My boyfriends SOA - Help needed here

astonsmummy

Water rates are what roughly £10pw aijnt they, so now you fella rents a 2 bed flat in london for £40 odd quid a week?

black-saturn

astonsmummy wrote: »

Water rates are what roughly £10pw aijnt they, so now you fella rents a 2 bed flat in london for £40 odd quid a week?

According to his rent book the water proportion is £12 per month. He is in COUNCIL accommodation which is meant to be affordable.

astonsmummy

black-saturn wrote: »

According to his rent book the water proportion is £12 per month. He is in COUNCIL accommodation which is meant to be affordable.

Oh please, i have lived in a council flat, a council house and now live in a housin association house and the rents dont differ much from flat to house.
So you mean to tell me he has the cheapest rent and the cheapest water rates in london and possible the whole counrty?
My sis lives in london in an AFFORDABLE council flat, clapham park estate, ever heard of it, it's being knocked dowm and rebuilt because it's like beruit, her rent has never been that low and she's lived there years.
I dont think you can expect people to beleive you when nothing you post ever adds up.

HariboJunkie

black-saturn wrote: »

I'll ask him again tonight. I'm sure the figure is per month.

He spends a lot of time travelling from shop to shop which takes time but he doesn't get paid for it. So when I say he's at work all that time there was probably 1 or 2 hours of that day spent travelling from one branch to another.

Sorry BS but you said he doesn't have any work related expenses yet he spends alot of time travelling from shop to shop..... and..... I still don't get the wages figures. His hourly rate is illegally low. Are you absolutely sure the figures are correct? You can't get help on here if the figures are wrong.

krisskross

You must love him an awful lot to be considering marrying someone earning less than £500 a month. I know money isn't everything but I'd find life pretty miserable without it.

tru

The figures DO add up, the only mistake BS made was to put £40 per month instead of £40 per week for WTC.

The totals are correct

Not sure if he's self-employed, but if he is then he's probably getting paid for working, but not for the travel in between the jobs. That's quite normal

HariboJunkie

black-saturn wrote: »

I'll have to ask him for more details tonight as his work hours are really all over the place. I don't know how he keeps track. Off the top of my head I think he does about 30 hours per week but also spends a lot of time travelling from store to store which you could class as unpaid work as it's part of the job really. So even though he starts in one store at 6am he might work there till 10am and then spend an hour on a bus to another store. Then he will work from 11am to 2pm at that store and then spend another hour on a bus where he would work from 3pm to 6pm. He would usually eat his lunch on a bus too.

And your point is fair enough Tru but that doesn't account for the fact that his bus fares are not on the SOA and that he works 30 hours a week for £472 a month. Not saying I don't believe but just that I think these figures may be wrong and that the travel expenses have been ommitted.

Jacks_xxx

:wave: Hiya honey,

I'm not up to date with the whole thread, but your fella and his daughter's position has been on my mind.

I've been kind of worrying about them, and I hope you don't mind but I punched some of your fellas figures into entitled to.co.uk and according to that he's definitely entitled to some help.

The amounts it came up with were (per week)

Tax Credit £104
Working tax Credit £58
Child tax credit £45
Council tax benefit £1.82 (WoooHOO! Oh well I s'pose it adds up.)

Please don't let him struggle on being proud, that safety net is there for a reason, and the chance to be £800 better off a month is not to be sniffed at huh?

(It'd buy a nice lap top for a start!)

I hope I haven't offended you honey. I just really want them to get what they're entitled to.

Love Jacks xxx

astonsmummy

tru wrote: »

The figures DO add up, the only mistake BS made was to put £40 per month instead of £40 per week for WTC.

The totals are correct

Not sure if he's self-employed, but if he is then he's probably getting paid for working, but not for the travel in between the jobs. That's quite normal

I would hardly call working from 6am to 4pm 6 days a week for £108 normal.
He could earn that working half those hours.

tru

From reading threads and posts on this site, it would seem that in a couple, one is good at budgeting, one is [strike]rubbish[/strike] not so good (thinking of me and mr tru here as well lol).

If you ask mr tru how much he needs for one week to live on, he'll tell you. Then ask him 'what about paying for X?' and he'll say 'oh I forgot about that'. Perhaps Mr BS is the same? BUT that's the whole point of threads like this, isn't it? To pick the SOA apart and come up with suggestions.

If Mr BS finds out he's not paid enough, then the SOA will change but to be fair, that's a completely different subject.

We can only go on the figures as they are now.