BENEFIT CAP-Down almost £7000 help!!!

Penny-Pincher!!

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

If she can only afford to spend £40 per week for food out of a weekly income of almost £500 then there's something seriously wrong with her budgeting skills. Either that or she has a ridiculously high amount of debt. I suggest she takes professional advice from CAB or a welfare officer to over her budget/debts with her.

I haven't read the thread properly...sorry:o With the new benefit cap, does that £500 include paying your rent and council tax out of it?

~Chameleon~

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

I haven't read the thread properly...sorry:o With the new benefit cap, does that £500 include paying your rent and council tax out of it?

Yes, she said she has to pay £15 p/w toward council tax and some of the rent (not sure a figure has been mentioned) but assuming she's in a 3/4 bed council house with 6 children then even paying full rent wouldn't be much more than £120/£140 per week. That would still leave ~£350 per week for utility bills and food etc. Many people manage on much less.

nannytone_2

housing benefit is included in the cap but council,tax support isnt.

its really a budgeting issue rather than lack of money

nannytone_2

i take objection to this post.

i worked for 30 years before i lost my sight.
should i be embarrassed for 'taking' from the system?

leveller2911

nannytone wrote: »

i take objection to this post.

i worked for 30 years before i lost my sight.
should i be embarrassed for 'taking' from the system?

No offence but this thread isn't about you. Its about the OP who has 6 children all under 12 years of age so we can say with some confidence she is of child bearing age. Given that, I'm guessing she hasn't worked for 30 years and paid into the system.. so there probably is no comparison.

nannytone_2

but you dont know her background.
circumstances change for everyone.
you dont know that she wasnt in a position to probide when they were born

leveller2911

nannytone wrote: »

but you dont know her background.


circumstances change for everyone.


you dont know that she wasnt in a position to probide when they were
born

She may have paid in more tax in her short working career than most people pay in a lifetime and had a career as a chief executive of a City law firm.

Given that she has 6 kids under 12yr I'm guessing she isn't, but that is a guess.Its all irelevant, the fact is she was getting far too much money, we can't afford it so she needs to adjust............... Like we are all doing

I'm not the one trying to link other peoples problems to my own all the time....Its like a broken record now......

nannytone_2

[she didnt impregante herself. why arent you castigating the father?[/B]

leveller2911

nannytone wrote: »

[she didnt impregante herself. why arent you castigating the father?[/B]

You haven't given me chance to yet..........

I will do a deal with you, I will castigate the father ( quite rightly so if he is not providing for his children and is capable financially) if you stop whinging about your own problems and linking them to everyone elses on nearly every thread......


Deal?

Nada666

But from their own figures the rent is not much more than £155 at most. So she still receives £1500 per month to live on. There is no need for penury or abandoning children. She has to seek help budgeting (or to just do so.)