Will we be entitled to any more benefits?

fogartyblue.

wellynever wrote: »

Still banging on about this are we,

"Currently a couple are guaranteed £217.90 a week. Add to that if both get the lowest rate of Attendance Allowance and each claim to care for each other, that goes up to £399.50 a week plus the Attendance Allowance payments of £51.85 for each of them. Add to that they will pay no council tax - saving say £26 a week and full housing benefit of say £100.00 a week OR instead the mortgage interest of up to £70.00 a week.

So in that example the couple are said to need £469.50 if they have a mortgage under Pension Credit, or£499.50 if they rent with another £103.70 a week in disability payments + CTB of £26.00 a week.

So for someone that is renting at that rate their total income will be £499.50 + £103.70 + £26.00 = £629.20 a week

If however the couple did not rent and owned their own home, they would only get £399.50 + £103.70 + £26.00 = £529.20 a week

Not bad for a pensioner couple!! "

Your AE

Thank you for confirming what I have been trying to tell Anubis!

They are doing nothing wrong in claiming this amount - but I do feel for the young couples with children that see this amount being paid out to the so called 'poorest pensioners'!!

fogartyblue.

Anubis wrote: »

I will say this for the last time - they are NOT entitled to the severe diability premium like you first stated.

Their carers will be deductible as will any private pension.

It's about time you stopped squashing those bitter grapes.

Bitter? I'm not bitter. Just sad that that group of people are being given such large amounts that they don't need, yet young families are having their benefits cut.

It seems that Wellynever is of the same opinion and confirms that the figures are indeed correct. In fact Welly has made it even clearer than I have so that maybe you can see were you are going wrong!

Instead of harping on about how wrong I am, why don't you put the figures into any benefit calculator and see what comes out the other end?

Molly41

My goodness Fogarty Blue - Who are you really?

Metranil_Vavin

some say andy and flo has risen from the dead...:whistle:

wellynever

molly Anubis gets me

wellynever

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

some say andy and flo has risen from the dead...:whistle:

I know it's more of a up hill strugle than that

Tippytoes

fogartyblue. wrote: »

I find this absolutely shocking!

Here we have a family with one of them working part time earning £468 a month and who used to claim benefits of another £1355 a month!!

Now complaining that their benefits are going down to £1088 a month.

As the poster says - it is embarrassing and shows that working does not pay!!

When I was bringing up our 4 children in the 1980's I had to work every hour God sent, sometimes 3 jobs in order to bring the equivalent amount of money in.

The only benefits we received was the Family Allowance, that went on clothes, shoes and uniforms for the kids.

How times have changed - I would have loved to have worked part time for the same level of income.

At last. The penny starts to drop. The reason why this country is SO popular with our ever-increasing overseas visitors. Good here, innit?

Anubis_2

Tippytoes wrote: »

At last. The penny starts to drop. The reason why this country is SO popular with our ever-increasing overseas visitors. Good here, innit?

Overseas generally have no recourse to public funds for a time limit, which I believe is at least 12 months or more. I think after that benefits are at a reduced rate and difficult for them to get.

Of course we have to remember that many are born here regardless of skin colour, and are therefore British.

I was born here in the 60's - my real father is not British, but neither does he know I exist. However, I am British.

Anubis_2

fogartyblue. wrote: »

Bitter? I'm not bitter. Just sad that that group of people are being given such large amounts that they don't need, yet young families are having their benefits cut.

It seems that Wellynever is of the same opinion and confirms that the figures are indeed correct. In fact Welly has made it even clearer than I have so that maybe you can see were you are going wrong!

Instead of harping on about how wrong I am, why don't you put the figures into any benefit calculator and see what comes out the other end?

I think you misunderstood Wellynever

Please read up on the conditions for claiming severe disability premium and you will see it does NOT apply.

Soapn

Credit-Crunched wrote: »

Why do it?

Self respect, dignity, morals, principles, if we all adopted that mindset there would be on money in the coffers to pay your benefits!

Luckily for you some of us work, and work hard, yes we may not earn much and to and fro work costs money, but I can sit down knowing what I spend I have earnt. You can not put a price on that!

absolutely spot on.

I am soooooooooooo sick of people moaning they'd be worse off if they worked. I'm sorry, but that is just a lazy selfish asttitude to have.

I don't particulary like my job, but I go week in, week out and the rewards are a social life, people to talk with, self respect, dignity, money and the ability to snigger at the chavs who are too lazy to work:p