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AngelBadger

Cardew wrote: »

If I had an income of £64.50 a week, the internet might be low on my list of priorities.

What if you were tied into a contract?

Cardew

AngelBadger wrote: »

What if you were tied into a contract?

Do you mean like her gas and electricity contracts?;)

nordtraveller

I have the same problem as the OP.

Having ago at people who haven't got the money to pay extortionate Direct Debits - Doesn't help anyone!

Plushchris

nordtraveller wrote: »

I have the same problem as the OP.

Having ago at people who haven't got the money to pay extortionate Direct Debits - Doesn't help anyone!

But on the flipside of the coin, using gas and electricity you cant afford to pay for doesnt help anyone either does it?

Just because you dont pay for it in advance like you do with most other things, doesnt mean you can then complain about having to pay for when you have used it.

If you feel the DDs are set too high then contact the supplier to see if there is anything they can do to help but bear in mind what has been used needs to be paid for.

As others have said above, this has been a cold winter so people should have been expecting higher bills and planning ahead for the bills coming in either by saving a bit of money up or by cutting their usage down.

zanzen4

to Kim Yeovil, your information is not correct kim, you do have to pay for fuel ect when you are on jsa, i know a number of people out of work at present and it is not easy to manage on £ 64 a week, pensioners also have to pay fuel bills and water bills, although when on state retirement pension you do get a one off payment around november of £200 a couple, to help with a winter bill.If you are out of work you get some of your rent paid and council tax, but you do not get free utilities.

KimYeovil

zanzen4 wrote: »

to Kim Yeovil, your information is not correct kim, you do have to pay for fuel ect when you are on jsa, i know a number of people out of work at present and it is not easy to manage on £ 64 a week, pensioners also have to pay fuel bills and water bills, although when on state retirement pension you do get a one off payment around november of £200 a couple, to help with a winter bill.If you are out of work you get some of your rent paid and council tax, but you do not get free utilities.

You receive a payment of £128.60 every fortnight. £130.90 from next month. Your utilities are free if they are paid from this. Plenty of working people have a lot less than £64.30 per week left over to live on. Nobody says it is easy to live on £64.30.

And if you are on a retirement pension then you have more than enough money to live on - your benefit doubles!

BargainGalore

Who told you this (in bold)

You might get help with council tax, maybe housing but never heard that you get your utility bills paid

I agree £64 isnt a lot to live off but as far as I am aware your £64 has to pay for food, utilities and perhaps something towards housing

zanzen4 wrote: »

to Kim Yeovil, your information is not correct kim, you do have to pay for fuel ect when you are on jsa, i know a number of people out of work at present and it is not easy to manage on £ 64 a week, pensioners also have to pay fuel bills and water bills, although when on state retirement pension you do get a one off payment around november of £200 a couple, to help with a winter bill.If you are out of work you get some of your rent paid and council tax, but you do not get free utilities.

Sultan3

KimYeovil wrote: »

Nothing to do with them being African. I'd be more than happy if estates in Britain were farmed for truants of the unemployed to be shipped off to harvest cacao beans.

Enough said.

minjara

So many hateful comments when the whole situation is not known. Take myself and my partner at the moment. Both of us were in good jobs. He has severe ulcerative colitis and since jan last year he has got worse and worse, then got given the boot by his employer from his £27,000 job by them not following the DDA properly, mortgage fallen behind, money piles, the small savings used. Myself, I've just been diagnosed in Jan this year with severe IBS and now find myself with agrophobia and anxiety because of it. Everything in our life has just fallen apart around our ears because of anomolies in the ESA system that has taken over from incapacity. No one at DWP knows what they are talking about, you go on to contribution based for life which gives you no help towards the mortgage, fuel and more importantly, our prescriptions at the moment as my partners crrently taking a cocktail of 30+ a day. Only the guy I spoke to today actually cared about the situation and thinks that ESA is so screwed up. My partner has now fallen into psychiatric help having been diagnosed as depressed with psychotic episodes and I'm trying to stay strong and support all the pieces and bills. All I can say to the bitter people on here as well is please don't be in peoples faces without knowing a bit more of the story, prejudice is something that isn't needed, especially here, thanks

Minjara

peachyprice

BargainGalore wrote: »

Who told you this (in bold)

You might get help with council tax, maybe housing but never heard that you get your utility bills paid

I agree £64 isnt a lot to live off but as far as I am aware your £64 has to pay for food, utilities and perhaps something towards housing

I think Kim yeovil means 'you' don't pay for it, the tax payer does.