Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

BHB

We have just had:


Chopped Sausage, with onion and garlic baked in a Yorkshire pudding tray, whisked egg on top and cooked further until egg sets. (4 sausages in total over the 12 holes in the tray)


Mash and peas, stock cube as gravy.


4 eggs @8p (Aldi) 32p
4 Sausages @ 5p (Aldi) 20p
200g Peas @ £1 / kg (Asda) 20p
1kg Potatoes @£5.75/25kg (Greengrocers) 23p
Stock Cube (Aldi) 3p
Onion 10p
Garlic 10p

Feeds 4 Total £1.18 = 30p / person


(though we used Mr T's sausages £1.70 / 8 = 46p / person)

patchwork_cat

ladyluck I assume that you have checked on turnto us that you are getting all the benefits you are entitled to as a couple with 2 children on minimum wage in our area almost doubles their income with entitled benefits.

Butterfly_Brain

BHB wrote: »

Us too - its a ridiculous situation. Unless miraculously someone doubles my hourly rate we seem to be stuck on the same income if I do 40 hours and the missus works or not!


BB hope things get better - you have been an inspiration over the last few weeks since I've been lurking on the thread.


Perhaps you should have a cupboard stocked with chocolate for just such a situation


BHB x

nomnomnom chocolate

Sadly I am diabetic and indulge rarely in a chunk or two

Ladyluck1

patchwork_cat wrote: »

ladyluck I assume that you have checked on turnto us that you are getting all the benefits you are entitled to as a couple with 2 children on minimum wage in our area almost doubles their income with entitled benefits.

Yes we do get child tax credits but our housing benefit has just been cut due to our local council being cut 40m by the government.
Our HB has now nearly halved!
It's still a struggle though, our rent is 3/4 of DHs wages. We can't get a council house (I keep applying but we're not allocated many points )
I suppose this is how it will be until they are both in school and I can work full time as well

Eager_Elephant

Ladyluck1 wrote: »

Yes we do get child tax credits but our housing benefit has just been cut due to our local council being cut 40m by the government.
Our HB has now nearly halved!
It's still a struggle though, our rent is 3/4 of DHs wages. We can't get a council house (I keep applying but we're not allocated many points )
I suppose this is how it will be until they are both in school and I can work full time as well

Are you in England ladyluck?


Housing Benefit is governed by legislation set by Government so the rules are the same everywhere, the only thing that changes is the amount of HB people are allowed in private rented but again this is set by a Government agency once a year (April). Housing Benefit will not be affected by council's having to save money.


Local Authorities can set their own Council Tax Reduction rules so a lot make people on benefits who previously would have had no council tax to pay now have to pay something.


Can you check the letters you received before this latest change and after and see what the difference is? I wonder if they have one of the incomes in wrong?

Ladyluck1

Eager_Elephant wrote: »

Are you in England ladyluck?


Housing Benefit is governed by legislation set by Government so the rules are the same everywhere, the only thing that changes is the amount of HB people are allowed in private rented but again this is set by a Government agency once a year (April). Housing Benefit will not be affected by council's having to save money.


Local Authorities can set their own Council Tax Reduction rules so a lot make people on benefits who previously would have had no council tax to pay now have to pay something.


Can you check the letters you received before this latest change and after and see what the difference is? I wonder if they have one of the incomes in wrong?

There was a huge sign in the benefits office saying that's why as they've been cut a huge amount of money
I'm on the Isle of Wight so yes still England.
They did however say They had over paid me as DH worked a few Sunday's. But their calculations were wrong.
I took all his payslips in and they still say they are correct? So now even when he doesn't do Sunday's or overtime were still getting the same amount!
Why can't it just work like tax credis where they base it on last years income? It's so confusing
Eta; yes they have changed council tax benefit to something else and we're now not entitled to that either!

nursemaggie

This looks like this is why my housing benefit has been cut buy half. I can only pay out of my savings and when they run out we will be homeless. They have also stopped DS housing benefit all together.

Have they cut housing benefit to under 25s?

Ladyluck1

nursemaggie wrote: »

This looks like this is why my housing benefit has been cut buy half. I can only pay out of my savings and when they run out we will be homeless. They have also stopped DS housing benefit all together.

Have they cut housing benefit to under 25s?

I think they may have cut it for young people yes, I can't remember if I read 25 though

tessie_bear

i popped into sainsbugs yesterday and got a packet of rump steak for 99p...quite excited by that...also a few cheeky cakes cant beat reductions

Eager_Elephant

Housing Benefit for under 25's has not been cut yet - the Government keep threatening to introduce it but as yet they haven't.