Preparedness for when

Hardup_Hester

I'm being forced out of my job in the near future, does anyone know if I can claim jobseekers or similar once I've reached pensionable age? I'm assuming not, but I'm not stopping work willingly.
Hester

mardatha

My husband left his job because of a bad boss Hester, (and a heart attack but he was fit for work) and went to sign on. They told him since he was over 60 he could claim Pension Credit instead of JA, which he did. Wasn't a lot of money but brings other perks with it like free dentist, housing benefit, etc.

Hardup_Hester

Thanks for that Mardatha

Perplexed_Pineapple

mardatha wrote: »

My husband left his job because of a bad boss Hester, (and a heart attack but he was fit for work) and went to sign on. They told him since he was over 60 he could claim Pension Credit instead of JA, which he did. Wasn't a lot of money but brings other perks with it like free dentist, housing benefit, etc.

At the moment, but they are talking about scrapping the free TV licence and other odd benefits for pensioners, so it's pretty obvious where they are going with that one. Does anyone know whether you can claim JSA once you reach state pension age, which is what, 68 now? (They change it so often I lose track). Pensioners in work actually get a very good deal relative to the rest of us because they get a higher tax allowance (at the moment anyway) and don't pay National Insurance, so take home more of their pay.
It's always good hearing different points of view on things, like whether to eat meat or go veggie. We eat veggie a few evenings a week, often veggie curries which are a good way of making some fairly basic veggies a bit tastier (the Hairy Bikers recipe for saag aloo gobi is pretty good (aka spinach potato and cauliflower curry :rotfl:). Because of this we eat more rice than potatoes, so not so well stocked in tinned tatties, but do have 60kg of rice in the cupboard . In a prepperish way I quite like that because well stored rice lasts for years if you keep the mice and other wee beasties out. I'd struggle to go fully veggie though - like meaty things too much.

daz378

watched the time travellers guide to elizabethan england on bbc player....a farm labourer was lucky to get 1 groat for working dawn to dusk ... enough to survive the next day but wasnt sure of getting work...bit like zero hours contracts today... 1 in 50 women died in childbirth as opposed to 1 in 12000 today ... overall fascinating

the_cake

I am loving this weather ... lots of gardening getting done, makes me feel so much saner. I do keep a gardening diary from year to year, and note which specific plants do well, and which don't, and how many plants the two of us need to keep us in enough of whatever. I also note the weather, and it's becoming really useful to refer back to from year to year.
Bought some wonderful cookery books (from cs, obviously!) today for 20p each, and am finding I am automatically making my way increasingly towards the veggie ones.

siegemode

mcjordi wrote: »

so fed up today its unreal.. feels like my head is gonna explode. things seem to have hit a wall today. Had a phone call to say i have to fill in another esa50 and thats stressed me out.
Sorry for the mini rant but i have no one really to talk to when i like this.

Have you joined the Benefits for Work website ? It costs about £16 for a years membership but is brilliant and worth every penny for the guides that you can download.

Hope the form filling goes ok. I know how you feel, we have 2 lots of forms to do this summer for the oh and then my carers one no doubt. Our stressometer goes way off the scale and it takes weeks to complete and gather all the related info to enclose. If only those that judge knew and understood the effects that putting in a claim had on our health and dignity. Not to mention the wait wondering if your going to manage financially or about to go into total collapse.
This is one of the reasons I try and stock up. I seem to go into a frenzie trying to take advantage of as many bargains as possible about 6 months before they are due in.

GreyQueen

daz378 wrote: »

watched the time travellers guide to elizabethan england on bbc player....a farm labourer was lucky to get 1 groat for working dawn to dusk ... enough to survive the next day but wasnt sure of getting work...bit like zero hours contracts today... 1 in 50 women died in childbirth as opposed to 1 in 12000 today ... overall fascinating

I've read the book that this is taken from and highly recommend it and it's predecessor; The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England and ........Medieval England. Ian Mortimer is his name and he's very good. You can almost smell the dung........:p

It's sobering to consider how grim things were and for how long. And to understand that our own personal families lived through this so we could be here. I wonder what they'd make of the 21st century? And I wonder what a groat (they were little bitty silver things, weren't they?) sells for today?

Today will be a working day so not much time to do anything else, but matters preptastic are never far from my mind. It's a way of viewing the world without the smoke and mirrors and it's amazing what it does to your consciousness.

Not that it does me any harm, I hasten to add; my tin foil hat protects me from the worst of it............:p

Have a good day, and (((((((((big hugs)))))))) to anyone going thru the mill with disability benefits.

Laters, GQ xx

mardatha

Forgive me preppers for I haven't yet sinned but am sure I'm going to
I'm desperate - going for a mad day out up in the big city (aka Edinburgh) - and I want to float round the big stores and look at perfume and make-up and hair gunk and shoes and and and.... :rotfl::rotfl:
Please can I have a day off growing turnip and making do and sides to middling ?? I have been very very :A honest..

VJsmum

LOL have a nice day, Mar - just don't let your head be turned.

The value of prepping showed itself again this morning when DS announced (last night) he is doing cookery again at school and I had to get the ingredients for chilli at the drop of a hat. I took some "just in case" mince out of the freezer last night and the rest could be obtained from stores. I really need to teach that boy to cook, myself, as his lack of knowledge is shocking - he didn't know what to do with an oxo cube.:eek:

I know some kids go into these lessons with big bags of flour for example, rather than a weighed out portion, as there aren't any scales at home and no cooking ingredients so the stuff has to be bought in especially. THese are the majority! A small minority never bring ingredients in as parents aren't interested enough (it seems) to provide them.

Sad