No child tax payment means no food

Thumper7

StormyWeather wrote: »

Not £100 a week, but £100 a week more, so £200 per week.

My apologies, I missed that.

UnderPressure

ELMATHUD wrote: »

Alot of people seem to think unemployment cant happen to them dont fool yourself !!

ahhhhhhh yes there are a LOT of people on these forums who have a very very very long way to fall should financial mishap or loss of job or health come to their door.................

neverdespairgirl

UnderPressure wrote: »

You obviously do not have a family of 4 living on £150 a week! And £400 a month on bills? Do you live in the same country as the rest of us? £400 a month would not pay half mine and no there is no Sky or smoking!!!!!

I'm 35 -not 85 - and our bills are well under £400 a month. That's water, gas, electricity, and council tax.

Our council tax is £158 month, our water is £27 a month, our gas and electricity together are, on average over the year, £85 / month. So that's £270 a month. Add in TV licence, no Sky, and we'd have plenty of change from £400 a month. That's a 3 bed flat in London.

Own_My_Own

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm 35 -not 85 - and our bills are well under £400 a month. That's water, gas, electricity, and council tax.

Our council tax is £158 month, our water is £27 a month, our gas and electricity together are, on average over the year, £85 / month. So that's £270 a month. Add in TV licence, no Sky, and we'd have plenty of change from £400 a month. That's a 3 bed flat in London.

I assumed they were including rent/mortgage payments.

MacMickster

Own_My_Own wrote: »

I assumed they were including rent/mortgage payments.

No. They weren't. It was a response to this.

If a family of 4 were paying £1250 monthly rent and say £400 on bills, I would expect them to be able to get by relatively comfortably on a further £650 per month (£150 per week) without facing starvation due to an expected £20 tax credit payment not hitting their bank account.

Own_My_Own

MacMickster wrote: »

No. They weren't. It was a response to this.

Oh. Sorry.

ETA I wish I only had water, gas, electric and council tax as my bills. Unfortunately I also have a home phone, Internet, tv licence, house insurance, car insurance. I also have to put some away for my MOT and car tax. But then I must just be unlucky.

MacMickster

Own_My_Own wrote: »

Oh. Sorry.

ETA I wish I only had water, gas, electric and council tax as my bills. Unfortunately I also have a home phone, Internet, tv licence, house insurance, car insurance. I also have to put some away for my MOT and car tax. But then I must just be unlucky.

So how much do your monthly bills come to? £800+ like the poster who thinks that anyone saying £400 must be living in a different country?

Some on this thread were suggesting that people living in the south east would be destitute if forced to live on net monthly income of around £2300 (like the OP), and so it was understandable that not receiving a payment of £20 from HMRC would leave the family without food for a week whilst she was unable to pay to get to work.

That £20 seems to go a very long way. It seems as if that is the only part of her monthly income that the OP actually budgets with.

Own_My_Own

MacMickster wrote: »

So how much do your monthly bills come to? £800+ like the poster who thinks that anyone saying £400 must be living in a different country?

Some on this thread were suggesting that people living in the south east would be destitute if forced to live on net monthly income of around £2300 (like the OP), and so it was understandable that not receiving a payment of £20 from HMRC would leave the family without food for a week whilst she was unable to pay to get to work.

That £20 seems to go a very long way. It seems as if that is the only part of her monthly income that the OP actually budgets with.

No they don't come to £800, but neither are they the 4 bills my reply referred to. I was simply pointing out that both posters were using figures that were not the norm.

Dunroamin

Own_My_Own wrote: »

Oh. Sorry.

ETA I wish I only had water, gas, electric and council tax as my bills. Unfortunately I also have a home phone, Internet, tv licence, house insurance, car insurance. I also have to put some away for my MOT and car tax. But then I must just be unlucky.

Most people refer to utilities when they say "bills" but even the additional items you list should only add an extra £100 or so a month.

Own_My_Own

Dunroamin wrote: »

Most people refer to utilities when they say "bills" but even the additional items you list should only add an extra £100 or so a month.

Do they? If it comes out of my bank monthly it is a bill .
And Did I say my bills were £100s more. No I didn't.
I simply said neither poster (in trying to make they point)
were giving true amounts.