Son left education- losing large percentage tax credits

bestpud

poet123 wrote: »

:T:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Haha! You know what I mean!

Own_My_Own

Seriously ? I am not as sad as you . If I have something to say I will say it not hide behind another name. I quoted the other user because I saw the post. Pm them and see if they also have an achololic mother if it makes you feel better. You obviously have a lot if time on your hands. You really need to get lives . This place is not real.

poet123

bestpud wrote: »

Haha! You know what I mean!

Indeed I do...(and so does she):rotfl:

cockaleekee

Own_My_Own wrote: »

Seriously ? I am not as sad as you . If I have something to say I will say it not hide behind another name. I quoted the other user because I saw the post. Pm them and see if they also have an achololic mother if it makes you feel better. You obviously have a lot if time on your hands. You really need to get lives . This place is not real.

Yet you have spent the whole evening on here ...

bestpud

Own_My_Own wrote: »

Seriously ? I am not as sad as you . If I have something to say I will say it not hide behind another name. I quoted the other user because I saw the post. Pm them and see if they also have an achololic mother if it makes you feel better. You obviously have a lot if time on your hands. You really need to get lives . This place is not real.

Oh the irony!

I see notsobad has gone offline for a bit.

Own_My_Own

cockaleekee wrote: »

Yet you have spent the whole evening on here ...

One minute I'm in here all evening , the next I am someone else. Make your mind up. The other poster was still on when I reply to the post. But that was just in my mind wasn't it. Must be we can't both be on together can we. Or as we are not the same person maybe we can.

poet123

Own_My_Own wrote: »

One minute I'm in here all evening , the next I am someone else. Make your mind up. The other poster was still on when I reply to the post. But that was just in my mind wasn't it. Must be we can't both be on together can we. Or as we are not the same person maybe we can.

All evening, in one guise or another, on two different browsers....entirely possible.

bestpud

Own_My_Own wrote: »

One minute I'm in here all evening , the next I am someone else. Make your mind up. The other poster was still on when I reply to the post. But that was just in my mind wasn't it. Must be we can't both be on together can we. Or as we are not the same person maybe we can.

You do realise both posters are you, don't you?

dktreesea

Dunroamin wrote: »

They won't have to stay in education, it's "education and training" which includes apprenticeships and jobs with training. What they won't be able to do is sit round at home all day playing games.

You seem to be under the impression that the school leaver has a choice when it comes to having these opportunities. Many of these "opportunities" are oversubscribed. Not all school leavers get a job, or an apprenticeship, or even a place on a training course, let alone in college. Plus someone has to give them the opportunity. Just because the school leaver knocks on the door doesn't mean that the gate keeper opens it for them.

dktreesea

krisskross wrote: »

Thank goodness we were not so greedy or so reliant on handouts when our children left education and started work. We worked on a 1/3rd system after they had taken out travel costs and we were miles better off as a family with the contribution from the now working adult.

Child benefit was fairly negligible compared to today's rates so not missed, neither was the tax free allowance that my husband received.

Governments do no favours to families when the children are seen as money generators.

Equating relying on handouts with being greedy is a bit unfair, imho. Anyone who doesn't receive child related benefits due to their income in this day and age is very lucky. Why call the masses not so fortunate to be in this position "greedy"?

Yes, if you were not getting any benefits for your children anyway, of course your household will be better off financially if someone in the household starts earning. There are probably millions of parents in a low income place like Britain who are not so fortunate to have the luxury of having that kind of income.