.

For food, try to buy the bigger packets of things like rice, or multipacks - these work out cheaper than buying 2 lots of the smaller packets.

seven-day-weekend

shellsuit wrote: »

Of course you could do that, but not everyone does do they?

I've just spoken to OH and he said when he lived on his own, he shopped weekly, didn't buy 'cupboard' items really and if he did, it was just for that time period until he had the cash to shop again.

I just don't get the judgemental posts as in 'you should be doing this/why haven't you done that?'

Everyones circumstances are different, we all live in different ways and lead different lives.

It's a shame that there will be people who will struggle until the benefit changes are put into place properly, but patronising them about what they should or shouldn't be doing, isn't going to help them at all.

Look, someone asked for suggestions as how people could manage a few extra days without getting into debt or having a loan.

I was merely making a suggestion. And quite a sensible one too. Not patronising at all. And actually I think it WILL help them.

shellsuit

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Look, someone asked for suggestions as how people could manage a few extra days without getting into debt or having a loan.

I was merely making a suggestion. And quite a sensible one too. Not patronising at all. And actually I think it WILL help them.

Nooo, I didn't mean you were patronising at all, apologies if you thought that!

My first sentence in that post was in reply to you, then my fingers got carried away again...

seven-day-weekend

shellsuit wrote: »

Nooo, I didn't mean you were patronising at all, apologies if you thought that!

My first sentence in that post was in reply to you, then my fingers got carried away again...

Apologies accepted!

shellsuit

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Apologies accepted!

Thank you

looby75

LizzieS wrote: »

For food, try to buy the bigger packets of things like rice, or multipacks - these work out cheaper than buying 2 lots of the smaller packets.

if you have a Chinese supermarket near where you live go and have a look, rice is SO cheap there.We don't have one that locally but I am lucky enough to have a friend who goes to the most local one to us every few weeks and she picks me up a 5kg bag of rice for about £6. It lasts 3 of us for months.