Emergency Budget: tax credit cuts for millions

joanne_d_3

sh1305 wrote: »

Don't moan about those who do claim it and the associated benefits then!

Sh1305 - You seem to follow me around the boards giving your opinion.....opinions which i have already told you i dont give a stuff about!

Do me a favour and bog off !!!!!

Indie_Kid

debrag wrote: »

I know that just depends what it is meant to cover - care, medicine...

A friend of mine got full DLA but spent it all on going out & having a good time. needed no special equipment, care etc

Would medicine be free anyways?

One friend can't walk, uses a weel chair, had cancer etc but still manages to work full time.

I do feel (having a go at the system not any posters) that once your medicine is covered, your house in sorted, you have everything to live a 'normal' life and CAN work then you should.

Medicine is free for those on a low income.

Your last paragraph makes no sense - how does your house being sorted make you magically better?

debrag

sh1305 wrote: »

Medicine is free for those on a low income.

Your last paragraph makes no sense - how does your house being sorted make you magically better?

equipment wise I mean if you need it.

Indie_Kid

debrag wrote: »

equipment wise I mean if you need it.

Which doesn't help those of us in constant pain.

flight747

I use my DLA to pay for Skyworld with ESPN with HD, 3D & Multiroom with sky talk unlimited with line rental and sky broadband up to 20Meg at £106 per month.

Indie_Kid

joanne_d wrote: »

Sh1305 - You seem to follow me around the boards giving your opinion.....opinions which i have already told you i dont give a stuff about!

Do me a favour and bog off !!!!!

It's a free country.

debrag

sh1305 wrote: »

Which doesn't help those of us in constant pain.

I am talking about those who CAN work.

DX2

flight747 wrote: »

I pay my DLA for special interpreter, paying expensive phone bills (using text relay service from typetalk as it take more longer calls on textphone) paying taxi to fetch and drop my son to school every days. Paying my hearing aids batteries at boots (as NHS batteries is no longer in my local GP)

If you have a disabled child the education authority should be paying for transport. You also mentioned free laptop and internet it's over.

MissMoneypenny

tizzy333 wrote: »

they take fruit juice (not cheap) to drink

Fruit juice is not very good for teeth and neither is it thirst quenching. Water is a better option and cheaper too.

Coralie_P

I just read on MoneySavingExpert.com about the changes in tax credits that the chancellor didn't mention that are going to come in to play for those earning £25k and over. I am a single parent with 2 young kids just under that threshold by £200. If I am lucky enough to get my bonus which isn't much more than £1500 it obviously pushes me over.

Can anyone tell me if it is just the basic family element that is going to drop over the next few years to just £549 approx or is that the total amount of what I might expect to get - ie that will include the child elements too? I can't get any help from my ex because he is unemployed so this is causing a great deal of worry and stress, what with a mortgage and bills to pay. I can imagine there are many people out there in a similar situation feeling the same way as me. Thanks in anticipation