No child tax payment means no food

Dunroamin

nannytone wrote: »

IVE HAD A HIT TOO!

A WHOLE MONTHS INCOME THAT I NEVER HAD!

DIFFERENCE IS I DONT EARN 30 K A YEAr

What whole month's income?

nannytone_2

i suppose you would count the direct payments that i have no access to.

but 4 times my weekly cash income was needed to move. that was over and above money i already had saved for emergencies.
i will pay it back over the next 40 or so weeks.
but i wont starve

bloolagoon

nannytone wrote: »

i received child benefit, as did everyone regardless of circumstances.
i receive no housing benefit and paid full rent. as sunnyone and others like to promote 'martin says.. have 3 months wage as savings'

Really, you replied to myself when I asked how you found being a single parent without the generous tax credits in London and you clearly stated you received housing benefit.

Certainly OP isn't I dire needs, it was clearly a rant, they have cards and will have tins in etc, yet at the same time they have had a really tough month, financially needed that payment and I sympathise. If your money was £20 short next week, I'd sympathise too - people need notice of income changes, many live week to week.

Dunroamin

nannytone wrote: »

i suppose you would count the direct payments that i have no access to.

but 4 times my weekly cash income was needed to move. that was over and above money i already had saved for emergencies.
i will pay it back over the next 40 or so weeks.
but i wont starve

I thought you only moved a couple of doors down?

FBaby

The only reason people reacted to OP's post is because of how dramatic she made the situation be, talking about disciplining staff etc... for £20 when she clearly earns enough that even with an emergency coming up, she shouldn't be left with starved children.

If she'd had a rant just saying that she was expecting that £20 and with it not coming, she will struggle and it is bad luck that it had to happen the exact same time that she had to use her entire emergency fund, she would have got a lot more sympathy.

Own_My_Own

FBaby wrote: »

The only reason people reacted to OP's post is because of how dramatic she made the situation be, talking about disciplining staff etc... for £20 when she clearly earns enough that even with an emergency coming up, she shouldn't be left with starved children.

You would never know that many people on here are in debt. That is why he debt free pages are on here.

Thumper7

Nannytone,

I'm a bit confused, you say you get £1000 per month which you don't have access to to pay your PA. Then you go on and say your PA is only paid 100 per week, even with NI and Insurance, that does not add up to 1000. What happens to the remainder. I'm sorry if i'm missing something here.

Bangton

Why does it matter what Nannytone earns and gets when she didn't even start this thread?

I think some of the comments toward her are a little crass. This is someone living day to day with a disability that I assume most of you do not have so thus can't comment on how you'd feel, how much empathy she should expect and how much she should be expected to live on.

I can empathise with the OP to some degree, but in a way I do wonder how £20 can make such a massive difference that she cannot pick her children up from school nor eat this week. We put £20 a week in the car alone and I/my partner drive more locally than she appears to (considering the 8 mile drive to the children's school). I think it's melodrama and makes the HMRC look appalling when actually she is getting 'handouts' from them on a regular basis that there is an apparent lack of gratitude for. I get why this would irk someone like Nannytone, just knowing what little I do know about the shake up with DLA. Left, right and centre people are losing money with the economy at the moment. The difference is when work don't give us enough of a payrise to cover the rise in outgoings no one kicks up with them and phones HR to say they can't feed their children but yet people feel they have a right to kick off with HMRC over money they get as a bonus to what they already earn so they can bring up children they chose to have...

Thumper7

Of course it matters, it would seem that Nannytone is missing out on a chunk of money each month. I mean if going by the figures that Nannytone has stated and that she cannot access this money, then surely there is something very wrong.

Whether Nannytone started this thread or not, there seems to be an anomaly and if by my questioning this, Nannytone can have her income increased then all to the good is it not.

Dunroamin

Thumper7 wrote: »

Nannytone,

I'm a bit confused, you say you get £1000 per month which you don't have access to to pay your PA. Then you go on and say your PA is only paid 100 per week, even with NI and Insurance, that does not add up to 1000. What happens to the remainder. I'm sorry if i'm missing something here.

Nanny's "PA" is paid £10 ph - not bad going for a bit of chauffering and gym attendance.