Income support

MissJoJo_2

You earn over £18K and you 'want' to claim income support!??:mad:

Dogger69

MissJoJo wrote: »

You earn over £18K and you 'want' to claim income support!??:mad:

Yet in another thread he criticises parents that claim help with childcare costs. Some screwed up thinking there ...

marty92

MissJoJo wrote: »

You earn over £18K and you 'want' to claim income support!??:mad:

We all live to our means, my "normal" salary last year would have been 50-70k so dropping to 22k this year is significant, it would be foolish to see this as high just because you/one is on 10k for example.

marty92

Dogger69 wrote: »

Yet in another thread he criticises parents that claim help with childcare costs. Some screwed up thinking there ...

Really? You are happy for everyone to have kids and claim for them?

princessdon

marty92 wrote: »

I'm not sure what you mean by that, I work, walk, talk, drive etc etc unassisted. I don't generally consider my self disabled.

I have trouble working through mental illness but the only assistance there will be "self help"

Ok - Was thinking of a none means tested benefit (no incomes barrier) but it doesn't appear relevant here.

marty92

Torry_Quine wrote: »

You are getting over £18,000 and she earns over £70,000, that is not a low income even if only your money.

It's not a case of imposing, if the positions were reversed wouldn't you support her?

I really hope though that things pick up for you soon.

I would support her without question and she would I, Thanks, I too hope it picks up, we all have our respective mortgages.

Dogger69

marty92 wrote: »

Really? You are happy for everyone to have kids and claim for them?

If someone is working full time to support their family, then I have no issue with them asking the state for a bit of help. Peoples circumstances change - maybe they were earning a great deal more when they had the children, maybe they were not but the childcare costs increased beyond their means. These are not people that had children in order to get more benefits, these are people that try their hardest and set a good example to our next generation.

Torry_Quine

marty92 wrote: »

We all live to our means, my "normal" salary last year would have been 50-70k so dropping to 22k this year is significant, it would be foolish to see this as high just because you/one is on 10k for example.

Between you there was at the minimum £120,000 coming into your home. Your mistake was living up to your income and no we don't all do that. Many of us have savings, the advice being at least 3-6 months for just this sort of eventuality. My advice is to see where you can cut your expenditure and start saving now.

marty92

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Between you there was at the minimum £120,000 coming into your home. Your mistake was living up to your income and no we don't all do that. Many of us have savings, the advice being at least 3-6 months for just this sort of eventuality. My advice is to see where you can cut your expenditure and start saving now.

Savings are dangerous things nowadays ESP in the light of Cyprus, that said I did have some which carried me from January of this year to now, well I guess they will last another 6 -10 weeks.

Our mortgage is 4k a month plus Council tax @ £ 3,700.00 a year don't get me started on bills!

benefitbaby

It kind of makes one think.... social security law says a non-disabled couple needs £112 a week to live on (not inc. housing costs) - this thread is a lesson in perspective.