AIBU to think that if you earn £22k+ you shouldnt need to use foodbanks?

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Or am I in denial, or just lucky? I earn less than that and admittedly I have to be frugal, live a fairly boring lifestyle (no fancy holidays and shitty old car) but I've never had to rely on a foodbank. I can't get my head around earning £22k and still needing to use a foodbank.

That's how I thought it worked Witsender.

From what i can tell the minimum wage for a nurse is £22k so using that as a minimum that she earns as a nurse. According the papers she works 3 jobs, one of them is for BUPA, but the since Im obviously not privy to her wages, going on the baseline for nhs nurses

OP, from what you posted, this looks like you guessed.

Naked Scientist, middle name thread police?

I think that is a little rude since you, OP, are judging a nurse for going to a food bank because you think she earns too much, so is your middle name 'food bank police'?

If you post on AIBU, you do have to accept that some people will think YABU and not just bombard them with spurious "facts" until they agree with you.

SO, OP you have all the answers already

I did not say that you knew the answers, I said that you HAVE the answers from your food bank manager source.

Facts and accuracy are not your strongest point are they?

Those of you saying 22k isn't a lot, how do you think people on much less manage get by? More than half the country earns less than this, the majority of them don't go to food banks.

Being financially ok is as much about how you manage money as it is about how much you earn. If people on middle incomes need food banks then they need to question their outgoings and change the way they spend.

People manage to get by on less because their outgoings are less, mainly because they live in cheaper parts of the country. 22k wouldn't get you very far in a 2 bed flat in London. It's just not possible.

Of course someone earning this should not have to use Food Banks. Unless they had had a catastrophe. I was very ill for a while and only getting statutory sick pay. If I was single I would have ended up homeless.

What a shitty thread to start.

Admittedly I only read to page 2, who wants to read this tripe??

If she needs help and has been classed as needing said help, then she needs help. The end.

Op, get off that high horse and find something more worthy to occupy your time.

Hardly anyone has to live in London. Most people can live outside London, if they choose to.

It's not always that simple namechanger

In a place like Nottingham £22k would be absolutely fine.

Why would it? My friend rents a nice enough house there (3 bedrooms) and that's £850pm. Leaves her with no much else left over after the rest of the bills are paid.

Hardly anyone has to live in London. Most people can live outside London, if they choose to

London is not the only place in england with London prices. There isn't anywhere in the whole region where I live (NOT london) that you'ld call cheap (don't get me wrong, there are shit-holes, but they're expensive shit-holes!)

But London is our capital and as such does need public service workers like nurses!

Love the one of her jobs is with BUPA op, my mum was in a BUPA home sadly they are not as ' posh' as folks imagine and the staff are on barely minimum wage. When they found out I worked in a non BUPA home they were keen to know the wages because there's were so poor.

Maybe your friend doesn't need to spend £850 a month on rent. Maybe she could spend £595 a month?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-66087434.html

Goodness, it's lucky we do all live in different places though isn't it? Otherwise all these cheap places would suddenly be expensive because we'd all flood there.

Is namechanger22 the OP?

nakedscientist - that makes no sense at all. I'm not the OP.