MSE News: Autumn Budget Statement: Benefits to rise 5.2% with inflation 29 November 2011 at 2:34PM in Benefits & tax credits 145 replies 15K views

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Autumn Budget Statement: Benefits to rise 5.2% with inflation

Fiver29

Even though I'll benefit from the rise in CTC, this is totally wrong. Workers would love a snifter of a rise, but are getting nothing in many cases.

Suarez

Fiver29 wrote: »

Even though I'll benefit from the rise in CTC, this is totally wrong. Workers would love a snifter of a rise, but are getting nothing in many cases.

100% correct! Why should people on Jobseekers allowance get what is effectively a pay rise?

Many people who are actually working wont receive a rise this year due to the financial state of the country yet these people sat on their backside all day watching Jeremy Kyle are due a 5% increase!

There's no wonder we are in this mess!

tomjonesrules

Fiver29 wrote: »

Even though I'll benefit from the rise in CTC, this is totally wrong. Workers would love a snifter of a rise, but are getting nothing in many cases.

I receive benefits and I wholly agree. There is enough stigma attached to claiming benefits without the govt vilifying us as money grabbers even more.

tomjonesrules

Suarez wrote: »

100% correct! Why should people on Jobseekers allowance get what is effectively a pay rise?

Many people who are actually working wont receive a rise this year due to the financial state of the country yet these people sat on their backside all day watching Jeremy Kyle are due a 5% increase!

There's no wonder we are in this mess!

Not everyone on benefits sits on their backside all day watching Jeremy Kyle, but thanks for confirming the stigma attached to claiming.

clearingout

Fiver29 wrote: »

Even though I'll benefit from the rise in CTC, this is totally wrong. Workers would love a snifter of a rise, but are getting nothing in many cases.

so you begrudge old people who need Pension Credit to top up their incomes an extra £5.35 a week? Even basic food prices have gone through the roof this year - it's not exactly going to go very far for them, is it?

Suarez

I'm not saying everyone on benefits but the majority of people on Jobseekers aren't bothered about work. The people who are actually looking for work, then fine, but there's people who have been claiming for years with no intention of working.

Fiver29

tomjonesrules wrote: »

Not everyone on benefits sits on their backside all day watching Jeremy Kyle, but thanks for confirming the stigma attached to claiming.

Absolutely, although I did this morning because I'm on a day off and it was on while I was doing the vaccuming

Fiver29

clearingout wrote: »

so you begrudge old people who need Pension Credit to top up their incomes an extra £5.35 a week? Even basic food prices have gone through the roof this year - it's not exactly going to go very far for them, is it?

Early on in the thread for the emotive post. But as to your 'question' no I don't begrudge it, but I don't think it should have been given.

RuthMarianna

I was just glad to see that the government were not able to announce a system for deciding on annual benefit increases and then find a way of changing the rules when the outcome did not suit them.

tagq2

Means-tested DWP allowances are set at what the law considers to be the minimum you need to live on. It is therefore necessary that they go up with inflation. I'd argue that a similar thing should happen to minimum wage, although a full time minimum wage work week remains much higher than the weekly means-tested allowance.

Why is it that people struggling are so easily divided and conquered? When people bicker over one person getting slightly more than them then neither wins - the only one to gain is at the top, content to take from everyone else busy racing to the bottom.

I am happy that someone else is at least on this occasion getting what he needs and am willing to campaign for the same sort of thing for myself.