Welfare Reform

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seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Fostering Allowance 2012:

In London
Ages
16+: £226.74

That's almost double, what a 16 year-old would earn (gross), doing 40hrs on NMW. :eek:

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Growurown wrote: »

Sorry but I don't call this well paid. The figures quoted equate to an hourly rate of 78 pence to £1.34 an hour when you consider that the foster parent is responsible for that child for every hour of the day. Out of this the foster parent pays for food, travel, clothing, presents, school expenses etc.

People don't have all this expense, with their own child :huh:

At age 16, if your child started a full time job, on NMW, they would earn less than £150pw gross.

Yet, for taking care of a 16 year-old foster child, the household budget benefits to the tune of almost double that.

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Depth_Charge wrote: »

Anyway, heres what Gord has to say about it -

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/tenancies/former-prime-minister-attacks-bedroom-tax/6526205.article

I can't take seriously, anything GB says.

Let's not forget, this is the man who sold off a huge chunk of the nation's gold reserves, just before the price went up, and put the country into the financial mess it's in, by borrowing like there's no tomorrow.

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seven-day-weekend wrote: »

And if their kids were hungry, like you say, they will eat the food that is cooked.

Have to agree with this.

I'm from the generation where, if you couldn't pay the energy bills, you got cut off, children or no children.

We even spent one Christmas without electricity, cooking on the coal fire.

As for food, you ate what was put on the table, or you did without.

No way would we have been asked "What do want for dinner?".

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tpl wrote: »

Maybe stop giving any sort of benefit to someone with a high income

I agree with this.

IMO, it is ridiculous that someone earning as much as £41,000, can get tax credits to help with childcare costs.

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AMY_JONES wrote: »

If there's lower paid jobs in Cardiff that you have to spend a third of your wages going back and forth then I can see how you might decide it's not worth it.

My wages aren't exactly terrific, and I spend about 1/4 of them on getting to and from work, but I think it's worth it, if the alternative is being on JSA.

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dktreesea wrote: »

People will soon learn though, that the main priority as soon as they get their payment, will be to pay the rent first, no matter what else is outstanding.

I'm amazed there are people who don't know this.

From being quite young, my mother drummed this into myself and my siblings.

At times, we've had our electricity cut off, but the one thing that was ALWAYS paid, was the rent.

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dktreesea wrote: »

I hope teachers have deep pockets, because they are going to start to see a lot of hungry children arriving at school towards the end of the month.

I'm sorry but, anyone who isn't able to feed their children, even on benefits, is either buying top of the range products, or spending the money on something unnecessary, such as takeaways every night.

The price difference, between top of the range products and lesser known/own brands, is HUGE, and, while I'm sure pretty well everyone would like to be able feed their family top brand products (and take them out to Micky Ds, BK etc.) every day, you have to cut your coat to suit your cloth.

paying it monthly instead of weekly

Like the way most working people get paid?

making people pay for their housing themselves rather than paying the housing for them

Like working people?

Getting paid monthly (and paying your bills), is what being an adult is all about.

Even with monthly salary/benefits, and monthly payments, it's far easier to organise yourself (thanks to pay schemes for energy etc.), than it was when I was young.

The system we have had, for all these years (paying Rent and CT directly to the LL, and giving the claimant the remainder as "pocket money") has been treating claimants like children.

Well, if you treat them like children, then they'll act like children.

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BBXC_News wrote: »

Total welfare payments will be limited to £500 per week for couples and single parents and £350 per week for single people without children.

I'm a single person, without children, and I'm lucky if I take home £350pw, for working 50-odd hours.

Depth_Charge

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I can't take seriously, anything GB says.

Let's not forget, this is the man who sold off a huge chunk of the nation's gold reserves, just before the price went up, and put the country into the financial mess it's in, by borrowing like there's no tomorrow.

Hi

Fair enough comment and I respect your opinions

Correct me if I am wrong though, but I think his constituancy majority increased at the last election and he received a huge percentage vote for his parliamentry seat.

Personally speaking he is a very honourable man who had to deal with a financial crisis the likes of which I have never seen before, it was touch and go back then and quite worrying at the time, it really was and still is to a certain extent.

Just my opinions

DC