To be surprised by this ...

[corbyncatpigeons]

In another thread something surprising ‘popped up’ but has been lost in the rest of the discussion.

Jane is the head teacher of a local small school she loves her job and works many hours in and out of school. She earns 56k, of this she pays tax & NI of 16.2k resulting in a net income of 39.8k

In the school there is a really great teaching assistant … he used to be head master of another small school but took a decision to work less and now works 16 hours and is pretty disciplined at sticking to that. He earns 5.6k per year, pays no tax and receives 34.2k in benefits resulting in a net income of 39.8k

Both are single parents with three kids, they both live in three bedroom private rented houses in Chelmsford, council tax is in band D, they both pay 240 per week for childcare.

Credit to twinkle for the idea.

[IfItIsntOkItIsntTheEnd]

What benefits are those?

[99percentchocolate]

I'd like to know which benefits these are too!

[DevonFolk]

How the bugger does that work?

[TurnOffTheTv]

So about 2.8k per month? No way at all this can be true.

[BlueMoonRising]

I'd be surprised if it was true.

[corbyncatpigeons]

Tax Credits 21,248.30
Council tax support 870.97
Housing benefit 9635.08
Child benefit 2501.20

[jelliebelly]

I'm surprised a head teacher of a small local school earns &56k tbh

[definiteissues]

That wouldn't be true at all unless all 3 of his children had severe disabilities meaning that he got the highest rate of carers allowance

[TurnOffTheTv]

I was a single parent with three children in a private rented house and used to get about £900 a month. WTC, CTC, and HB. I worked 16 hours.

[TurnOffTheTv]

How do you know the exact figures?

[laughingatweather]

Tax credits are a top - up benefit in essence.

You're suggesting he takes more than the average full time salary in TC alone.

I don't see how this could be happening.

Also don't see how anyone in this country who works PT is raking in £34,000 a year in accumulated benefits.

[corbyncatpigeons]

I can't believe it either ... it's from putting those facts into the benefit checker. I hope it's a calculating mistake in the model.

[Lj8893]

Oh what total bullshit!

[SaucyJack]

I just ran this through entitledto, and it came out as 24,000 not 34,000- 9,000 of which goes towards buying his LL's house for them.

There were no questions about childcare tho- not that 240 sounds right anyway for someone who works 16 hours a week term-time.

[TurnOffTheTv]

I think whatever website you're using is utter horseshit.

[sugar21]

Rubbish

[TurnOffTheTv]

In the bottom corner on the picture it says 'you are earning £6.7....'
For 16 hours, have you put the wrong wages in? Surely it should be £6,700?

[DownstairsMixUp]

Yawn. Utter rubbish. I earn about that much a year with 2 kids and husbands self employed with new business not taking much profit at the moment, we scrape buy. Seriously what a load of shit.

[corbyncatpigeons]

turnoffthetv that is 6.70 per hour, 16 hours per week.

[TurnOffTheTv]

Ok. But what website?

[CrohnicallyAspie]

The website you used looks familiar... Maybe it's the one I used that said I was entitled to tax credits (not a huge amount, but a little) then when I applied I wasn't?