A job's a job..

Oldernotwiser

cwiff1 wrote: »

Its very easy to judge unemployed people when your in a safe, secure and average paying job. Peoples situations are all different and it's not going to be easy to take a job at minimum wage when you were getting paid 25k only a couple of months ago is it? Speaking as a qualified joiner, I wouldn't take a job that paid less than £10 an hour, that's for sure. Why? Because I have worked through an apprenticeship to ensure I have a qualification that is worth more than £10 an hour. I spent 6 weeks without work from before Christmas but I didn't sign on once because I was the one who chose not to take the low paying work. I was financially in a position where I didn't need to take the work right enough, so I didn't NEED to take the low paying work...

Your situation might've been different if you'd been unemployed for 6 months or if your savings had run out. Your savings gave you the option of making your own choices and allowing you to be independent of the system which is what savings are for.

dandelionclock30

Theres taking a low paid job and then theres being totally shafted,no-one should be expected to work a week of nights without a break during time there for £100 per week!
There are employment laws for a reason to protect the workforce and there is the NMW, plus people are entitled to a break.The employer is flouting the law and should be reported.

LadyMissA

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Perhaps you never asked - there's an enormous amount of information around about them and it's hard to see how you've missed it..

I don't understand why I would have asked about something I know nothing about? How is it hard to see how I have missed it when I knew nothing about them? I assumed 'credits' were for people on benefits with kids and stuff, not for me.

I still do not see how if I got a job tomorrow payinig £27k I'd still get them

dandelionclock30

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/TaxCredits/peoplewhohelpothers/Entitlementtablesfortaxcredits/DG_174877

Tax credit info for those without children^.
Also if you dont know what your entitled too the CAB will do a benefits check for you and this service is free.

LadyMissA

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/TaxCredits/peoplewhohelpothers/Entitlementtablesfortaxcredits/DG_174877

Tax credit info for those without children^.
Also if you dont know what your entitled too the CAB will do a benefits check for you and this service is free.

someone was saying you will get it if you get a job but never on the calculations page does it ask how much you are earning therefore unless you get a job at NMW you wont get anything like I have been saying and since I have never worked at NMW I would never had need to know about these so called credits

You can't get an appointment where I live for the CAB, cant even call them as always engaged and only accept appointment via the phone

dandelionclock30

It asks how much you are earning on the left hand column of the 1st table, but this is slightly obscured. 1st Grey box, underneath the woman with her head in her hands(maybe she is unemployed herself!).

LadyMissA

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

It asks how much you are earning on the left hand column of the 1st table, but this is slightly obscured. 1st Grey box, underneath the woman with her head in her hands(maybe she is unemployed herself!).

I have been looking here

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

dandelionclock30

Look here!

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/TaxCredits/peoplewhohelpothers/Entitlementtablesfortaxcredits/DG_174877

LadyMissA

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

Look here!

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/TaxCredits/peoplewhohelpothers/Entitlementtablesfortaxcredits/DG_174877

I have! Makes no difference unless you get a nmw job & if that is the case when the JC make you apply for NMW jobs they should tell you this

dandelionclock30

Yeah its for the low waged to avoid starvation/suffering from poverty, the jobcentre should do a lot of things but dont.
What exactly do you want to know?