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Dont know where to start :(
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Treasure, can I ask, is your husband not getting paid sick pay?"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does, except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place." — Abigail Van Buren0
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£72.55 is the current SSP rate so i would guess that the £72 spoken about is that.Debt Now~Total-£14,366.72~CC-£1,600.00~Sofa-£1,349.01~Loan-£11,417.71
:eek:Debt@Oct 12~Total £15,674.60~CC-£1,636.40~Sofa-£1,648.77~Loan-£12,389.43:eek:0 -
Im shocked at how helpful you all are and thank you ! every single person has made me feel a little lighter and less stressed today .
Treasure
You ain't seen nothing yet. If you allow them the DFW community will stick with you, help support and advise you all the way to life being OK.
I would suggest that you follow the advice from George and do you SOA because you do need this when you get in touch with other people. if you put it up on here, people may have ways of reducing the spends.
Have a look at www.entitledto.com, to see what benefits you may be able to get. You should have WTC and/or CTC coming in I would have thought. CTC has to be claimed before April1 I think it is or you lose the entitlement to the previous year's money.
Someone else will know the numbers to ring to sort this out. You should also be getting some HB.
We need to separate out the financial things from the other problems with OH employer. I assume that if he was hurt at work and has more then a few days off/ has to have corrective surgery, the HSE are involved?
It may be worth sending a pm to debtdoctor who is a CAB worker as I think are penguin83 and herbie21. All very experienced advisors.
It is not a huge help money wise but some people get £50 per month so will also post up the links to Chevaliers and others survey sites and pay for clicks stuff.If you've have not made a mistake, you've made nothing0 -
Yes we (my partner my son and myself) are all living on my partners SCP of £72 per week tat is all we have had to live on for te last 20 odd weeks ,Hence wy my deb has gotten to this point. After £30 on shopping a week and £20 gas £15 on school dinners there is nothing left to pay bills.
You may ask why i pay for school dinners rather then packed lunch , but my boy needs a good hot meal some days we only have super noodles for dinner and he needs to eat well . I dont care if i live on spuds and noodles lol but my son needs at leat one good meal a day:think: Trying to get my life back !0 -
Yes we (my partner my son and myself) are all living on my partners SCP of £72 per week tat is all we have had to live on for te last 20 odd weeks ,Hence wy my deb has gotten to this point. After £30 on shopping a week and £20 gas £15 on school dinners there is nothing left to pay bills.
You may ask why i pay for school dinners rather then packed lunch , but my boy needs a good hot meal some days we only have super noodles for dinner and he needs to eat well . I dont care if i live on spuds and noodles lol but my son needs at leat one good meal a day
You should be getting Child Benefit as well, I would have thought you would have been entitled to free school meals as well."Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does, except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place." — Abigail Van Buren0 -
Tax credits too!0
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Yes we (my partner my son and myself) are all living on my partners SCP of £72 per week tat is all we have had to live on for te last 20 odd weeks ,Hence wy my deb has gotten to this point. After £30 on shopping a week and £20 gas £15 on school dinners there is nothing left to pay bills.
You may ask why i pay for school dinners rather then packed lunch , but my boy needs a good hot meal some days we only have super noodles for dinner and he needs to eat well . I dont care if i live on spuds and noodles lol but my son needs at leat one good meal a day
Ooh Treasure, I have tears running down my face after reading this post, please contact the CAB today, you are entitled to more money, and you need to eat well.:grouphug:"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does, except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place." — Abigail Van Buren0 -
Speak to the school re school dinners off the top of my head free school dinners are available to incomes less than 13k, many people do not claim who are entitled they will point you in the direction to claim.0
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You should be getting tax credits and child benefit, at least. I really dont off the top of my head know what else you shpuld be getting as SSP is classed as income i think.Debt free and plan on staying that way!!!!0
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take a look at this website, it gives you some info on who's entitled to free school dinners
http://www.raisingkids.co.uk/food/edu_06.ASP"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does, except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place." — Abigail Van Buren0
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