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.

spikeycow: you'd probably be congratulated for your stylish home decoration choices if you were well off. Ooh, a rat-hide throw. How ecological!

have you lot never heard of 'no more nails' woodglue and superglue????

and sanders for the grafitti and crayon.....being a single mum i'm very good with power tools!!

Sprinkledust, these threads always end with the conclusion that absent parents should be tipped upside down and their pockets emptied nobody would disagree with you there.

when the leg fell off my (incredibly crappily manufactured) IKEA bedside table, it took so much of the chipboard it was attached to that there was no saving the thing.

Pretty much all the furniture DH and I own is from IKEA, and all of it is utter crap. Maybe you get something better if you aren't as stingy as us (or skint), but the stuff we have is terrible. We're saving our pennies up to buy a house at some distant point in the future, though, so we're not buying any more furniture til them.

squallyrose needs to peruse the whole thread.

Jeez - can't believe people here are begrudging the op benefits to help her out as she gets back on her feet.

Some posters here should be ashamed of themselves.

secondcoming i agree i've given up completely i'm now refusing to buy anything but essentials food and clothing, i am paying off my mortgage our only debt as fast as possible and then i am going to work part, part-time as is DH, not even over our tax thresholds. I refuse to be part of the rat race any longer it's not good for my blood pressure.

Can I recommend baby snot SGM. Its holding power makes a mockery of No More Nails IMO.

Or how about the first poo? Meconium or whatever, Would match black furniture especially, and really sticky

Good. Now let's all calm down and have a cup of tea (if we can all afford tea that is).

Tea???!!! That's not free from the tap. You have a massive sense of entitlement.

but what kind of tea? Fears we may be told off if it's too 'posh'.

MAMA....nobody is saying take all the absent parens money.....just the amount that is right to take!!

i get £5 a week to split between 4.....he was in the army before that,now REFUSES to work. he told me it was because the CSA took money from him (back when it was to go directly back to the government to pay for my benefits because he's tipped our lives upside down by being a bit too handy with his fists)

And what would you drink it out of? Too hot to hold, surely

I wonder how many peopl realise that following DV you can be moved anywhere in teh country, and it is often deliberately as far from existing family as possible, becuase amazingly family often give details to 'poor' exp so he can come around and bash them agin.

I've worked with a truly amazing mum of 5 moved halfway across the country at 8 months PG: of course she didn;t ahvea job. But she ahd mroe grit, determination and better parenting skills than a great many of those who have it far easier.

This lady escaped hell; she says she wants to work agin; this is exactly what my taxes are for.

OP, here you go

And good luck

TSC......she doesnt do 'fuck all' she's doing the same as every other SAHM in this country!

SprinkleDust - too be fair you don't get many people who refuse to earn and keep 80% of their own money to avoid paying 20% to somebody else.