Is a single mothers benifits enough

astonsmummy

How can someone olny be £18 better off when working full time and no travel costs?
I am much better off working part time and i run a car

PasturesNew

As a single person, I never bother claiming benefits.
I'd only get JSA + CT paid, which is about £300/month.

As I had a huge mortgage/bills costing £1000/month, I figured I'd rather not be patronised and do all that form filling.... given a day or so I can usually find some way to earn that much until I find the next first person to give me a job.

black-saturn

astonsmummy wrote: »

How can someone olny be £18 better off when working full time and no travel costs?
I am much better off working part time and i run a car

Perhaps that is the key. Work part time and you get to keep your HB and working tax credit so you end up better off than working full time and having most of that taken away.

pandas66

black-saturn wrote: »

Kriss Kross - You didnt think about saving for a private pension when you were racking up the 90 years of work so as not to be such a burden on the tax payer?

how rude!

whether KK paid into a pension for later in her life is no business of ours, she paid her tax contribution then, surely a married couple are allowed to claim unquestionably now.

I think the OP/topic was meant to be about single parent benefit, ie someone yet to pay substaintially into the system.

dmg24

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not entirely true.
Depends where you're living and what job you're doing in what sort of company.

I've always worked for small companies - by small I mean 1-6 employees. No promotions to be had and any promise of more money never came to anything as "times were hard".

But that is your choice to work in that area and in that size of company.

With the experience that you have built up in that company, you are much more likely to gain better paid employment or promotion elsewhere, than somewhere that has sat at home doing nothing.

viktory

black-saturn wrote: »

Kriss Kross - You didnt think about saving for a private pension when you were racking up the 90 years of work so as not to be such a burden on the tax payer?

A burden on the tax payer???? You really are showing your true colours, BS. krisskross has made it clear that she and her husband worked for 90 YEARS!!!! How much tax and NI must they have paid in that time?? Enough to keep many, many people like you in benefits for several years. I hardly think krisskross claiming her pension - and lets make this perfectly clear - it is a pension that she has paid for over and over and over again - makes her a tax burden.

How dare you????

weymuffred

dmg24 wrote: »

Don't be such a drama queen. Once a person starts work, they gradually get pay rises and promotions. Once this starts to happen, a persons income from employment will far exceed income from benefits. Then, even if a person may have accrued debt whilst working their way into a better position, they will be able to pay the debt off.

I do not for a minute believe that someone would 'lose everything' by going into employment. Struggle, quite possibly, but that's life.

So back to my question, should everyone that is better off on benefits give up work?

I beg your pardon but you are becoming personal again dmg24. Look at the news and you see that debt is at its highest and people are loosing everything.

dmg24

PasturesNew wrote: »

As a single person, I never bother claiming benefits.
I'd only get JSA + CT paid, which is about £300/month.

As I had a huge mortgage/bills costing £1000/month, I figured I'd rather not be patronised and do all that form filling.... given a day or so I can usually find some way to earn that much until I find the next first person to give me a job.

I think you have hit the nail on the head here - you will find a way to earn the money that you need. You have what those that would rather stay on benefits without good reason lack - motivation and ambition.

(If ever you want a reference just give me a shout!)

black-saturn

viktory wrote: »

How dare you????

How dare you say my children are a burden on the tax payer :mad:

weymuffred

dmg24 wrote: »

But that is your choice to work in that area and in that size of company.

With the experience that you have built up in that company, you are much more likely to gain better paid employment or promotion elsewhere, than somewhere that has sat at home doing nothing.

It really all depends on where you live.