housing benefit ?

DaisyFlower

janey70 wrote: »

be more degrading if i sat on my backside all day claming benefits wouldnt it ? at least i work and provide for my children and pay towards my rent and council tax dont get it all free !

But you're hardly providing for them given you get far more in benefits than you earn and work the bare minimum hours you can get away with.

Its not a great example to set to children is it.

mazza111

This holier than thou attitude makes me sick!

You don't know how this woman found herself to be a single parent and in need of benefits! Maybe there is only part time work available in her area? God knows I've been looking for full time work for almost 4 years now, which I would gladly take, even though I would be better off staying as I am, working part time and getting topped up with WTC and CTC. Remember some single parents don't have family support to enable them to work full time. I certainly wouldn't have my 14 year old come home on the bus or walk to school because it's a real rough area, but luckily enough his father lives nearby the school so he could go there instead of home. Not everyone is lucky enough to have the perfect family where we don't need benefits. I know if my x was paying for his children then I probably wouldn't need to work fulltime OR RELY on WTC/CTC.


Jenny I'm thinking the HB team have noticed that your eldest of an age where she should be paying her way, give them a call on monday, as she's still in ft education, sure it will get sorted out. FT work is classed anywhere between 35 - 40 hours.


Jenny came here looking for advice, not for abuse for working part time. You don't know her circumstances. Yes, it comes across as why should I work more, but come on, would many of us work for nothing?

Oldernotwiser

I assume from you're name that you're about 40 - surely you don't want to work as a part time cleaner for the next 30 years?

While you're only working part time, why don't you train for a new career to give more satisfaction to the rest of your life? As you're on benefits there may be lots of financial help for this, particularly if you don't have many qualifications already.

Oldernotwiser

mazza111 wrote: »

Yes, it comes across as why should I work more, but come on, would many of us work for nothing?

Nobody expects anyone to work for nothing; but being self sufficient is always a good thing to aim for, particularly at the moment when the whole benefit system is likely to be reduced.

Sam____2

mazza111 wrote: »

This holier than thou attitude makes me sick!

You don't know how this woman found herself to be a single parent and in need of benefits! Maybe there is only part time work available in her area? God knows I've been looking for full time work for almost 4 years now, which I would gladly take, even though I would be better off staying as I am, working part time and getting topped up with WTC and CTC. Remember some single parents don't have family support to enable them to work full time. I certainly wouldn't have my 14 year old come home on the bus or walk to school because it's a real rough area, but luckily enough his father lives nearby the school so he could go there instead of home. Not everyone is lucky enough to have the perfect family where we don't need benefits. I know if my x was paying for his children then I probably wouldn't need to work fulltime OR RELY on WTC/CTC.


Jenny I'm thinking the HB team have noticed that your eldest of an age where she should be paying her way, give them a call on monday, as she's still in ft education, sure it will get sorted out. FT work is classed anywhere between 35 - 40 hours.


Jenny came here looking for advice, not for abuse for working part time. You don't know her circumstances. Yes, it comes across as why should I work more, but come on, would many of us work for nothing?

14 is more than old enough to look after themselves for a few hours, nobody works for nothing it's called wages instead of benefits, if there is no reason why you can't work full time and part time wages don't pay enough, then work more hours, pretty simple really!!!

janey70

mazza thankyou you took all the words out of my mouth they dont no me and why im a single mother i came on here for advice instead i have been belittled by saying that im basically lazy and a sponger and should work more hours and a bad influence to my girls!!! i get nothing from the girls father who chosses to sit and sponge off the state claiming he is depressed and drinks all day !
i dont mind cleaning and would gladly sweep streets or anything as long as it was a job people will always need cleaners as far as im concerned !
so please if u have nothing helpful to reply PLEASE dont bother atall :mad:

Duncombe

janey70 wrote: »

my daughter does have a weekend job , when i first started working nearly 3 years ago the more hours i did more i had to pay so in end if i did 18 or more hours would be no better off than i was doing 16 i was working for nothing i have been thinking about doing more hours but dont no how many hours full time is ? and with one child still in school and me on minium wage would i really be a lot better off this is the whole point of getting people out to work by making them better off than claming benefits

As someone else commented, FT hours would be around 40 a week. Thats about £240 a week on minimum wage. Add onto that WTC and CTC and CB. I assume that would be more than you are currently claiming on benefits?

Yes, you wouldn't get as much of your rent and council tax paid - but you would be able to pay for it yourself from money you had earned. As your daughter is a grown adultM - perhaps she could contribute a small amount towards her keep? Alot of 19 years olds have to do this.

I fully understand you wanting to have as much money as possible but, like I said earlier - the benefit system is changing (and as your daughters get older, so is your entitlment) and you will not be able to sustain youself working only 16 hours a week. If you start looking for FT emplyoment now it will make the transition off benefits easier.

ONW's suggestion of training to improve qualifications is a good one - is this something you would consider?

Mazza - no one has even mentioned the fact she is a single parent so don't go down that avenue. The point people have raised is that she is a single parent with 2 grown children only working 16 hours a week. I have tried to explain how, financially, her situation will get much worse if she doesnt up the number of hours she works.

McKneff

You cant dictate who does and doesnt post on these threads, good or bad.

jonnyboy82

same old MSE she gets all the answers apart from the one she asked for.
any one else wants to tell her how to live her life?

McKneff

jonnyboy82 wrote: »

same old MSE she gets all the answers apart from the one she asked for.
any one else wants to tell her how to live her life?

She can live her life how she wants as long as she doesnt expect me to fund it.