Its a wonderful life... Want to try.....?? A Single parents View.. !!xx!

viktory

black-saturn wrote:

Yes it sounds like she sat around watching trisha until her OH came along and bucked her up.

Do you actually read any posts? Seems to me you simply pick the ones that you can actually respond to and ignore the others.

If you had read my posts earlier you would seen that the above is not the case.

viktory

westernpromise wrote:

She doesn't have a problem. She is in on the dole and quite happy.

Yeah, it's called scrounging off the taxpayer.

Anthillmob

lil_me wrote:

A brief SOA of a friend who is a single parent of 3
£ 1130 (Income Support inc Incapacity Benefit)
£ 315 DLA
£ 160 (well £40 something a week)
Total Benefits (4 weekly)
£1605


Rent - paid by housing benefit
Council Tax - paid for by benefit

Pays for

Gas
Elec
TV Licence
NTL
Water rates

£135 a month

Leaving £1470 for food clothes etc if she doesn't have £700 left over a month I would be shocked. So yes some do have more disposable income than others. Before anyone mentions it I know this isn't the situation of all single parents.

It is also sometimes easier said than done to find employment which pays enough to cover childcare costs aswell as provide for a family.

jesus thats more than myself and my partner earn together in a month!

im off to hand in my notice,.

westernpromise

cupid_stunt wrote:

I think that the government has it all wrong. People should be made better off by working but in so many cases they lose benefits so are worse off. The government should make up your wages so you're better off working.

Except the government doesn't want you to be better off working. It wants you to be reliant on state benefits so you will continue to vote for them. That's why it continues to import as much poverty as possible from eastern Europe and the Third World.

According to a recent study, about 67% of the economy of Ulster, 57% or so of Scotland and 50% of the economy of the north-east is actually state spending. That is, the money in circulation is not actually created wealth. It's money raised through taxation of the Midlands and south, but spent outside those regions, in the form of the dole and the public payroll.

And that is the whole idea: it's the payroll vote. Keep 'em poor and they'll keep voting for the handouts, never realising that it's the handouts keeping them poor.

sammyy

Edinburghlass wrote:

Despite your education you have in previous posts stated you have never "had much luck" with jobs and now stay at home to look after your children and do "menial little homeworking jobs" so in the past 4/5 years you have got a mortgage, presumably while on benefits, and have paid it off. Perhaps you could share exactly how you did this?

I'm a little confused too.If someone can buy and pay off an entire mortgage in 5 years(would someone on benefits even get a mortgage?) then life on benefits can't be all bad.And how can someone proclaim to be a single parent when they have a fiancé and are saving towards a wedding?I would have thought that would be classed as being part of a couple Maybe I need to buy a new dictionary.

To all the truly struggling single parents on the board I take my hat off to you.It is not a position that I would like to find myself in.Aside from the money angle just having no-one to share the load with must be hard going.

astonsmummy

Anthillmob wrote:

jesus thats more than myself and my partner earn together in a month!

im off to hand in my notice,.

Not everyone gets DLA, when i was on IS i got around £125pw
so £500 4 weekly (for one child)

Anthillmob

lil_me wrote:

I was shocked that they blatenty wasted the loan on nights out then complained about being broke. They had a better social life than me.

But like someone said it's too broad a thing to look at with a documentary of 2 people out of millions.

I bet they left out a lot of the nicer moments they had with their children to concentrate on where they wasted money.

here here. ive said that on DT. it didnt go down too well. why should our taxes go towards someones night on the lash? i dont care shes paying it back (at a paltry amount each week).

IMHO social fund payments are for essentials and not for p*ssing up the wall in nightclubs and buying yourself clothes. get your kids clothes by all means.

i had a SF payment years ago when i first moved here as i was on IB. i had to fight to get that money. £500 to decorate (this place was a sh*thole) and carpet throughout as the council had completely gutted it. i didnt spend one penny on a night out or clothes.

astonsmummy

sammyy wrote:

To all the truly struggling single parents on the board I take my hat off to you.It is not a position that I would like to find myself in.Aside from the money angle just having no-one to share the load with must be hard going.

I'm glad u have said that, people gripe and moan about how us single parents get this and that - they dont realise how extremely lonely and hard it can be, DS dad left me when i was pregnant and i hve never had a bf since, I went 18 months with on average 3 to 4 hours sleep a night (4 if i was lucky) i have spent numerous occasions sitting in hospital due to some health reason or another with DS, sat in the bathroom steaming him at 3am because he cant sleep due to coughing, As far as sitting around all day watching trisha - not in my house! chance would be a fine thing.
I am not moaning about my situation, at the end of the day i wanted spud so i deal with it, and wouldnt change him for any amount of money i'm just making the point that were not all lazy scroungers who do nothing all day

black-saturn

westernpromise wrote:

I don't want to pay for you to idle when you could perfectly well work.

Could we please get one thing straight, I AM working and I AM NOT on any benefits so your not paying for me.

black-saturn

Edinburghlass wrote:

Despite your education you have in previous posts stated you have never "had much luck" with jobs and now stay at home to look after your children and do "menial little homeworking jobs" so in the past 4/5 years you have got a mortgage, presumably while on benefits, and have paid it off. Perhaps you could share exactly how you did this?

One day I might but like how viktory didnt want to share her SOA I don't want everyone to know how I did this either. Are you following all my posts again?