Please can someone check our budget for us?

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Katie1978 wrote: »

Thanks for having a look for me - we don't have to pay for our prescriptions or dentist because of our benefits and we don't have any contents insurance cos we can't afford it! Should I include anyway or be honest?

please whatever you ditch get some contents insurance,depending on where you live it could cost less than £1.50 a week
as for landline at £29 a month is this with bt?if so dont you have the all inclusive(well almost all)package at 4.99 month for calls?

kepar

Katie we can only advise on here, a lot of experts who can and will help are unsure of the new rules which came in on Dec 1st. Posters will give you information as to limits and what is acceptable under the old format, but are unsure as to what will/will not be allowed.

From your figures I believe £650 is too high for groceries.
You need to get your figures down , because you are showing a deficit.

As stated previously posters can only guide you, the figures you write down actually mean nothing , because the OR during their interview with you will go through it. So keep the figures at hand to use, but remember the OR does not have to allow them.

Katie1978

Great, thanks for all the advice everybody.

jetr77

Hi we had our interview today, there are 2adult 2children in our household, i put £600 for groceries and this was cut to £499, said that was the new guideline from 1dec, I put £80 for holiday and £120 for clothing they were both allowed also i put £60 for our 2mobiles and £20 landline this was cut to £55 max for total phone cost. Hope this helps