Advice on WTC and CTC please

gorgeousgeorge

Yes I understand that karen, I think she is just so fed up about such a dramatic cut in her money. Her daughter is only earning £95 a week, and after both of them pay out travelling to work, its really putting a load on her shoulders

karenx

Can she not get a full time job then to make up for the loss?

gorgeousgeorge

Not really, she has been working at our local pharmacy for the last 4 years and is very happy there, and is also training to be a dispenser which her boss is paying for. Perhaps when she gets all her qualifications she might go somewhere else, but he has been very good to her and she is a very loyal and hard worker, also its easier said then done to get full time work these days,
thanks for your replies anyway

calleyw

I am slightly confused what was your SIL going to do when her daughter turned 19 in a years time. She would have had the same drop in income. All that has happened is that has come early.

I find it strange that people don't seem to plan ahead. You SIL must have realised about the drop in benefits.

There is no reason why a fit and healthy adult should not work to support themselves.

Yours

Calley

gorgeousgeorge

I think she was hoping that her daughter would go into a better paid job after finishing her college course. It all came as bit of a shock to her, with her daughter leaving college like that, and she wasnt prepared, which she would have been if her daughter had stayed on and finished her college course ( which was a sports course...but has taken an apprentiship in a salon, god knows why, but thats teens for you! ) and SIL knew that benefits would be reduced accordingly..

I agree that all fit and healthy adults should be supporting themselves, even if they only have to get some sort of work, but it seems to me that some lazy !!!!!!s prefer to be on absolutely benefit that they can get their hands on because they will be so much better off than people who work hard for a living :mad: Those on benefits should have a reduction every month to force them into work.

Thanks for your reply anyway