Always better off working!! What a Joke!!

spandee

hi sean i dont know how to help you but wish you all the best. They are very quick to say you are not entitled but never offer any support or point you to anyone who can.
Can I suggest you start your question again on a new thread as you will get more responses from people who can help who may not be looking at this thread.

I wish you good luck

Sixer

Dunroamin wrote: »

How can someone say "single" when they mean not" disabled or caring for children" - it's not as though the two concepts are related in any way. (I wish we still had the puzzled smiley!)

People don't necessarily express themselves perfectly! I'm quite sure you're being deliberately obtuse. It was quite clear to me that the OP meant "I'm a single person so I have to do 30 hours but if I had a family I would only have to do 16 or 24. This seems entirely unfair to me as I'm signed up to several job agencies, take all the hours I'm offered but only get offered 25ish hours a week".

It was quite clear to me that the OP understood the situation and the rules perfectly and felt them to be unfair.

It obviously wasn't quite clear to you, so I explained it.

You seem articulate and reasonably intelligent. I'm entirely sure you now know what the OP was trying to say. I suspect you knew what they were trying to say anyway.

No need for a confusion smiley face if you're not confused.

Dunroamin

Sixer wrote: »

People don't necessarily express themselves perfectly! I'm quite sure you're being deliberately obtuse. It was quite clear to me that the OP meant "I'm a single person so I have to do 30 hours but if I had a family I would only have to do 16 or 24. This seems entirely unfair to me as I'm signed up to several job agencies, take all the hours I'm offered but only get offered 25ish hours a week".

You cannot help people properly who say one thing when they mean something completely different. I also find it very condescending to assume that you know what someone means when that isn't what they say. Also many people don't understand the basis on which benefits are awarded and I can't see anything wrong in explaining things to them.

Congratulations on having a well tuned crystal ball but don't criticise the rest of us who are just reading words on a screen!

recoverydust

The gentleman could apply to the relevant forces association, the royal British legion or a number of ex forces charities for assistance.
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Sixer

Dunroamin wrote: »

You cannot help people properly who say one thing when they mean something completely different. I also find it very condescending to assume that you know what someone means when that isn't what they say. Also many people don't understand the basis on which benefits are awarded and I can't see anything wrong in explaining things to them.

Congratulations on having a well tuned crystal ball but don't criticise the rest of us who are just reading words on a screen!

In my view, being deliberately obtuse is an abuse of this forum. It puts posters under subtle pressure and makes them feel judged. It seems to me it's simply skirting the rules by using semantics to put posters down. Using common sense to interpret what a poster says is not using a crystal ball. It's common courtesy and shows a willingness to actually help, rather than a desire to highlight less-than-perfect articulacy (which is not a pleasant trait to show in public).

Dunroamin

leamingtonspaceman wrote: »

You say this having just recently been condescending in the extreme to someone with autism:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4110425

Not only were you condescending, but you made spiteful comments that had to be removed by moderators following complaints. You then went on to try and make the person look foolish by asking them to quote a post that you knew full well had been removed.

However, your behaviour was observed, highlighted and rebuffed by various forum members who decided not to let you get away with it. Once you had been 'exposed', you continued to try and manipulate and belittle. When asked by various members to apologise, you showed no humility and lack of self-reflection by just disappearing from the thread.

Your behaviour is beyond reproach and your attitude and motives on this forum are dubious at best.

Still stalking I see.

Fortunately i don't resort to the report button as I feel it's better to leave posts like this in place for others to make their own decisions.

wattdallas

Dunroamin wrote: »

Still stalking I see.

Fortunately i don't resort to the report button as I feel it's better to leave posts like this in place for others to make their own decisions.

REALLY. You were threatening to report people earlier for blackening your name.YOu did that all by yourself :rotfl:

sniggings

OP the self employment work for 5 hours can be almost anything, as long as you are working, I don't believe you even have to be earning in those 5 hours, this would get you to 30 hours for WTC.

missapril75

sniggings wrote: »

OP the self employment work for 5 hours can be almost anything, as long as you are working, I don't believe you even have to be earning in those 5 hours, this would get you to 30 hours for WTC.

Actually, that's a very good point. The DWP does include such things as time put in meeting (potential) clients; time spent in preparation for, say, a presentation, research, obtaining supplies, advertising/touting for business, possibly travel time, etc

It's not just time "on the job" as it were. :rotfl:

Just as an example - a handyman/window cleaner might spend a couple of hours a week cleaning windows, but if he also spent a couple of hours a week delivering leaflets (not all in the same area, of course, it would have to be "reasonable") or maybe the odd putting up a shelf, gardening, cut the grass, for people on his rounds, it could soon add up.

And all without getting in the way of agency work cropping up because it can be done at different times.

SuziQ

Seanfarrel21, why did you call the CSA? Do you mean child tax credits? Why aren't you claiming those, do you earn too much? If not then that should be your first port of call, as you may be entitled to CTC and some help with child care costs. Get on the 'phone if you haven't tried to claim CTC yet!