New £23k Benefit Cap.

[legotits]

AIBU to ask if anyone still supports this?

Which families is this targeted at?

Anyone who will be affected, is it even feasible to not be pushed into debt?

legotits

After the 14th time my money was stopped, I found a job that allows me to work from home for the same amount of money ie: a pittance.

I take 7 injections, 8 steroids and a million pain killers to get through one day- I cant straighten my arms, sit right, stand straight, but Im envied too.

Im about 5 mins from getting fired because I cant type as well as I used to - so Ill be on the breadline just in time for Christmas.

BTW as someone heavily connected with Dover, £600 a month rent in Dover gets you a 3 or small 4 bed house or a luxurious 2 bed, that rent is excessively high as an example. The amount for housekeeping is also ridiculously high.

Wages need to rise, first and foremost.

I'm a working poor single mother, working for the government, ironically. I don't claim any benefits at all, we just make do with what I earn - £13,000. I've always worked hard and I'm well-educated to degree level, I'm just not a high earner. I don't blame myself for my low earnings.

How can anyone begrudge disabled people, single mums or those that can't find work (because there aren't enough jobs) their benefits. Everyone should get at least £20,000 a year to live, because it costs that much to live. I really hope it never drops lower than this. We should all want to protect the most vulnerable, because that's what civilised people do.

I would hate to be unemployed and living on benefits. It's not something to be envious of.

NameChanger to be fair if you are entitled I would claim them.

portia. I already paid a top up on my rent (from my income support) - when my LL increased my rent earlier this year, I wasn't entitled to any extra support as the cap is £550 for a two bed place. My rent is now £650, and my seasonal job is ended.

It makes me terrified that one day I'll have to move out of the county I was born in, where my son, sister and niece were born, just to afford somewhere to live, while tiny fishermans' cottages, that originally housed families with up to ten members, are being snapped up for £500,000 and left empty for ten months of the year, while homeless people sleep in fields and on beaches in December and January.

I am entitled to claim tax credits/universal credit but I don't for lots of reasons. We manage fine without it. There are lots of people that are entitled to claim who choose not to.

Snips add up how many people you know who are like you, just hanging on.

For one reason or another most of us are closer than we think.

We need to tell the truth here.
We are punishing people with poverty.

Oh yes, and if sheldon wants to believe I chose to live in some mini-mansion and asked the state to fund it, I'm more the willing to post a few photos. Salubrious it ain't ....

Unfortunately lots of people have to move from where they were brought up. Horrible to have to move, but not unusual for those who work.

lego. And punishing their children, too.

And lots of people are one step away from total poverty and possibly homelessness.

Burgess

Jess Don't know what to say except I hope you don't have to go. I am lucky to be able to work from home but if my Dad hadn't left me some money I would be living back with my Mum at 36years old

brasty. I've already explained why I don't work. I have a four year old son with what was described as a 'high-scoring' ASD diagnosis. At the moment, he can only cope with three hours a day of school (mainstream as Cornwall County Council rejected the EHC plan that would have and should have gained him entrance into a special needs school - and denied the second one 24 hours before his assessment date).

I had hoped that his starting school might mean my starting work but that is not the case right now. It's frustrating, isolating and lonely. Meanwhile his father , who pretty much had a meltdown once the 'A' word was brought up by my son's paediatrician, has moved miles away, gives no financial support and evades all mention of it.

I'm tired of having to defend myself. I don't want to be on benefits; I want a better life for both of us, but right now he does fifteen hours in school, between nine and twelve. If anyone would like to offer me a sustainable, long term job based upon my availability then please do.

portia. I guess there's always my Booker Prize winning novel....

I haven't asked you to defend yourself. I haven't criticised you.

Jess You could write about NRPs and the level of unhappiness they leave behind them

Oddly I'm in a similar position Portia I live in my DF house.

I worked and had a mortgage but didn't have enough equity to see me through when I became ill.

It suited him because he was downsizing and if he hadn't offered I would be in a different position.

No, brasty, I know. Sorry, that's not how I meant to come across. It's just that in this anti-benefits culture, I always feel the need to explain myself. More my issue than yours.

I support this watching my husband get up at 6 am every morning hardens my resolve

While the people next door have there rent paid get more than us whilest not lifting a fucking finger and they have 4 children and 7 yes 7 fucking dogs

portia. Well, they do say write about what you know... . How would I deal with the disclaimer that the book does not relate to 'any persons living or dead'?!

Erm I'll think about that Jess

fishwife how do you know how much they get?

How do you know TheFish?

What should happen? Children should suffer because you're bitter about their neighbours?

But fishe, that's exactly what the govt want. To encourage envy and resentment amongst the poorest, while pissing vast sums of money down the drain on their own salaries, needless wars, the biggest sponging family of them all (when I see Queen Liz having to defend her income, I'll chill) etc etc.