Take home pay query...

Tr@cker

paddedjohn wrote: »

The dentist bit is a red herring really, some of us don't need to go from one year to the next.
Under 35 year old single bloke would only get the shared accom rate so about £70-£80 per week, £71.60 jsa and roughly £10 per week help with council tax. A grand total of around £160 for doing nothing but no prospects for getting a wage rise or career advancement.
The benefit system starts to go wrong when kids and child tax credits are thrown into the mix, then it starts to look more beneficial to live off the state.

Im not saying singles get too many benefits, though i know a few people who get DLA and with other benefits can match or exceed the equivalent of £225 per week.


I am saying the minimum wage is pathetic and doesn't do much to incentivise people-if they could get a job at all the way the jobs market is right now. Employers are calling all the shots with so many desparate people and a big, big pool of people out of work.

If you've been unemployed for over 12 months most employers dont want to know you anyway.

AP007

Tr@cker wrote: »

No wonder they dont wanna come off benefits.

Who don't to come off benefits?

paddedjohn

Alright then, say the min wage was increased to £7/hr over night, how would you pay for it?

AP007

Tr@cker wrote: »

Im not saying singles get too many benefits, though i know a few people who get DLA and with other benefits can match or exceed the equivalent of £225 per week.


I am saying the minimum wage is pathetic and doesn't do much to incentivise people-if they could get a job at all the way the jobs market is right now. Employers are calling all the shots with so many desparate people and a big, big pool of people out of work.

If you've been unemployed for over 12 months most employers dont want to know you anyway.

I am single and JUST get JSA - nothing else.

Make that 6 months and not everyone gets housing etc so 1p over JSA means you are better off

AP007

Tr@cker wrote: »

As for benefits, i havent studied them in detail but a single man living solo and paying rent could get housing benefit, council tax reduction-up to 100%-and £71.60 per week jobseekers. Then there's free prescriptions and dental care.

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What if they have a mortgage? I don't think housing pay for that so could then be homeless

Tr@cker

AP007 wrote: »

What if they have a mortgage? I don't think housing pay for that so could then be homeless

I dont know with mortgages, i checked out a theoretical case on the UGOV website to see what benefits are available for a single unemployed adult living solo in social housing (a flat) and they came up with what i listed.

Today i asked my own daughter, who has a permanent illness what her benefits are.

£301 per fortnight and £290 per month DLA. Not that i begrudge her of course, just drawing comparisons.

Oh and to the poster who called free dental care ' a bit of a red herring ' You wouldn't think so if you had MY teeth

I also take regular medication which i have to pay for.

AP007

Tr@cker wrote: »

I dont know with mortgages, i checked out a theoretical case on the UGOV website to see what benefits are available for a single unemployed adult living solo in social housing (a flat) and they came up with what i listed.

Today i asked my own daughter, who has a permanent illness what her benefits are.

£301 per fortnight and £290 per month DLA. Not that i begrudge her of course, just drawing comparisons.

Oh and to the poster who called free dental care ' a bit of a red herring ' You wouldn't think so if you had MY teeth

I also take regular medication which i have to pay for.

You are just generalising like a lot of the UK public who know nothing really about benefits for single people. Maybe take a look at Shelter as they will tell you who cant get housing etc

Also when you first lose your job you do not get any free prescriptions or dentist for 6 mths till your NI contribution has run out so for that time heaven help you need a filing of a prescription.