Bloody W**NKing Tax credits! Or Government should I say

[Hai1988]

Just had my new tax credits award and have just found out that my DH's Working tax credits are being stopped as he has already had his lot for this year, £800!!!

My DH does not have a very well payed job at all and after rent and bills we have f**K all left and the weekly income of £140 really helped that is now just over £50.

So angry We need that extra £80 a week, I know it may not sound much to some but it did make a big difference to out life's.

Who ever voted Tory I hope your happy with yourselves that now so many family's are probably gonna struggle now.

Sorry not really an aibu but really needed to vent and wondered if anyone else is suffering with tax credits this year because of the dam government.

Exactly!
Its no worse than assuming your child wants to be a lawyer because you are- what if they want to be an artist? You can't push them into a career. Children are individuals.

Its also pretty daft thing to do with something a volatile as farming as now proven they have left their own children in a bit a mess frankly.

Still, I guess thats someone else's fault isn't it....

The farming community is slightly different though isn't it?

It is in these parts,it is expected that farmers children continue to run it.

Farming can not be taught like other skills ,most good farms are run by farmers who have lived that life since birth.

I am sure someone will come along with an example of someone who just 'bought a farm' and makes a massive turnover , but that route is unusual.

Farming is generally passed down.

..... And you could equally well say that only teachers children understand what being a teacher involves , and only lawyers children understand their job, and only a gardeners child can understand gardening......

A very narrow minded view...

Well, the fact is it's left these farmers kids with no work.

And if you have an aptitude for farming and would make a fabulous farmer, having less chance of getting into it because the opportunities for 'local village lads' is greater, it's just as bloody unfair as it is for an aspiring doctor or lawyer who cant break into the profession due to nepotism

Alibabaandthe80nappies

DBA - in what manner are doctors running a closed shop? Do tell.... confused

There are many closed-shop practices carried out by doctors and their representatives i.e. the BMA. For example, they regulate their own profession. Handy that.

The BMA is trying to freeze out the private sector from healthcare, regardless of their outcomes to safeguard NHS services to protect their excess pay. The BMA have consistantly blocked proposals to create a fair playing field to give patients more choice of provider.

Here's a link to a newspaper article on some of the underhand closed-shop practices of doctors: www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8039711/NHS-operates-a-closed-shop-market.html

A grauniad article from a couple of years ago said "The typical doctor or lawyer of the future will today be growing up in a family that is better off than five in six of all families in the UK. " Clearly there are more barriers to entry to the professions than qualifications.

Oh and from the Shipman report:
"Having examined the evidence, I have been driven to the conclusion that the GMC has not, in the past, succeeded in its primary purpose of protecting patients," Dame Janet said. "Instead, it has, to a very significant degree, acted in the interests of doctors."

That article has nothing to do with entry to the profession!

janey no, I think farming is known for being a skill that is normally passed down through the generations...I think it works differently.

It is a way of life for many families.

The children have lived that life ...for all their lives,the business is their home since day one.

I don't think there are many other jobs that work that way?

Theres a lot of random googling going on here lol

DBA that has nothing todo with getting into the profession. There is no freezing out of private healthcare. On the contrary many drs practice privately in addition to their Nhs work.
In terms of who becomes a dr, yes it is expensive to train which will put off some good applicants from poorer backgrounds, but all that cost is in the medical degree rather than professional exams or fees. There are no barriers as such.

Running a closed shop doesn't mean nobody can get in. It does mean however that those running the closed shop wield monopoly power which is to the detriment of those who use it's services.

Exactly coco and ali