Sallyx's Sink or Swim, Swimerdy Swim Diary ;)

beanielou

Hope you feel less meh soon hun.
Yes unfortunatly debt has a big impact.
In the main my freiends dont ask me to do things anymo0re which hurts a bit.

sallyx

Its crap isnt it Beanie Just feb up having to say no, or then when I do go they end up doing nice expensive things and I have to opt out...

sallyx

whoops have been a bit awol from here
Not really much to report...skinter than a skint thing from skintland

£34 to last until end of the month

redsquirrel80

sallyx wrote: »

whoops have been a bit awol from here
Not really much to report...skinter than a skint thing from skintland

£34 to last until end of the month

:grouphug: What do you need to buy with that?

sallyx

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

:grouphug: What do you need to buy with that?

food and petol :rotfl:
I don't seem to be very good at the budget malarky...
right off to check my accounts, because Ive done 2 tesco shops one at £27 and one at £32 so I have no idea why I don't have any money :mad:

sallyx

ok need to transfer a bit of money from the one off bills account
i paid for OH's hair cut and B's piano lesson out of shopping money, also waiting for £10 to be transfered back into account from Bingo and I have £6 in my purse.

So £51...sure thats doable for 3 weeks lol

stuffed for March though, have just worked out how much I'll get paid and because its a short month im about £50 down....fed up

sammy115

Sally...just popping in. Haven't forgotten the scan to send you just not got round to sorting out the scanner.

Just read your SOA ...a bit late perhaps now...but I remember a while ago you saying that you weren't entitled to income based JSA because your wage was too high....are you sure or have I missed something. Do they include CTC and WTC ...although thinking about it if you get income based JSA will they just take it off your CTC and WTC payments.!!!!

The benefits system is so stuffed up. I would also renegotiate with the council and CTC people to say that you actually can't afford to pay them back their overpayments at the minute....

sallyx

income based JSA sammy is based on what the law states you need to live on which Is about £100 a week from memory. As I earn approx £430 a month I earn too much. So in fact now OH doesn't get JSA the CTC/WTC went up by a mahooosive £90 a month (compared to the £250 odd he was getting on JSA) and then the lovely housing benefits people said well you get more WTC/CTC now so they took £80 a month off. So in effect we are down £240 a month

Ive paid the Council tax overpayment back as that will have gone out in Jan, Feb and March. The housing benefit overpayment they can swing for...sorry but they are forcing me to live on nothing and while I could go without, I refuse to let B have to eat nothing

Shoe_Gal

Just wanted to say you are doing really well in a tough situation - I really admire you :A

sallyx

Thanks Shoe Gal...
things just seem to get worse at the moment. OH got a letter from insurance to say an independant witness has said he was at fault for his Motorbike accident and they dont think its worth going to court...so that means he won't get the £2000 he is waiting for and I can't pay my mum back. !!!!!! when will it all end