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What changes will universal credit bring?
E.L.James
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As everyone knows the unemployment numbers are fudged. Unemployment is growing if you include all the self employed who get working tax credits but make a loss year upon year.
What changes will universal credit bring this October? If they are not making min wage per hour they will be added to the unemployment numbers. That is what is proposed at the moment, starting in October. If there are no changes or its not postponed yet again, in October the unemployment numbers are going to shoot up!
What changes will universal credit bring this October? If they are not making min wage per hour they will be added to the unemployment numbers. That is what is proposed at the moment, starting in October. If there are no changes or its not postponed yet again, in October the unemployment numbers are going to shoot up!
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Why not go back to school early and discuss with your economics teacher.Be Alert..........Britain needs lerts.0
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Who knows - I am still waiting for out training on exactly how this will impact our claimants and what it really means. Our computer systems have yet to be updated to handle Universal Credit claims when calculating Council Tax Support
Every time we meet with DWP staff we just get cynical laughing and 'how long is a piece of string' type answers.
Same sort of laughter when they told us ATOS had got the contract to handle some PIP claims These are my own views and you should seek advice from your local Benefits Department or CAB.0 -
UC will be rolled out gradually- it's not going national in Oct as originally planned. The timetable is to move everyone over from the benefits/tax credits affected by 2017. They had said some time ago that there would be no tax credit claims from April 2014 - no news about whether that's still intended to be the case.
I'm not at all sure that the self employed not earning 35x min wage will be considered 'unemployed' for the employment stats. Even people on unpaid 'workfare' schemes are counted as employed for those...0 -
Housing_Benefit_Officer wrote: »Every time we meet with DWP staff we just get cynical laughing and 'how long is a piece of string' type answers.
That's not an answer, that's a question. Reply: it's twice the distance from the centre to one end.RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0 -
One of the biggest changes will be paying people their benefits as one monthly payment. This will include jsa, etc, tax credits and housing benefit. There will be people who spend this money as soon as it comes in and they won't have anything left for food or rent.:rotfl:0
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One of the biggest changes will be paying people their benefits as one monthly payment. This will include jsa, etc, tax credits and housing benefit.
Under UC, they will also have to claim monthly and have to comply with conditions. No more one application for years of housing benefit; council tax benefit; income support or just phoning up once a year for tax credits: then just sitting back and waiting for money to appear every week/every 4 weeks from the welfare state.There will be people who spend this money as soon as it comes in and they won't have anything left for food or rent.
Don't people already get their benefit Tax Credits one a month? And having to budget monthly shouldn't be a problem for all those thousands of claimants who say they are self employed and claim tax credits instead of having to sign on, as surely they have already learned to budget for the business they have stated they run?
When children leave education and start work, they have to learn to budget their monthly salary. It's a good idea for those adults who will be claiming Universal Credit, to learn to budget too as it will prepare them for when they start work/go back to work. Benefits are after all, just meant to be a short term support while the claimant looks for employment.RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0 -
MissMoneypenny wrote: »Benefits are after all, just meant to be a short term support while the claimant looks for employment.
That would be unemployment benefit wouldn't it? Not all benefits are meant to be short term support while claimants look for employment, in fact, the majority of benefits aren't.0 -
That would be unemployment benefit wouldn't it? Not all benefits are meant to be short term support while claimants look for employment, in fact, the majority of benefits aren't.
JSA is for those looking for work, while many other healthly, working age claimants, have used other income based welfare payments longterm, to avoid looking for work/looking for enough hours to support themselves. These loopholes are being closed with Universal Credit.RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0 -
One of the biggest changes will be paying people their benefits as one monthly payment. This will include jsa, etc, tax credits and housing benefit. There will be people who spend this money as soon as it comes in and they won't have anything left for food or rent.
They have the foodbanks for food...
...or they will starve for a month - at least it will solve some of the obesity crisis.
And if they don't pay the rent then they will be deliberately homeless and the Local Authority doesn't need to do diddle squat to rehouse them.These are my own views and you should seek advice from your local Benefits Department or CAB.0 -
Housing_Benefit_Officer wrote: »They have the foodbanks for food...
And the foodbanks don't hand out booz or cigs, so they will have to do without those if they have a binge at the start of the (welfare) month.RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0
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