benefits - can anyone advise?

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hi i am a regulare but have name changed for this. i was wondering if anyone would e able to help me here. i have seen on the news about benfits being cut/capped but cant seem to find any exact figures.

was wondering if anyone could be able to help me and see if my benefit will be capped or cut, so that i can be prepared for this.

i recieve weekly:
£135 child tax credit
£48 cb
£65 incone support
£145 hb
£12 ctb

i no this seems like a huge amount when written like this but in reality it isnt. once i have paid gas, elec, water rates (£28 per week!), tv licence etc there is not much left for food/nappies.

i would be very grateful if anyone could help. i am not intending to be on benefit forever and i do want to better myself for myself and my children.

The gap between working or not working should be wider and this government will probably manage to widen it somehow but not to the benefit of the workers, more to the detriment of the non workers. That's not really helping anyone except spitting in the ocean of the deficit.

I work full-time at 30hrs a week, I could work full-time at 37hrs a week but would be worse off as I would lose the benefits I can claim. Also petrol costs to get to work so I get to sit on my arse and watch Jeremy Kyle 3 weekdays in a month! If it would have given me an extra £30 a week to pay for a new kitchen. I would be working the extra day.

Oh no Gideon, that's awful .

Would the safe zone only be limited to certain posters? How would that work? How do you stop posters putting up what they want unless any post had to be checked by MNHQ first.

ebay....good if you happen to have a van to hand to transport it all in!! and if like me,fleeing dv,i moved to a brand new location....knew nobody who could help,no family here etc etc....so not quite so easy

fastest moving thread ive seen

scared to have a pee,will be on page 34 if i do

Nigella not at all- just the opposite of AIBU really (and SN) where if you post within there you agree to play nicely and people who don;t can be deletd; SN already has an opt in button so MNHQ could choose that system, for precisely the same reasons as this.

There's nothing tos top people taking the issue elsewhere but ATM if I had a real problem with something difficult or scary I would never post ehre. Whcih is a shame; a decade i;ve been here. I remmeber posting one night as the police looked to find Dh after he called to say goodbye (he was seriosuly depressed)- I would never do that now, there'd be someone along to tell me MH issues were all amde up.

But that's it Eleanor. I had no internet access at that time, and I wouldn't have had the £35 or whatever either. I have already said I had £130 a week, to go on food, nappies, bills, and laundrette (no room for washing machine in a hostel). And no, with a baby and toddler I didn't have time to handwash every damn thing, and couldn't have anyway in a shared bathroom with Mr Vom. All this telling me this and that doesn't mean anything. I know what my circumstances were.

"I still think they have the right to make their own choices, even if I consider them to be bad ones."

Since the money is really meant to be for the children anyway, I am sorry but I disagree when other people are paying for those choices, once to buy the crap food, fags, etc in the first place (and yes bleat about stereotypes all you like but every person I know who is on benefits smokes and nobody I know who works does so straw poll yes but there we go), then we pay again to treat them as a result of their ignorance. It's annoying to say the least.
If you work and want to puff yourself to death, wasting your own hard earned money that's your look out.

theywillgrowup lol

SGM- only reason we have heating on topday is becuase DH cannot solder with numb fingers, and he can't sell if he dosn;t build can he?

Naughty us

mamatomany...I can't quite work out if you are actually for real or not ..nobody thinks like you, really do they?

Agree AIBU is an active place but if the OP poste din say money issues you could still get the same responses or someone can link a thread to a thread - its a behaviour issue and the internet is pretty open.

spikeycow - re your comment about not being able to afford your son a new coat, try Ebay, I paid £3.67 for a 6/7 year old one a few week's back. Very good condition and is M&S.

mamatomany - ;and yes bleat about stereotypes all you like but every person I know who is on benefits smokes and nobody I know who works does so straw poll yes but there we go'

are you for real!! omg.

Seriously.

lets turn this round for a second.
I claim partial benefits. i DO work.

My granparents own a HUGE farm, with lakes, and a riding school and a long driveway, with fields and fields.

My parents, while not wealthy, had a big house, nice car, holidays abroad.

My mother stayed at home, my father worked, i went to what was the 'grammer school' I speak french and german, i had a few weeks at finishing school. Ive never touched drugs and have smoked a grand total of about 5 cigarettes in my life. Forget 'nice ham' we used to get it from the farm up the road.

I HATE STEREOTYPES. IT IS BULLSHIT.

Open you eyes for gods sake.

Many do UsualSuspect.
Anyway, this "total moron" has to go study now. What a waste of an afternoon this thread has been.

gideon I agree "nice" is subjective and will entirely except that it what is "nice" is a ridiculous argument to which their is no answer.

However, since I had already said that everyone is entitled to a warm, safe home my definition of "nice" goes beyond the essentials.

I don't think the government should be paying for non essential items, as a matter of course, and items such as wardrobes are in my opinion extras. Not for as long as there are people who genuinely struggle to feed their children; can't obtain the necessary health equipment for their children to have a decent standard of living.

Frankly I am amazed that my comments have provoked such outrage

no mama,you are wrong,wrong,wrong....and wrong AGAIN!!!

the income support is paid to the adult ,FOR the adult.....not the kids

the CHILD tax credits and CHILD benefit is for the dc........

I clothe the two of us from ebay (well virtualy) everything!
The bargains are amazing.

Thanks Brian. Will have a look.

Is the wardrobe the new plasma tv ?

Try freecycle too - personally tend now to give stuff away rather than have the hastle of ebay etc.

Ah Mama didn't beleive I ever worked yesterday. Yet today I am registering as self employed; she probably thinks that is a scam too.

There are those who are too blind to see and all that.