breadline

moisieone

Does anyone know what a couple's income is, to be on the Breadline?

Indie_Kid

It depends - how many children for whom you receive child tax credit for, disabilities, etc.

starchild1972

It used to be the amount of income related jobseekers (currently £102.75 for couple over 18) you would be entitled to plus housing & council tax benefit for suitable size accomodation.
The "poverty threshold" is £100 pw after housing costs.

It depends what you mean by breadline.

[Deleted User]

"poverty"threshold is 2 thirds of national average pay,anyone living on less than that,inc ALL benefits is living in poverty or if you like below the breadline,if i recall rightly the figure of aroune £230 a week

Indie_Kid

woodbine wrote: »

"poverty"threshold is 2 thirds of national average pay,anyone living on less than that,inc ALL benefits is living in poverty or if you like below the breadline,if i recall rightly the figure of aroune £230 a week

Is that for a single person?

Sixer

There isn't one definition of breadline or of poverty.

However, the one used for poverty by the UK government currently, as defined in, for example, The Child Poverty Act 2010, is "households with an income below 60% of the median, before housing costs".

This is one definition of what's known as relative, rather than absolute, poverty. Breadline, I would guess, refers more to absolute poverty. Rowntree or a similar type of foundation, might have a current definition for that?

Sixer

Ah. Here we are:

http://www.poverty.ac.uk/income_threshold_approach.php

This gives 60% of median household income in the UK in 2009 as £206 per week.

[Deleted User]

sh1305 wrote: »

Is that for a single person?

household,which is normally taken to mean 2 adults and 1 or 2 kids

Kellynov1978

I'm not being funny here but how can anyone on benefits be classed as living in poverty???? My sister has never worked, has 5 kids, a 4 bed detatched house with a garage that she gets full HB and CTB for and she gets over £600 a week in tax credits and benefits on top of that!! It makes me sick, my husband is working in a job he hates just to make ends meet for us, its a joke!!!

Indie_Kid

Kellynov1978 wrote: »

I'm not being funny here but how can anyone on benefits be classed as living in poverty???? My sister has never worked, has 5 kids, a 4 bed detatched house with a garage that she gets full HB and CTB for and she gets over £600 a week in tax credits and benefits on top of that!! It makes me sick, my husband is working in a job he hates just to make ends meet for us, its a joke!!!

Surely it depends on their personal situation? Not everyone receives a lot in benefits.

Kellynov1978

Sorry for the rant just then, I do understand many people out there genuinely have no choice but to claim benefits, but it just makes me so mad that others see it as an easy lifestyle choice, at the moment my sister is busy spending her children's benefit money on her wedding to her partner (who also doesn't work!!) and her honeymoon in Greece!!! :mad: