We need lose £10,000 before social services grab it

markwilkinson

innovate wrote: »

Who other than yourself do you expect to pay for the emptying of your own bin?

The OP is paying for his brown bin to be emptied anyway, so I didn't really get the point of that part of the post. In fact I was only skim reading it and as soon as read "bedroom tax" I stopped reading. Not sure the OP actually knows what a tax is because a reduction in benefit is not a "tax".

tranmere_2112

markwilkinson wrote: »

The OP is paying for his brown bin to be emptied anyway, so I didn't really get the point of that part of the post. In fact I was only skim reading it and as soon as read "bedroom tax" I stopped reading. Not sure the OP actually knows what a tax is because a reduction in benefit is not a "tax".

Of course its a form of tax..by the back door again, take from the poor and give to those who dont need it....Hood Robin

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

tranmere_2112 wrote: »

Of course its a form of tax..by the back door again, take from the poor and give to those who dont need it....Hood Robin

The top earning 1% of people pay 25% of all income tax, despite only earning 17% of all income.

They pay far more than their fair share.

The top 10pc of earners pay 55.3pc of all income tax, also far more than their income share.

How much more do you expect them to pay?

And why?

POPPYOSCAR

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

The top earning 1% of people pay 25% of all income tax, despite only earning 17% of all income.

They pay far more than their fair share.

The top 10pc of earners pay 55.3pc of all income tax, also far more than their income share.

How much more do you expect them to pay?

And why?

Sir Michael Caine once summed it up for me.

He said that when he was a boy he was walking down the road with his father and a Rolls Royce drove by. He said to himself when I get older I will buy myself one of them.

Nowadays, though if a rolls royce drove past someone they would just want to run their keys down the side.

innovate

tranmere_2112 wrote: »

The payment we are having to pay is on top of the council tax.. like i said earlier we are paying tax by the back door again.
We have had them emptied for years paying for the privilage with our council tax, now the tories are in they now want to squeeze more cash out of us.

It's probably very simple: your council tax contributions are no longer enough to provide you with all the services you want from your council. Therefore either the council tax has to go up, or you need to pay extra for certain items, or some services need to be cut.

Things like trying to "lose" money for the benefit of heirs aren't conducive to keeping council expenditure low.

pstuart

Has she got a 'pre paid funeral'. At least £3200.

This is a capital disregard.

You are really on the wrong forum here.

Try the Benefit or Disability sections.

le_loup

tranmere_2112 wrote: »

we owe it to our elderly to help them have comfortable care not steal their savings.

Agreed. So why do your children want her savings?

SliAbhaile

tranmere_2112 wrote: »

We need lose £10,000 before social services grab it

Send it to me.

opinions4u

Watching your parent decline is horrible.

Wishing you could do more to help is natural.

Wishing "the state" would help more is also natural.

I do hope that one day they invent a system that rewards those who are prudent through their lives, rather than "rewarding" those who flush their incomes away.

I just don't know how to achieve it without creating a godawful human mess.

Taxes can only go so far. There has to be a line somewhere. What they spend our taxes on and how where those lines are drawn is fair game for debate. We waste a lot in this country by spending on nonsense. Dignity for the elderly doesn't seem to be high on the agenda.

Perhaps a bit less on free prescriptions and the electoral bribes of free TV licences, fuel allowances, Christmas bonuses and free bus travel and a bit more on the professional care requirements of the elderly is the right way to redress the balance.

Glen_Clark

Who do you think should pay for your MIL's care so you can inherit something you have not earned?
Please don't say the Government, because The Government has no money. All The Government can do is rob Peter to pay Paul.