Todays Budget has resulted in the average workers getting a load of money

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A load of money back in their pocket. I believe the average is 1300 a year for a person on an average wage is a few quid short of 35,000.

That is a real saving

However, those paying tax but no NI as pensioners don't have to pay it or if you don't work won't get a penny of that. My OH and I left work years ago not reached state retirement age and won't gain a penny but we are really happy for the majority that work as work must be rewarded.

A lot of winners here. We are not for reasons as stated above but still happy with the budget, inc the extra money for the NHS and completing 200,00 extra operations a year and money for improved IT system.

I feel this budget is good for those in work and rightly so and those in work with children of up to school leaving age?

Where did you find one?
Be interesting to see what the changes are

Food prices going up by 25% from January 22 to January 24, we all have to eat regardless of our budgets.

https://news.sky.com/story/budget-latest-national-insurance-cut-2p-income-tax-mortgages-money-blog-sky-news-live-13040934

SKY have this one. That's what I posted for my figures above.

What minimal savings this budget may give the "average" worker (whatever that is), it is completely negligible compared the huge increase in COL over the past couple of years.

My salary should be at least 25k higher to be able to have a similar lifestyle to the equivalent from my parents generation. The feeling of not being able to give my own DC what I had despite being a highly qualified professional cuts deep :(

Not gone down well.

Was just the sky news one.. took me to a link

This was a petty blah budget to be honest.

So much needs fixing and this does nothing to actually achieve that.

It was just horse trading.

Oh and if you live in Birmingham you will have even less as they have up increase council tax so much

Using that calculator linked above, I’ll be £50 month worse off and husband will be £120 a month worse off.

😂

Hear hear!

It is a drop in the ocean, ocean of crumbiness!

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Hi Rishi....we meet again.
If you're not Rishi you must be a Tory bot, always popping up saying how great the F Tories are. Like hell they are!

The only thing I approve of is getting rid of non dom status and even then they had to put a sweetener in it and kick tax 4 years down the line!! A policy they have nicked from Labour of course -

Rishi, shouldn't you be checking your wife has stacked the dishwasher correctly or the beds are made properly or something, regards, unhappy Average Earner

What a crock of shit

On a salary of...£ 32,000 per year
National Insurance changes since Autumn 2023 will save you...£64.77 every month in 2024/25
But frozen tax thresholds mean you pay an extra...£62.06 a month next year, across both income tax and NI, than if thresholds had increased with inflation as normal since April 2021
In total that means you take home £2.71 more every month

I am sure that will cover the soaring costs of food and clothing, the 5% council tax increase, the inevitable rental increase my LL does each year, and the additional £100 a month nursery fees.

And once again no increase to for the tax-free childcare - its been £2K a year for years, where as nursery fees increase by £100 a year.

Assuming the op is real & not a very poor attempt at a Tory lackey impersonating a ‘real’ person, it’s proof that there are people so lacking in critical thinking or basic maths, who also are so desperate to keep the tories in power, that they will see crumbs, call it cake and expect everyone to be grateful.

Same people who presumably believed the Brexit bus maths. This country has not only been fucked by Tories but by those would and have voted in turnips instead of people who might do some good or try to make life better or fairer for everyone. Happy to be shot in the foot as long as someone else is shot in both feet

Nice try. Head of the OBR - the people who are supposed to forecast government spending and borrowing - said that Government spending plans were 'worse than fiction' before the budget.

'Hughes said the OBR’s forecasts rely on the information given by government about its “desired path” for spending on public services. But he said the government has provided almost no detail on how it is going to deliver its long-term plans and so the budget watchdog is having to base its forecasts on the government’s broad assumptions about day-to-day and capital spending.
“The government did a spending review, setting out detailed departmental spending plans for the year up until 31 March 2025. Beyond that, we know virtually nothing,” Hughes said.
“It is just two numbers, one for total current spending and one for total capital spending done by departments. And I think some people have referred to that as a work of fiction. I think that's probably generous given that someone's bothered to write a work of fiction, whereas the government hasn't even bothered to write down what its departmental spending plans are underpinning the plans for public services."
Hughes said the OBR also had to programme into its forecasts the "questionable policy assumption" that fuel duty will rise in line with inflation.
"In fact, it's been frozen in every year since 2010. That delivers £6bn of that improvement in the primary balance. If that doesn't happen, you're already £6bn down," he said.

Yes isn't it great. As long as you don't mind having an even more badly funded social care system, NHS, highway maintenance and ducking everything else that's publicly funded.

Exactly - CB for people earning 80k, yet not a lot of extra help for low paid earners without kids of which i am one. Earning not a lot but still having to help two kids through Uni as loans won't even cover their rents, yet obviously don't get any CB for them.

We will be worse off. Frankly I've had enough of the Tories. Doing far too little to help the worst off, and screwing over anyone doing alright. I wouldn't even mind if the extra was going to be well spent, but they're just taking ever more off us to waste. Time to get rid.

Loadsamoney?! In their back pockets?! What a time to be alive!!

@Over40Overdating says it better than I did. But still, all that money, in the back pocket ...

Brilliant 😂

nope i would prefer an increase in public spending than a tax cut! They will spend the money better?? what have they been doing for the last 14 years??

Its a joke, the country is on its knees. the only thing I agree with is the non dom, the raise in child benefit threshold and reform and the tax reforms on holiday rentals