Not entitled to ANY benefit .... SKINT!

Bargainhunter83

midnight_express wrote: »

We'd all like to be that skint ! The benefit breeding must be paying off.

Why is she in benefits? To be getting maternity pay she would have been working? There's very few people who don't get child benefit in this country so that doesn't count really. Also regarding the £50k that is being put towards a house purchase ( well done in the current climate ) at least she's not in a council house sat on £50k in the bank eh?
It's been a long time since I was on JSA so don't know much about it anymore but you used to be able to claim for bus journeys to interviews if I remember rightly.
Why is it pretty much all of these forums people ask for help and get criticised left right and centre for every aspect and also unrelated ones?

Dunroamin

Bargainhunter83 wrote: »

Why is she in benefits? To be getting maternity pay she would have been working? There's very few people who don't get child benefit in this country so that doesn't count really. Also regarding the £50k that is being put towards a house purchase ( well done in the current climate ) at least she's not in a council house sat on £50k in the bank eh?
It's been a long time since I was on JSA so don't know much about it anymore but you used to be able to claim for bus journeys to interviews if I remember rightly.
Why is it pretty much all of these forums people ask for help and get criticised left right and centre for every aspect and also unrelated ones?

The OP's son isn't on JSA, that's the whole point of the thread!

Given that there are three adults involved in the situation, the OP isn't actually skint, she receives CB and the son will be able to claim JSA in about 6 weeks's time, doesn't this seem to you to be a lot of fuss about nothing? (Rather like the OP's other threads.)

nannytone_2

i agree, that the OP should be able to manage for 6 weeks, and is not exactly 'skint' ( though peoples definitions of skint vary .... mine is having NO ,oney .... other people think just having monery to cover the essentials with nothing left over, means they are skint)
but midnight express' comments were unfair.
the OP obviously works to have received maternity pay, so to say she is a 'benefit breeder' is untrue and unwarranted

sulkisu

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

firstly, OP's son is an adult, and as such OP's deposit for a house is not a cash pot for him.

he isnt entitled to JSA as FE has ended early, OPS bio dad would have had a some CB run on, so ask him to put that into sons account.

it would be upto the OP and her partner to bursery her son with a weekly budget from her savings.

True, but OP's asks 'how she is supposed to support her son on her measly maternity pay'. When in fact she has far more than her maternity pay to use (she has money in the bank and her partners salary) and that support will only be needed for a six week period. If she really had no money and her son was refused JSA full-stop, then I could understand the point of the thread, but it does seem to be a fuss over nothing.

mikey_bach

the OP states that her son is her second child, hence the lower amount of child benefit, How old is her first born then ???
I think if she is supporting what I assume must be a nineteen year old
then helping out her eighteen year old for six weeks will not harm her.

nannytone_2

she is on maternity leave so her 'first' child must be a baby.

i dont think she's saying 'second child' as in age .... nore to do with the fact that she already gets CB for one ... so adding the other child would make him the second child on thas claim

mikey_bach

If that is the case then eldest child would command the £20.10.

and the baby £13.40

atrixblue.-MFR-.

your all jumping to conclusions about the OP son.

may it not dorn on you lot that the 50K they do not class as savings and is prioritised or seen as spent already.

her eldest may not even be living with her and is non of our buisiness.

nannytone_2

mikey_bach wrote: »

If that is the case then eldest child would command the £20.30.

and the baby £13.10

now youre being pedantic

nannytone_2

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

your all jumping to conclusions about the OP son.

may it not dorn on you lot that the 50K they do not class as savings and is prioritised or seen as spent already.

her eldest may not even be living with her and is non of our buisiness.

you need to re read the OP.

she says her eldest son has come to live with her.
i agree dragging the 50k yp might be a bit of a red herring. they may have already cought another property, and so that money could be gone