Poverty-hit families to get food

Mr_Matey

Hit families to get food. Jolly good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=167IhlXnN2Y&feature=PlayList&p=C89081EC117916C4&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5

sammyjammy

I just worked out based on my salary if there was an across the board increase in the tax personal allowance to £15,000 I would have to pay a rate of 34% Income tax to pay the same tax I do now, my salary is c. £26,800, you have to also take into account the many people who would end up paying more tax to offset the change.

MissMoneypenny

Graham_Devon wrote: »

No one is forced to go without food in this country.

We have a very generous benefits system.

CHOICE on what to spend those benefits on leaves some without food, through their own doing.

I remember vividly the Jamie Oliver programme where the women broke into tears saying she couldnt afford to buy her kids food, and then lights up a fag next to her range cooker.

The only people I can honestly see being on the poverty line is those who don't really "make it" onto the benefits system importance list. The single person with no kids and no ache or pain.

It would be better for a lot of children if the government opened up the school kitchens to provide meals for the children whose parents claimed tax credits, instead of giving this money to the parents. This way, we could be sure that the children had the child tax credit money spent on them.

PasturesNew

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

It would be better for a lot of children if the government opened up the school kitchens to provide meals for the children whose parents claimed tax credits, instead of giving this money to the parents. This way, we could be sure that the children had the child tax credit money spent on them.

They get free school dinners.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

lemonjelly, do you know whther Pns figures include tax or not (I'd really like to know)

Sorry, I didn't realise that's what you were asking, it was late last night and I was busy and ... well, I didn't realise that was the question.

So, no, the figures I gave are net, after tax, what you need to have in your hand figures.

lostinrates

Nothing to apologise for, I was doubtless unclear...it has been known

krisskross

kennyboy66 wrote: »

A rough guess would be that it costs £22bn to raise the threshhold to £10k.

It would probably cost another £25bn to raise it to £15k.

So thats £47 billion to find.

This does no include national insurance which is paid once you earn approx £94 per week.

The idea is right in principle, but will generate many winners and losers.

Politicians avoide policies where a potential headline is:

"Nurse earning £22k with 2 children to be £50 per week worse off"

i didn't actually mean the loss in revenue. I meant simply implementing the change to personal allowances. This would cost next to nothing. Dismantle the complete tax credit empire and go back to having a higher tax free allowance for each child.

Easy to administer, less opportunity for fraud or errors.

treliac

sammyjammy wrote: »

Would be interesting to know the annual cost of running the tax credits system.

Huge .... the mess they've made of ours and the toing and froing of letters that's been going on. The number of changes that have been made to our entitlement and all the letters it's taken to communicate them - one to each of us, A.4 size envelope, every time.

Grrrrrrrrrr. We didn't receive anything for a year having cancelled our claim. Then to cap it all, they quite unexpectedly made two payments this summer, then immediately wrote and asked for them both back!! Then wrote - the standard two A.4 letters yet again - to tell us we were not getting any more. :mad:

I'm gobsmacked with the bureaucratic inefficiency and expense of employing the number of people it must take to churn out all this nonsense.

pipkin71

MrsE wrote: »

Thats why I would never post mine:p

People would tell me manicures & nails weren't essentials:o:eek:

I don't think I would post mine again

I don't do manicures, personally