Tax credits, is this true?

The_Write_Girl

OP - I completely agree with you. People who have worked and paid tax all their lives get sod all! Hubby and I have never received a penny in benefit. Our first £20 was a few weeks ago when Baby was born! I'm on SMP while paying a mortgage, bills etc, and we're not entitled to any tax credits.

Silly us for getting an education - huh?

BrettMorganxD

The_Write_Girl wrote: »

OP - I completely agree with you. People who have worked and paid tax all their lives get sod all! Hubby and I have never received a penny in benefit. Our first £20 was a few weeks ago when Baby was born! I'm on SMP while paying a mortgage, bills etc, and we're not entitled to any tax credits.

Silly us for getting an education - huh?

My cousin is on stat maternity pay as well. It is only £107 a week and she too cannot get any benefit as her boyfriend earns too much.

Yet her friend has never worked and gets 18k in benefit

merlin68

Tax credits is to give people a basic standard of living, not to give the rich pocket money. LOL.
Not everybody earns more than the minimum wage.

BrettMorganxD

merlin68 wrote: »

Tax credits is to give people a basic standard of living, not to give the rich pocket money. LOL.
Not everybody earns more than the minimum wage.

To be fair, minimum wage gives you a basic standard of living. I lived fine on it.

merlin68

Your single, you haven't got 2 teenagers.
You also haven't got rent and council tax to pay.

mildred1978

OP, if your OH is earning £7k per year he isn't even paying tax*. So between you you're paying £375 per month between you. In the past 4 years you might have paid in £18k (assuming your salary has been around the same level - in reality it probably has been lower for a while). That barely touches what it cost the taxpayer for your degree.

Does that give you a bit of perspective about all this money you've paid in without getting anything back?




*But presumably he still expects to be able to use GPs, hospitals and dentists.

janninew

I must say I'm astonished at the turn this thread has taken! Why couldn't the OP's perfectly reasonable first question just get answered, then that would be it? If you read the first few replies she had (not helpful or in keeping with what this forum is about) this thread would never have gotten to this point!

Mammato1

janninew wrote: »

I must say I'm astonished at the turn this thread has taken! Why couldn't the OP's perfectly reasonable first question just get answered, then that would be it? If you read the first few replies she had (not helpful or in keeping with what this forum is about) this thread would never have gotten to this point!

Absolutely agree - everyone's got their views, I'd rather hear objective information. And so much nasty words to support all kinds of arguments - oh well, we humans like to argue :-(

Wee_Willy_Harris

janninew wrote: »

I must say I'm astonished at the turn this thread has taken! Why couldn't the OP's perfectly reasonable first question just get answered, then that would be it? If you read the first few replies she had (not helpful or in keeping with what this forum is about) this thread would never have gotten to this point!

There was one question AND an opinion in the OP. Both were responded to within the first 10 replies with some helpful (if, as it transpires, unnecessary) advice. Frankly. if an OP voices an opinion, they open up the thread for it to be challenged, and that's all I read in this thread. The opinions of other were, in turn, challenged by the OP. I certainly don't see that anyone has been abused or victimised as both sides of the debate seem perfectly able to support a reasoned argument.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Mammato1 wrote: »

Absolutely agree - everyone's got their views, I'd rather hear objective information. And so much nasty words to support all kinds of arguments - oh well, we humans like to argue :-(

Then you need Google, not an internet forum.