Benefits and children leaving home.

jaylee3

Poppie68 wrote: »

Plenty of people move or decide to work away from their families to afford rent or mortgage payments....not everyone thankfully wants to rely on handouts to pay the way without trying to help change their own circumstances.

Exactly!

marleyboy wrote: »

Thats odd. I managed to move into three separate properties whilst working FT. Yet I still had my job, family and friends.

Unless your house is slap bang in the middle of a moor, and your job is peat bogging behind the house, I see no reason why moving would cost you your job, friends and family.

:T Quite. Many people I have known have managed to move to a cheaper area and still manage to see family and friends just as often. Poor excuse imo.

Poppie68 wrote: »

Your previous posts state you have one job, if in fact you do have others and you still can't afford rent isn't that telling you that you need to make drastic changes?

This ^^^ I think some reassessment of what is going on financially needs doing. If someone works so many hours (supposedly,) and is still struggling so bad, then maybe they need to rethink their finances?

Maybe the OP should put their SOA up, and someone can assist.

jaylee3

Deleted_User wrote: »

No I don't want this. I know it is unreal. I am just wondering what people do! And once kids leave home (in my case just ONE) the rent remains the same and the rent is the biggest expense…
I know, move to a cheaper area, flat, and all that. I get it.

This is like groundhog day.

You have been told many times already, and you are not listening, or it is not sinking in.

I shall refer you back to my post (15)

Read it again.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=67935312&postcount=15

Poppie68

The lady with a nice shiny car would still most probably be effected by the benefit cap so living in London as you both do her car his most probably finance free or someone else pays for it....she will be in the same situation as you are as chances are she will have to contribute to her rent and council tax.

jaylee3

Deleted_User wrote: »

Where I live, moving doesn't make much difference unless you change go to other county.

What do you mean? That there is nowhere in this country that is cheaper than where you live?

So why is there a problem then? :huh:

[Deleted User]

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

The government will, rightly in my opinion, keep on turning the screws on your unemployed friend, so you will see fewer and fewer jobless people able to maintain a lifestyle the employed struggle to keep up with. If you're lucky, they will be forced to move to cheaper accommodation, freeing up some accommodation for you and reducing rents slightly, so their demise may be your blessing. If you believe in the value of gainful employment, let your vote reflect that.

She isn't my friend. She is an acquaintance that is jealous of my job and keeps approaching me trying to discover 'my secret'.

She rents privately. When her H left she remained there and the LL never increased the rent so she has a very good deal.

[Deleted User]

jaylee3 wrote: »

Exactly!



:T Quite. Many people I have known have managed to move to a cheaper area and still manage to see family and friends just as often. Poor excuse imo.



This ^^^ I think some reassessment of what is going on financially needs doing. If someone works so many hours (supposedly,) and is still struggling so bad, then maybe they need to rethink their finances?

Maybe the OP should put their SOA up, and someone can assist.

I am not struggling at all.

lighting_up_the_chalice

Deleted_User wrote: »

She isn't my friend. She is an acquaintance that is jealous of my job and keeps approaching me trying to discover 'my secret'.

She rents privately. When her H left she remained there and the LL never increased the rent so she has a very good deal.

So, she thinks the grass is greener in your field, but you think it's greener in hers.

Are you just not getting this

lighting_up_the_chalice

Deleted_User wrote: »

i am not struggling at all.

then stop whinging.

Poppie68

jaylee3 wrote: »

What do you mean? That there is nowhere in this country that is cheaper than where you live?

So why is there a problem then? :huh:

:rotfl: county not country:D

[Deleted User]

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

So, she thinks the grass is greener in your field, but you think it's greener in hers.

Are you just not getting this

But when did I say I think the grass is greener on her side?
I think she is crazy for declining the interviews!
I am very happy and grateful for my job!