What the...?

System

If you work over 30 hours and earn under £13,000 you;d get tax credit as a childless single person..i think thats the threshold (someone correct me if im wrong)

elsien

To digress slightly, rising, to get WTC if you don't have kids, you need to be working at least 30 hours a week and pretty much be on minimum wage (or that's what it was when I last checked.) I think the earnings limit over which you didn't qualify was just under 13k.

Edit - cross posted.

rising_from_the_ashes

Just found it - £13k and you get £15 (for the whole tax year!) whoooooo don't spend it all at once!

ETA but you'd get your insulation done & be able to save on your heating bills!

Person_one

elsien wrote: »

To digress slightly, rising, to get WTC if you don't have kids, you need to be working at least 30 hours a week and pretty much be on minimum wage (or that's what it was when I last checked.) I think the earnings limit over which you didn't qualify was just under 13k.

Edit - cross posted.

Yup, I earn less than 13K and I'm not entitled to it anymore. Not that it was a great deal of money anyway!

Nelski

Well I will be mostly out on a limb and say its about time

I hate the way the families board went down the route of another general chat board where it was actually difficult to pick out the posts that had any money saving tips/advice in at all almongst the moan threads and the general chit chat. Dont get me wrong I love a good natter about nothing important but that has a place and that place is the arms. No other forum that I know that has a specific function has the option to chat about x factor or celebrity or my dreadful day/dreadful partner/awful kids anywhere other than the allocated place.

I dont know if the plan is to put the focus back on the real purpose that sat behind this forum or not but I hope it is. I am single and I do think that we can benefit from others experience and ideas and what I love about my personal freedom is that I can go and look at other boards too..........wow it may open some peoples minds up a little.:D

I do remember uproar when the suggestion that a lot of the threads should be in the arms was made before (e.g. "this is my home - I cant go anywhere else" :rotfl:) so I will wait and see how it goes but please lets get back to some money saving boards and a nice chat joint for the social stuff.

Ducks quick and prepares to escape to the arms .........:rotfl::rotfl:

Sambucus_Nigra

Nelski wrote: »

Well I will be mostly out on a limb and say its about time

I hate the way the families board went down the route of another general chat board where it was actually difficult to pick out the posts that had any money saving tips/advice in at all almongst the moan threads and the general chit chat. Dont get me wrong I love a good natter about nothing important but that has a place and that place is the arms. No other forum that I know that has a specific function has the option to chat about x factor or celebrity or my dreadful day/dreadful partner/awful kids anywhere other than the allocated place.

I dont know if the plan is to put the focus back on the real purpose that sat behind this forum or not but I hope it is. I am single and I do think that we can benefit from others experience and ideas and what I love about my personal freedom is that I can go and look at other boards too..........wow it may open some peoples minds up a little.:D

I do remember uproar when the suggestion that a lot of the threads should be in the arms was made before (e.g. "this is my home - I cant go anywhere else" :rotfl:) so I will wait and see how it goes but please lets get back to some money saving boards and a nice chat joint for the social stuff.

Ducks quick and prepares to escape to the arms .........:rotfl::rotfl:

Yeah, like the time they moved the rape thread there. Much better.

rising_from_the_ashes

I agree to some degree Nelski but I think the big issue (for me anyway) is that there are already boards for those type of things eg I go to the DFW boards to look for help with my debts .... I go to the Old Style board for help with cutting food costs / cooking etc and the Pets board for cutting pet costs - I would never come to a "singles" board for those things.

PasturesNew

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

If you work over 30 hours and earn under £13,000 you;d get tax credit as a childless single person..i think thats the threshold (someone correct me if im wrong)

Yeah, I think you'd get £5/week. Whoopy !!!!!! eh!

shegirl

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Really? That's what I was told by our benefits office - must go & check again!



Agreed to a certain point - the insulation was dependent on you receiving a benefit (any benefit - so any single person or couple with kids would qualify & any others that get benefits) but childless single people (sorry just hate the word "singletons") and childless couples miss out if they don't get any benefits.

Why should people be able to make savings on their bills / have a warm house because they get benefits but others be left to be cold / have high bills (if they can actually afford to have on the heating) because they don't.



If there is another wage earner in the household, it is likely to be more workable for one to have a reduced wage for a short period of time ..... when you're single & your budget does just cover all your outgoings, then you can't afford to take any cut in wages for even a few months.

If I went FT then I'd get them paid - but how on earth am I supposed to pay my mortgage / bills while I do so?

But single people without kids get benefits too!So,it's not due to being single it's due to not being on benefits...

Agree with the possibility of it being more workable, if you have a partner, to have a reduced wage to study BUT there are still ways and means when single - evening study or distance learning.

Being single needn't be a barrier to anything

PasturesNew

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

....cutting food costs / cooking etc ....

Only single people can understand the issues around cooking/food for a single person.... and mention food/cooking on those boards and you get loads of people in houses,with well stocked freezers/big cupboards and regularly cooking for 2-6 people telling how they do things.... which isn't helpful at all as it's a whole different world in singleland for most.

In a singleton's board, it might actually be possible to actually discuss cooking for one sensibly, without all the bizarre advice that's not relevant/suitable/ever going to work.