Taxpayer funds familys £1,600 per week rent - The Times

carolt

Hard to read your figures, lir - is that £18,942 annual income on top of £5,860 child benefit on top of HB of £83,220? Plus some more to make it up to Total Entitlements of £113,339. Plus no council tax bill, free school meals, free prescriptions, etc....

Remind me why I bother working again?

So that's 30 grand a year on top of the mansions - excuse me, TWO mansions - to live in, plus no council tax, prescriptions costs, free school meals, etc etc etc. No tax to pay.

Wow, we really are a nation of bloody mugs to let this kind of thing go on.

Have to agree with Harry - no wonder they're all flocking here. Who wouldn't? Bloody madness.

Harry_Powell

lostinrates wrote: »

<Stunning figures from LiR>

Gaining asylum status in the UK is better than winning the lottery.

Harry_Powell

zygurat789 wrote: »

These figures are non taxable and to get this in your pay packet you would need to earn £176,630 pa.

I wonder how many tax payers it takes to fund one Somalian family?

It's like one of those bad 'lightbulb' jokes, except this really isn't funny. I'm going to have to go and have a lie down or something, I'm absolutely raging here!!! :mad::mad::mad:

lostinrates

carolt wrote: »

Hard to read your figures, lir - is that £18,942 annual income on top of £5,860 child benefit on top of HB of £83,220? Plus some more to make it up to Total Entitlements of £113,339. Plus no council tax bill, free school meals, free prescriptions, etc....

Remind me why I bother working again?

So that's 30 grand a year on top of the mansions - excuse me, TWO mansions - to live in, plus no council tax, prescriptions costs, free school meals, etc etc etc.

Wow, we really are a nation of bloody mugs to let this kind of thing g on.

Have to agree with Harry - no wonder they're all flocking here. Bloody madness.

Actually, they would get more than that in ''payment in kind'' because the details of the second property etc are not included in that calculation, nor the council tax for both properties. (why the one of us with the broken brain sort to provide any useful information I don't know!, I couldn't work out how to add details of secon property, nor remembe them to simply add them to the first one and treat as one property...so we have to remember that in trying to evaluate this.)

I know they are hard to read, the formating of the tables was lost (it would be beter if I new how to keep the formatting, but the first set of figures I read as flawed, the annual amount was less than the weekly amount ).

Zygorat798, can you add the tax back on to your figure please...so I can see what the salary of the job(s) would be listed as? (also worth considering that soon that will be under the 50% tax bracket if one job, not two: child care for up to 8 children might be worth considering if we are sayong it is two jobs, not one.)

ILW

Average worker on say £25,000pa would pay about £4000 per year in tax.
That means nearly 30 people go to work every day to pay tax which does nothing but fund this family. Please can someone explain how this situation has arisen?

Harry_Powell

Lets not forget that the accomodation would also need to be funished with beds and sofas (the one the grinning fool is sitting on looks like leather) no doubt we all paid for that too.

No, I'm really going now, my health is in peril!

carolt

ILW wrote: »

Average worker on say £25,000pa would pay about £4000 per year in tax.
That means nearly 30 people go to work every day to pay tax which does nothing but fund this family. Please can someone explain how this situation has arisen?

That is shocking. :eek::eek::eek:

I am genuinely shocked.

How can this happen?

Has the world been going slowly bonkers while I wasn't looking?

ILW

I am not that political, but this has to fall at the door of this government. I cannot see who else could have allowed this situation to happen.

mitchaa

Child tax credit is £2,235 per child

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/rates/taxcredits.htm

8 x £2,235 = £17,880.
1 x £545 = £545
Total award for CTC = £18,425 (£1535pm)
CB = 1x£20 + 6 x £13.20 x 52 = £5,158 (£430pm)
IS payments for a couple = £101pw x 52 = £5,252 (£438pm)

So as well as getting free housing and council tax worth £86,200 (£83,200 + £3k CT) they receive £28,835 in cash. (£2400 every month)

Approx total benefit bill = £115k pa

Just to put that figure into perspective, the family would have to earn £185k pa in order just to match the current lifestyle they have if they wanted to come off of benefits

Above does not include milk tokens/school dinners/prescriptions etc which no doubt is another couple of £k on top.

Is it a wonder we are £800bn in debt when we have a system as crazy as this.

mitchaa

I mean, who on here clears £1600pw after tax?

Anyone at all on £130,500pa?

Anyone?