July benefit challenge -here we go

elantan

please don't give up i just caught onto this thread (saw it a few times last month but just thought don't think i'm ready for that yet) and in a way you've opened my eyes ..i was there years ago but thankfully we had family to help us ..but what if we didn't ...i'm really enjoying it

sammy115

jessicamb wrote:

I dont understand. Am I missing something here?

No but i think Black Saturn is!

Emmzi please don't stop posting. Your posts always cheer me up, and I have had such a s**t time over the last few months that I for one would be devestated if you stopped. Don't forget I had to live on what you are living on. I am one of those people you are supposed to insulting - apparently. Don't let the opinion - and it is only an opinion - of one person upset you.

The other poster was right - if you only help one person you are doing a service to the world. People on here post because they are desperate and it is a last resort.

Now take your head out of your a**e and carry on posting you silly moo.

Sam

summerday

Emmzi, I have been reading your thread with interest, a long while back I had to live on jobseekers allowance etc and I have almost forgotten how hard it is when you're used to earning a wage etc, so if anything I think your posts help enlighten me and anyone else who either hasn't had to live on benefits for a long time or never has. I haven't seen any suggestion on this board (others yes but not DFW) of trying to demean people claiming benefits and nor would I want to. Please, please carry on, I honestly can't see why anyone would have a problem.

At the end of the day whether you have to live on £50 a week or £500 a week its all down to priorities and choices- the choices that people on benefits make vary greatly from person to person, so whatever you choose to spend your money on while you're giving yourself the equivalent to benefits shouldn't upset anyone.

So again I say please carry on- its a perfectly legit thread and if anything more serious could be taken to DT.

Emmzi

black-saturn wrote:

Your obviously not listening to a word I said. Carry on if you so wish.

If you can find a way for me to interpret your view that I and/or this type of thread is "taking the p**s" other than you wish I wasn't doing it, then please tell me. I'm not deliberately trying to misunderstand you, I just don't understand what you would have me do now.

Broken_hearted

Black-saturn can be a little over sensitive. I did point out in an earlier thread that people do have to live on benefits and it is hard. However this thread respects how hard it is and doesn't in any way take the pee. We are all here to help eachother.

Beanietdc

I think you are doing a great thing here Emmzi, I am not on benefits but I was unemployed for a while a couple of years and had I not got a job before my redundancy pay ran out then I would be in exactly this situation. :eek:

I was really worried about it at the time and threads like this just bring it home to me that I was right to be worried. You are opening a lot of peoples eyes to what it is really like to be on benefits because I just don't think a lot of people understand (me included).

I love coming by and reading the updates and taking tips from what you are up to.

Keep at it!

:kisses:

Spendless

troo wrote:

£378.21 per month for us - 2 adults and 2 teens.

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troo where did you find this out? I looked on the entitledto site but I couldn't find a calculator for if you were out of work . Think I might give this a try and shock Mr Spendless of how drastically our income would be cut if he were to lose his job.

Penny-Pincher!!

Emmzi-Please dont stop posting! Ive been reading this thread with interest and think its a great thread. I dont find it offensive at all and dont really understand how anyone can Maybe Im missing something?

Over the past 12 months we have had to give up work (im now quite ill) was on about 50k before that. OH is my FT carer now blah blah blah:rolleyes: We are now recieving income of state benefits only and it is tough compared to our normal income, but we have managed well and have cut our cloth accordingly.

I think if your used to spending more than the JSA amount weekly, then this is a great goal to work towards!

Hope it goes well for you and anyone else completing this challenge:D

PP
xx

tru

Spendless wrote:

troo where did you find this out? I looked on the entitledto site but I couldn't find a calculator for if you were out of work . Think I might give this a try and shock Mr Spendless of how drastically our income would be cut if he were to lose his job.

£57.50 per week JSA each for me and mr troo - I took the amount from Emmzi's first post. I put that neither of us worked, didn't earn anything in 2005/2006 then it told us how much CTC we'd get. I added the child benefit that I get now, though son's stops in september. I can't remember all the info I entered into the calculator - I should have kept a note of it. Then I worked it all out into monthly amounts.

Oh please don't tell me I've done it wrong

Spendless

troo wrote:

£57.50 per week JSA each for me and mr troo - I took the amount from Emmzi's first post. I put that neither of us worked, didn't earn anything in 2005/2006 then it told us how much CTC we'd get. I added the child benefit that I get now, though son's stops in september. I can't remember all the info I entered into the calculator - I should have kept a note of it. Then I worked it all out into monthly amounts.

Oh please don't tell me I've done it wrong

probably;) cos I don't think a couple could have 2 x single JSA. I'd have thought it would be less in the same way a married pension is less than 2 xsingle pension and with the kids you'd probably have to go on IS instead and I'm sure I've read something about they include child benefit in this amount when on IS(which isn't fair cos for everyone else it isn't counted but that's another thread).

But I tried it your way anyway troo:p and just putting 0 salary in entitledto give me about £155 a week not including CB.

Can any member who is or has been on benefits help out with amounts please?