No money for food until payday?

Calz922

I guess now that I think about it when I do get a job I just won't have a bath or maybe once a week. I could wash my face in toilets at work. Charge my phone at work. It's just using my electric cooker and fridge freezer that I would need to have money for.

mattcanary

missapril75 wrote: »

Well done for looking at everything in a negative way.

You missed where I said to put aside whether benefit levels are enough.

The reality is that people have to live on it and make it last. Some manage better than others.

Yes it could. Or it could cost nothing at all. Or it could cost somewhere in between.

Ever heard of people living in places with buildings, like, cities, and not far from work?

Perhaps you HAVE a bike is what I said. You know, already, like. It's not unheard of.
I also suggested one could be bought cheap, you know used. Not everyone is penniless. Perhaps one could even be borrowed.

Maybe you need to take things a bit slower and read what people say. Here, let me help. Here's what I said - "Maybe... you can buy food on a credit card (if you have one)"
As in already have one (like maybe already have a bike). They don't get taken away when you apply for JSA.

Really? People in work can't get loans? That's novel.

Here, let me add something to your glass.
People wait to get wages, shock horror. That's never happened before has it. Tell you what, let's have nobody ever start work because wages are paid in arrears.

I went from weekly paid to monthly paid a few decades ago. It didn't kill me. You have to be inventive. Or creative. Millions do it all the time you know. Everybody who starts work has to wait for next income. Fortunately they don't all put up barriers and, yes, some people will already have barriers. Why do you want to help them build more?

Well, you know, help them to buy a bus pass. Or a cheap bike. You know, something useful. Useful like everyone else's suggestions.

Check out Mersey's response. You might learn something.

Have you got some ulterior motive for putting people off starting work and improving their lives? That's the sort of thing one might expect from a Tory.

Calz being worried about being able to make it until next payday if finding work, suggests strongly that he/she has little in the way of money or resources to help them through the month

Calz922

mattcanary wrote: »

Calz being worried about being able to make it until next payday if finding work, suggests strongly that he/she has little in the way of money or resources to help them through the month

What do you mean?

NYM

Calz922 wrote: »

What do you mean?

That you are concerned that you won't have any money to see you through until you get paid if you get a job?

:think:
Isn't that what this thread has been about?

heartbreak_star

At the end of the day, if you want to work and you find a job, you muddle through until you get paid. It's what I and so many others had to do - it's either barely exist on JSA or plan and push until payday.

You can do it

HBS x

TESCOBABE56

heartbreak_star wrote: »

At the end of the day, if you want to work and you find a job, you muddle through until you get paid. It's what I and so many others had to do - it's either barely exist on JSA or plan and push until payday.

You can do it

HBS x

Considering the alternative I cant see anyone not doing it.