Improve Money Rules In 50 Words. Suggest easy changes for our politicians

margihome

shropshire_lass wrote: »

As a carer you are allowed to earn up to £101 a week. Go over this and the allowance stops.
The minimum wage is increased twice a year. The earnings limit for cares allowance is raised in April, but NOT every year. This limit should change with the minimum wage!

What carer has the time to work? When I was caring for my mother, I worked a minimum of 12 hours per day, 7 days a week, plus call out duties during the night. When I looked after my father and sister for the 6 months when they were dying, I had to be available 24 hours a day, sleeping on the floor in their house, when I got the chance.
What is needed is a proper wage for carers.:mad:

david_grant

Put up Interest rates. It will make people think twice about borrowing and reward people who have savings for a change !!!!!!!

MARSHY

When you phone any company and it asks you to press 1 for accounts 2 for sales etc, there should be a number to press to actually speak to a human. I know this won't save the government money, but it'll certainly save me money.

GeorgeAC

The Lottery should be Nationalised. All profits could go to the health service for example.

Also, reduce the number of M.Ps. I`m 64 and have never needed one. Then the civil servants would do more to earn their wages.

Have the people on JSA sweeping the streets for their money.

mimarb

I agree the Government needs to save money on Public Sector Pensions but feel that those already receiving them should not have the way they are calculated changed. After all this was the terms under which they enroled.

tanyaf

We shouldn't pay a percentage of our tax bill in advance estimated on our last year's earnings. We haven't earned that money yet to pay the tax on it. This puts people under unnecessary worry and stress so that the government makes extra interest on our money, it is unfair.

capondoug

REDUCE school holidays and SHORTEN the attendance day, giving same annual education hours.
PROVIDE early & back-shift lessons, giving higher buildings & equipment utilisation & reducing capital & expense.
MINIMISE teachers numbers by using professional presenters online / DVD, giving content consistency, pupils' choice of presenter & opportunity to rerun.

mlwatts

When buying an online bargain all savings can be lost by cost of returning a faulty item. How about a (very small) fee on all online purchases (effectively an insurance) so entire return costs do not have to be borne by those unlucky enough to receive the substandard goods. Then everyone pays the same.

mlwatts

Simplify_Life wrote: »

Peter Zed: Conversely, if the higher income earner is able to retain a higher net income, then they would be more willing, and have more funds to pay a higher rate for "their services" and thus increase the people supplying the service. As the taxation system stands, their is NO incentive to succeed. And how do you determine whether people have far higher income than their needs. If you adopt this stance then we will have to impose regional pay bands for the disparity in regional living costs which is huge even in a small country as the UK.

In my experience those on high level earnings rarely EARN much of it. IF they paid less tax and retained more of their "earnings" I doubt very much this would lead to higher pay for low wage earners - it's the nature of the wealthy to pay out as little as possible. Determining if they have a far higher income than their needs is easy - the govt have calculated it's about £65 a week, as determined by JSA!

duckysdebt

Instead of councils spending on countless amounts of recycling bins sat cluttering our streets. Scrap the bins and make the recycling process an ACTUAL job. The household rubbish is bagged in appropriately coloured liners by householders then put in the one bin. The bin men then collect, the rubbish goes off, is sorted by people employed to do it. Give the job to the benefit scroungers make them earn a salary