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IPA issued today

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  • nervousmother
    nervousmother Posts: 2,885 Forumite
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    antarctica wrote: »
    Bit harsh isn't it if it is true! :(

    very harsh! although i can understand the fact they allow you some child expenses on your SOA,
    but only one £5 activity? no pocket money? no presents? not good for the kids is it.......
  • JCS1
    JCS1 Posts: 5,347 Forumite
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    nervousmother wrote: »
    very harsh! although i can understand the fact they allow you some child expenses on your SOA,
    but only one £5 activity? no pocket money? no presents? not good for the kids is it.......

    That's a very good point - pocket money is specifically excluded from being an allowable expenses on an SOA, yet suspect a lot of people use child benefit for that.
  • The_Watchman_2
    The_Watchman_2 Posts: 100 Forumite
    nervousmother wrote: »
    very harsh! although i can understand the fact they allow you some child expenses on your SOA,
    but only one £5 activity? no pocket money? no presents? not good for the kids is it.......







    You have hit the nail on the head, if they do this, other items will HAVE to be allowed.

    I don’t think they realise the can of worms they are opening.

    I get the feeling they may regret it;)
    They claim their labours are to build a heaven, yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made, perhaps nothing is made?
    Its too late, always has been, always will be.
    Too late!
  • antarctica
    antarctica Posts: 499 Forumite
    It's meant to be for the children so they shouldn't be able to take any!

    That is my personal opinion anyway.
    Look down your nose at me and I thumb my nose back at you. :p

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  • The_Watchman_2
    The_Watchman_2 Posts: 100 Forumite
    antarctica wrote: »
    It's meant to be for the children so they shouldn't be able to take any!

    That is my personal opinion anyway.

    If they allow a holiday fund, and funding for birthdays, Christmas, and other activities, that argument does not hold as much weight as we would like, but the fact is many don’t.

    They cannot have it both ways, the question is will anyone stand up and say so?

    If they don’t, the IS will get away with it, as it most likely will only benefit the IS anyway on borderline IPA cases.
    They claim their labours are to build a heaven, yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made, perhaps nothing is made?
    Its too late, always has been, always will be.
    Too late!
  • nervousmother
    nervousmother Posts: 2,885 Forumite
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    I gave my eldest all of her CB, although we fund her bus fairs and expenses for college she is not intitled to recieve the £30 a week payment all her friends receive (we earn too much.. so they say) I had to encourage her to go to college somehow
  • antarctica
    antarctica Posts: 499 Forumite
    nervousmother wrote: »
    I gave my eldest all of her CB, although we fund her bus fairs and expenses for college she is not intitled to recieve the £30 a week payment all her friends receive (we earn too much.. so they say) I had to encourage her to go to college somehow

    When I did a city and guilds I got £29.50 a week (in 1993) and gave half of it to my mum, I had practically nothing!

    :A
    Look down your nose at me and I thumb my nose back at you. :p

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  • nervousmother
    nervousmother Posts: 2,885 Forumite
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    I was the same when i went to college, but these days if parents on a low wage the kids get EMA, my daughter is the only one in her class that does not get anything :-(
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