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Chorlie

beller wrote: »

Thank you!

I have enjoyed my life and don't think it has been wasted.
Throwing benefits around. The only benefits I currently receive (did receive ESA) are WTC's of £53 & DLA Low mobility of £19. Not a great deal when you consider that in total we actually have lived, brought up our children and currently live on about £262 a week.

We pay full rent and full council tax which accounts for just under half. Gas & electricity accounts for another £23, food etc £55, water £10, insurance £10. This leaves us about £42. Then you have bus fares, clothes, Christmas & Birthday presents. As you see we just about break even. Been like that all of our lives struggling from year to year. Never being able to have a break or a holiday. (Last one was to a camp site in Somerset 7 years ago for a week and it rained every day!)
When we get to pension age currently I would get about £98 and the wife about £30 (she hasn't worked for nearly 24 years). We would then have to get pension credit to bring our income up to £200, which will be a huge reduction in what we get now!

So where do you get the idea that we have been swamped with benefits?

I've tried to stop posting on here be it's to enjoyable, anyway Mr Troll I've just got you some more money......

http://taxcredits.hmrc.gov.uk/Qualify/DIQHousehold.aspx

It seems your WTC maybe being under paid, just enter some rough details of a disabled person with partner on £10,000 a year and it say you should be getting £4,600 and not the £2,750 you are getting.....plus if your children are under 16 or still in education it could be double that figure.

You state you only claimed low rate Mobility for the WTC, so look into it tomorrow my friend and find out if you're getting the correct amount.

dark_lady

beller wrote: »

Yes I pay council tax.
No not on the electoral roll
No, never voted in my life, don't believe in the system
No, refused to complete the census, returned it completely blank.

My husband says that people who cant be bothered to vote have NO RIGHT to complain about the state this country is in.
He also says its IMPOSSIBLE to be eligible for paying council tax and not be on the electoral roll.
(Hes 61 by the way with loads of experience of life including being a shop steward which he was asked to do in the 80s as the company he was working for was a victim of Thatchers cuts. This involved having to attend uni to study law,health and safety,pensions and pension entitlements etc.)

Chorlie

beller wrote: »

Yes I pay council tax.
No not on the electoral roll
No, never voted in my life, don't believe in the system
No, refused to complete the census, returned it completely blank.

Not sure if you're aware but you could be fined £1,000 for not completing your census....

Chorlie

beller wrote: »

?????????

No children are over 21.

huh! where did you find that out from?

What's happened to the automatic qualification to be treated as disabled by receiving DLA?
There seems to be a test of some sort now.

Thanks, I will check it out in the morning.

I just accepted what the tax man said on the renewal form - I never checked if it was right. I will now!!!

I thought your children would be over 20, it's a shame they don't live at home anymore, so could help you with your living costs...

Chorlie

beller wrote: »

Housing! You try finding a 2 bed place to rent for less than £400 a month! We rent in the poorest area which is rife with crime, drugs etc.

Leisure!! What leisure? Don't drink, don't smoke, can't afford a car. We just about exist from week to week with enough money to buy food and nothing else. (Apart from the Lottery & Mobile Internet Connection)


No! I don't get Council Tax Benefit or Housing Benefit. We live in a 1 bed flat which is rented for just under £400 a month.
No we have never bought a house, we never saw that as a target in life. As long as it has a roof, it doesn't matter where you live. As for renting - yes it is good, non of the agro that goes with owning one.

Well if things get bad, you can move out of your rented 2 bedroom place (or is a 1 bedroom place...!!) and move into a bedsit, not ideal but a man with principals has to do what he has to do, if it saves him some money.

System

dark_lady wrote: »

He also says its IMPOSSIBLE to be eligible for paying council tax and not be on the electoral roll.

He says wrong, the two aren't connected.

Tally-Ho_2

beller wrote: »

Yes I pay council tax.
No not on the electoral roll
No, never voted in my life, don't believe in the system
No, refused to complete the census, returned it completely blank.

Just think yourself lucky you don't live in Scarborough where residents have recently been prosecuted for not completing and returning the Electoral Registration forms.

http://www.scarborough.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=14346

and

http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/seven_fined_for_not_filling_in_electoral_register_forms_1_1882154

refers.

All fined £100 with more than £100 costs each.

No doubt other councils will follow suit both to ensure people are recorded on the electoral roll and to raise an income stream via fines if residents do not register.

birkee

beller wrote: »

But happy with life!

Then why all the whinging?

birkee

beller wrote: »

Because she has a very serious lung condition caused with living in damp and unhygenic conditions for years!!

Because you didn't use your education to better yourself, and work to pay for decent living accomodations? Because you wouldn't work for employers who just wanted to take advantage of you?

YOU did it to her.

birkee

beller wrote: »

Oh yeah!

I have no idea where I was registered. I know when I was born of course, but no idea where my birth was registered.

But anyhow, are you saying that with just my birth certificate I could get a passport, driving licence etc? Don't believe you. If it was that easy, anybody could ask for somebody's birth certificate and create a new identity.
There has to be more to it than that

This just copies what most of your posts have indicated.
You haven't tried, and you can't be bothered.

How do you think I've accumulated my family tree information? I've got certificates of birth going back to the early 1800's.