General Benefits Query

margaretclare

No matter how awful the employers may be, the amount of redundancy pay is laid down in law and they can't get away from it, assuming she has worked for them for the statutory period of time. I'm a bit out of date - it used to be minimum 2 years, and that would give one week's pay for every year she's worked there.

I sympathise. I've been made redundant from a job you'd hardly believe would fall under redundancy. I don't know very many people who haven't been made redundant, in some cases more than once.

supernatural619

I have to agree that they HAVE NOT been living within their means so you can understand why a lot of people won't give any sympathy. Everyone could make the excuse of saying well we could afford it when we were both working, but thank goodness we don't all take that attitude otherwise this country would be in an even worse state than it already is. My partner got paid off 3 months after we moved and got a bigger mortgage but when we took out our mortgage we paid payment protection so we were covered for that and yes we had other debts but i'm not talking about £65,000 more like £5,000 and we managed with me working part time and we had 2 young children. I'm sorry to say but I have no sympathy for people who just spend, spend, spend and don't think about what would happen if one or both of them lost their jobs. But of course at the time just as long as they have a big house and everything they want in that house to keep up with the jones' then who cares what should happen if they loose their job. At the minute I don't work as I have 2 children but even if I did work full time there is no way I would get into that much debt.

The first thing they will get told is to sell their second house, negative equity or not.