Are other full-time working families finding there is nothing left?

I have more than that in the bank, but I am entitled to 6 months contributions based JSA.

The £6000 - £16000 savings limits are for means tested benefits.

If I needed PIP, it’s again not means tested so could have as much savings as I want.

People forget that PIP isn’t means tested.

Seems like the majority on here struggling, live in London.
DS1 spent 15 years in London (University and after) had a great time, then "came home North". He now says the quantity of his life has massively improved.

Including the housing allowance, child benefit, Scottish poverty payment and all th other random payments / free dinners etc it comes to around £2k a month.

Because every second person is neurodivergent these days. And amongst some groups of people, claiming PIP for wee Danny with autism or adhd is a way of getting money

Trained coaches absolutely should be paid well. And my son the same constantly with a ball at his feet. One of the dads of the kid he plays with is coach and does the coaching and managing for free, he argues that without volunteers grassroots football would collapse. The £50 we pay is to pay for league fees, and pitch hire etc. my son is 9 he gets an hour of training and a game a week.

i just think the cost of everything is ridiculous and we are on a race to the bottom!!

I think you meant to put that into Google.

How is she getting 24k?

Yes but thats within the 30k yearly income, I'm not just counting mine and dp wages

Why are the number of disabled people per capita increasing ?

Pensions are a benefit. Just like any other benefit. Read the legislation behind it. There is no difference between pensions and any other benefit. Such a common misperception, made because so many pensioners have a thing about claiming benefits.

Why are the number of disabled people per capita increasing ?

this Is part of the problem! Some people are savers, and don’t spend every last penny, so keep some money aside for a rainy day.

whereas others spend every last penny on fripperies, and then they get benefits .

No, they just don't employ them to start with.
But it is easier to blame disabled people for being unemployed, isn't it.

It's not short sighted at all. If you have up to £16k in the bank, you are not poor. You should not be claiming any money from the tax payer. The policy is wrong. I have no issues whatsoever with people in need being helped and contributing to benefits, I hate to see people homeless on the streets and always try to find a few quid to help those more in need. But anyone with savings does not need propped up by the tax payer, if they have savings in the bank, they are not poor and in need.

They legally have to make adaptations

They legally have to make adaptations

If you don't see any disabled people in your office now, I would say that is down to your employers. But it is easier to blame disabled people for being unemployed.
Employers don't want to spend money on adaptions, or risk taking on someone who might need a lot of time off.

One of our teens has football training £50 a month, that’s for 4 hours a week, 4 weeks a month, so £3 an hour, That’s not so bad.

We pay extra for his grassroots team.

These are all non-compulsory costs I mean he can and does take a ball to the park as well, that’s free. Not sure why trained coaches shouldn’t be paid quite well.

Oh how terrible for them penalised by £4.35 per month because they’ve managed to have savings collecting money from the tax payer. It’s an absolute joke.

Just because you don't understand the argument doesn't mean it's not there

In my world, yes. The threshold should be for everyone. It is very unfair that someone on a low wage is taxed, and someone who gets most types of benefit isn't.
It's the same money and has to buy the same things.
I can think of no justification why someone earning £13,000 is taxed and someone getting the same amount in benefits isn't.
Can you?

What other choice do I have, exactly? If I don't care for my disabled child then the state would have to which would certainly cost more than what I currently get in benefits.

We have a decent joint income (just under 6 figures), but was just thinking last night that I feel a lot poorer than we did a few years ago. Increased costs (food, mortgage) and then paying for tuition for DD means that lately we’re having to really budget our money more carefully. We are not on the breadline, or anything: just having to manage a lot more carefully than in the past.

Council tax over £300 a month gives me the rage: so many people don’t pay it at all, or pay a lot less, yet we still get a really shitty service.

a friend is unemployed and not looking for work as the effort involved in working, childcare etc isn’t worth the extra money she’d get by working. But this means tht she’s taking circa £24k from the tax payer every year instead of working and paying tax.

That fluffiness is for the fairies . It’s survival of the fittest now in this country . If working people no longer see value in going to work where do we end up then . This Labour government needs outing and someone else coming in needs to make work pay . When people work and can’t even afford a pizza on a Friday evening we’re in trouble . Going to work these days means paying for an over burdened welfare state whilst we have no defence , shitty roads , shitty health service shitty education and nothing works .
The welfare state needs disbanding and the only state help should be for those who are completely disabled . Companies and businesses should not be paying such low wages the state needs to top them up . If they are they need to revisit their business model . I also think there’s a world of difference between someone being so disabled they cannot do anything and today where any affliction means all types of work is ruled out . When I starting working there were 3 disabled people in my office , a blind lady ran the telephone lines and reception , a Learning disabled man worked in the post room and a veteran with one leg became an office manager . I can’t in later years remember working with anyone disabled .

I’m ’benefit People’ (to quote an earlier post)
lone parent, two jobs and still not enough to survive so receive a top up.
Have to rent and cannot afford to drive; I assure you we are not ‘winning’
The resentment that oozes towards those with considerably less is pathetic.