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Housing benefit help please?

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  • FBaby
    FBaby Posts: 18,374 Forumite
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    You do have options, it's just that they involve working rather than claiming benefits to make up the difference. You can look for a job so can your son. He has no caring responsibility, so nothing to stop him taking on a few more hours in addition to the apprenticeship. It didn't use to be unusual for young people to work over 40 hours a week.
  • Shelldean
    Shelldean Posts: 2,422 Forumite
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    Yes i could get a job you're correct tho i wish it was as easy as it sounds. However your suggestion my son get another job is way off the mark. He is currently doing appox 40 hrs a week of hard graft as his job is physical not desk tied.

    Am sure we'll cope one way or another, it was just the shock of seeing the figures in black and white that frustrated me and made me post.
    Our goal was always to benefit free and thanks to an impulsive son it will be sooner.
  • Shelldean
    Shelldean Posts: 2,422 Forumite
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    Can i just say i wasnt asking for more or replacement benefits.... I just wanted confirmation that it was correct that despite the govt wamting to reduce unemployment and promoting apprenticeships that we would be actually worse off with him accepting this apprenticeship.
    However i have since realised that unless i give all accurate figures no one can agree nor disagree with my calculations. And i'd rather not put all our personal finances on a public forum.
  • nannytone_2
    nannytone_2 Posts: 13,001 Forumite
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    Shelldean wrote: »
    Can i just say i wasnt asking for more or replacement benefits.... I just wanted confirmation that it was correct that despite the govt wamting to reduce unemployment and promoting apprenticeships that we would be actually worse off with him accepting this apprenticeship.
    However i have since realised that unless i give all accurate figures no one can agree nor disagree with my calculations. And i'd rather not put all our personal finances on a public forum.
    i dont know why you bother to explain yourself.

    those that criticise, will do so regardless of what you say or what you do.
    it suits their purpose to think that you receive benefit because you choose to, rather than finding yourself in a temporary situation where you need help.

    i myself am disabled (blind) and was hit by the so called bedroom tax.
    many on here thought it was fine that disabled people and people that had no place to downsize to, shoul;d lose some of the meagre benefits they receive.
    i was lucky enough to move.... and i was criticized for 'queue jumping' because i approached the housing association direct, instead of joining the council waiting list.

    youre damned if you do and youre damned if you dont ... all because we are seem to CHOOSE to need benefits.

    good luck to you and your family and i hope all goes well for you
  • Dunroamin
    Dunroamin Posts: 16,908 Forumite
    Of course, from Sept 2015 all children will have to remain in ft education until they are 18yrs.

    I'm afraid that's incorrect. They have to be in education or training which includes apprenticeships and jobs with day release.
  • Own_My_Own
    Own_My_Own Posts: 6,098 Forumite
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    Of course, from Sept 2015 all children will have to remain in ft education until they are 18yrs.

    It's from 2013. And it's any type of training.


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6254833.stm
  • Confuseddot
    Confuseddot Posts: 1,755 Forumite
    Op I think you mentioned paying off debts in one of yours posts, could maybe pay off a bit less and with some dig money off your son the difference may not be quite as huge.

    Well done for you son on getting a Job good luck with it all
    Play nice :eek: Just because I am paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get me.:j
  • zzzLazyDaisy
    zzzLazyDaisy Posts: 12,497 Forumite
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    Own_My_Own wrote: »
    It's from 2013. And it's any type of training.


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6254833.stm

    really? I thought it was 17yr from sept 2013, and 18 yrs from 2015, but I am happy to be corrected on that.

    However the question remains the same - if this includes training and apprenticeships, does this still mean that the parent will lose benefits because the young person is then a non-dependent (despite the law requiring them to remain in education or training) or will the child be expected to work for nothing because of the raised school leaving age?
    I'm a retired employment solicitor. Hopefully some of my comments might be useful, but they are only my opinion and not intended as legal advice.
  • Shelldean
    Shelldean Posts: 2,422 Forumite
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    I thought it was staggered, my nephew has to stay to 17, and he is currently yr 10, so would've been able to leave summer 2014, but will be required to stay in education until summer 2015.

    Also when they say stay until is it literally until they are 18? so a sept baby would be able to leave much earlier than an Aug babe?
    Or do they mean until the end of the academic yr in which they turn 18?
  • Shelldean
    Shelldean Posts: 2,422 Forumite
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    Op I think you mentioned paying off debts in one of yours posts, could maybe pay off a bit less and with some dig money off your son the difference may not be quite as huge.

    Well done for you son on getting a Job good luck with it all


    yes this is probably our easiest plan, and although we'll get clobbered with some interest as the 0% rates end, hopefully we'll be in a better place to deal with it, perhaps even transfering it yet again. Will monitor it as we go along and work out best course of action
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