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MSE Parents Club Part 15

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  • SugarSpun
    SugarSpun Posts: 8,559 Forumite
    :rotfl: BM they'll be hammering down your door!

    Jillie, I am harassing you on FB.
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  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    I'll just say I'm a virgin, sell myself on ebay......£500,000. I can grow a new hymen with wishful thinking :D
  • jillie1974
    jillie1974 Posts: 6,997 Forumite
    SugarSpun wrote: »
    :rotfl:
    Jillie, I am harassing you on FB.

    nah...just stopping me getting my npower refund.

    thanks i feel much better now :j
    'Children are not things to be moulded, but are people to be unfolded'
  • SugarSpun
    SugarSpun Posts: 8,559 Forumite
    I'll just say I'm a virgin, sell myself on ebay......£500,000. I can grow a new hymen with wishful thinking :D

    Best clear away Keira's stuff or they'll be suspicious.
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  • jillie1974
    jillie1974 Posts: 6,997 Forumite
    ok am off out now. chat later
    x
    'Children are not things to be moulded, but are people to be unfolded'
  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    SugarSpun wrote: »
    Best clear away Keira's stuff or they'll be suspicious.
    I stole her from netto, that's why she won't eat nice foods you see.

    How dare she say my falafels tasted like poop. :mad:
  • SusanC_2
    SusanC_2 Posts: 5,344 Forumite
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    They have made it so couples have to be working 24hrs to claim WTC, joint hours whatever, does that apply to single parents? Cause Im struggling to find a job I can do with Keira right now, if I have to work 24 hours im going to be so screwed.
    They may have different rules for single parents. Although I thought the whole point of TCs was to make sure it was more worthwhile working then being "on benefits" and I think you can get benefits if you work under 16 hours per week (or at least I still got my contribution based JSA) so it messes that up a bit. All this social control through benefits and taxation gets very complicated.
    Any question, comment or opinion is not intended to be criticism of anyone else.
    2 Samuel 12:23 Romans 8:28 Psalm 30:5
    "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die"
  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    I know I could sit on benefits Susan, but I really don't want too, as I will be better off working 16 hours, they are lobbing everyone onto JSA as soon as their youngest child turns 5 aswell so, might aswell get there first! :p
  • delain
    delain Posts: 7,700 Forumite
    I know I could sit on benefits Susan, but I really don't want too, as I will be better off working 16 hours, they are lobbing everyone onto JSA as soon as their youngest child turns 5 aswell so, might aswell get there first! :p

    And I was told when I went for a lone parent interview back in the day that if you're 5 minutes late to sign on they don't let you and you get no money :eek: That was a fair while ago though, maybe they have grown a conscience since then :p
    Mum of several with a twisted sense of humour and a laundry obsession :o:o
  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    delain wrote: »
    And I was told when I went for a lone parent interview back in the day that if you're 5 minutes late to sign on they don't let you and you get no money :eek: That was a fair while ago though, maybe they have grown a conscience since then :p
    I doubt it :p If they mess up your money (often) what are you supposed to do if you are living hand to mouth? (likely if you are on t'dole)

    I remember when we were on joint JSA, we got a whopping £170 a fortnight, that's less than if you were singly claiming, so what, do you eat less if you are single :p
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