MSE News: Benefits to rise by less than inflation: full breakdown

MissMoneypenny

schrodie wrote: »

Not all!!! And that 'some' is a very low fraction of the whole

Have you thought about taking on some home typing, to boost your income?

starrystarry

BurnleyBob wrote: »

It is crazy. If Britain was a company it would have gone bust and closed down ages ago.

What's even crazier is that a country's that skint can give away £8.8 billion in foreign aid this year. That's equal to £137 for every one of the UK's 62 million citizens. I kid you not. And that aid will increase by the true inflation rate in proceeding years while millions of Britons will be stuck with a one percent income rise for three years. Amongst those will be those who work for the public sector, including the armed forces.

Yes, soldiers and others who the government pretend to respect and admire so much will be working for less and less in real terms while foreign recipients have no such worries.

You're right, the recipients of the UK's foreign aid won't be worrying about whether the aid they get is keeping place with inflation. They'll be far too busy worrying whether they can get clean water, whether their children will starve to death that day, whether they'll step on a land mine etc etc.

schrodie

Dunroamin wrote: »

I'm talking about what genuine people choose to do.

Employment is not a punishment!

Know many do you!! Or are you just going by the propaganda you're fed in copious amounts and swallow by right wing rags like the daily mail!

schrodie

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

Have you thought about taking on some home typing, to boost your income?

No need to poppet I'm flithy rich!!

BTW you don't need to type to post!

System

I wonder if 30wpm is quick enoough for home typing?

MissMoneypenny

schrodie wrote: »

No need to poppet I'm flithy rich!!

BTW you don't need to type to post!

True. And those speak programmes can be used to earn an income too; if you wanted to.

MissMoneypenny

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

I wonder if 30wpm is quick enoough for home typing?

The idea of working form home is that go at your own speed. You are paid for the work you do; not the speed you do the work at.

But as we have already established, some people don't want to work.

BurnleyBob

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

It's nothing new. The UK has been borrowing and giving billions in foreign aid for decades. At least this government are winding down and stopping some of that foreign aid i.e aid to India. I never understood why we gave all that money to a country that had a space programme!

Incorrect. India will get less but other countries will be in clover. The coalition are to increase the foreign aid budget to £10.5B in 2014-2015. That will mean it'll increase above what they believe inflation will run at.

System

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

The idea of working form home is that go at your own speed. You are paid for the work you do; not the speed you do the work at.

But as we have already established, some people don't want to work.

Interesting.

Not sure how that would work when a rental contract specifically says you can't use the place as a place of business but i assume there are ways around that?

BurnleyBob

starrystarry wrote: »

You're right, the recipients of the UK's foreign aid won't be worrying about whether the aid they get is keeping place with inflation. They'll be far too busy worrying whether they can get clean water, whether their children will starve to death that day, whether they'll step on a land mine etc etc.

If you're so concerned then there's plenty of charities you can voluntarily choose to donate to in order to relieve their suffering further. I'm content with the £137 per annum that I'm coughing-up presently, thank you very much.

Incidentally, I now know the percentage of UK households in receipt of benefits. Let's say if you had taken that wager you'd have been lighter of pocket.