This MP should be sacked

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Disgusting comments. He should be sacked.

Tax credits were increased by £1045

www.gov.uk/government/news/increase-to-working-tax-credits-what-this-means

There is a 30-hour element to tax credits of £825

During the past summer holiday supermarket vouchers were made available. And so were food parcels, by the way they weren't all Sainsbury's vouchers so you got that wrong as well. There would have been uproar from other supermarkets if that was the case and I can't imagine why my local Co-op and Iceland had signs up about them if they were for Sainsburys.

Acerred Tax credits weren't increased. My income dropped by 50% and my tax credits went down by £30 a week. I work for over the 21 required hours. That's a massive drop, have you managed OK? Obviously you don't have to say if it is something you want to keep private. I hope you have managed though, good luck.

Mine weren't, as I said they went down.

@ancientgran

Acerred Tax credits weren't increased. My income dropped by 50% and my tax credits went down by £30 a week. I work for over the 21 required hours. That's a massive drop, have you managed OK? Obviously you don't have to say if it is something you want to keep private. I hope you have managed though, good luck.

I'm good at extreme budgeting. A PP said about the 30 hours, it's 21 if you are a lone parent. I took on a 2nd job to help.

Acerred you must have had to budget hard to make that up. I've got a niece who is a lone parent and she seems to cope but I think she probably has a tough time, ex went abroad and she doesn't get anything from him. I always send her some cash for Christmas as it must be a tough time for lone parents, maybe I should review what I send. She's lost her 2nd job because of Covid.

@StandWitch

Tax credits were increased by £1045

www.gov.uk/government/news/increase-to-working-tax-credits-what-this-means

There is a 30-hour element to tax credits of £825

Yeah, you forgot to add “temporarily”

“... plans to reduce the headline generosity of benefits by £1,040 for millions of households in April 2021”
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/death-by-1000-cuts/

A PP said about the 30 hours, it's 21 if you are a lone parent. I took on a 2nd job to help.

That's not correct. For a joint tax credit claim there must be 24 hours work done between the claimants. For a lone parent it's 16 hours.

The 30 hours is something else, this is a bonus introduced in about 1998 to encourage people to do more hours. Essentially tax credits are withdrawn at 41%, on top of NI & tax, which can work out as a marginal rate of about 73% for some people, but if you work 30 hours, then a £825 bonus is paid, which offsets some of that.

For Universal Credit you are expected to work 25 hours per week if your child is 5-12, and 35 hours per week if your child is 13 or over. These aren't hard limits in that you are supposed to 'look for work'.

There is no 30 hour element for UC because the government's idea with Universal Credit is that you should work more hours whether it's financially worthwhile or not.

The UC withdrawal rate is post-tax, and is 63%, which given a legal minimum 5% pension contribution, works out at (1-5%)-((((1-5%)(1-20%))-(12%))(1-63%)) = 71.32% 'tax', compared to tax credits which are (1-5%)-((((1-5%)*(1-20%-42%))-(12%))) = 70.9%, on income over the personal allowance of £12,500

35 hours per week if your child is 13 or over. These aren't hard limits in that you are supposed to 'look for work'.

My mistake, I thought it was 21 hours.

What do they do if your employer can't offer you 35 hours? Say for example you work for an employer from 9am-12 noon daily and then again from 3pm-6pm so can't fit another job in with your split hifts.

Well at the moment it's suspended during covid, but essentially you are supposed to spend 35 hours a week either working or looking for work or be sanctioned.

So if you had 9-12 and 3-6 then I think they'd expect you to find a job that provided 35 hours instead.

I imagine that could be the subject of discussion.

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/679371/response/1622379/attach/4/Expected%20hours.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1

@Enterthewolves

The £600m they keep trumpeting about was given to authorities in June and was for community support across all groups - in my city a significant proportion was used for food for older people, people with disabilities & health needs and children. Some of it was used to house homeless people, to support additional support in the absence of day centres/respite. There isn’t any left

Yes and comes after a decade of cuts to local authority budgets. Decimated them in many cases.

@ViciousJackdaw

@Marieg10 Teachers, Head teachers and lecturers are all exempt from political restrictions and will not be regarded as holding “politically restricted posts” whatever their role or remuneration level. However I also don’t see what is partisan about reporting someone’s words - Ben Bradley said it in writing - if he doesn’t like it being reported he should have thought before he typed.

Perhaps lol, at the school code of conduct. I don't know if one that doesn't restrict school staff from making comments such as this when speaking on behalf of the school. Making pronouncements at a school staff union meeting may be different.

I am also a school governor and the template code of conduct for all schools in our area makes this clear. If the head of our school either published or sanctioned the publication of this I would insist on a disciplinary investigation.

As schools we should be focussed on educating the kids and helping in whatever way is reasonable and not publishing shit such as this that all it does it spark a conflict between schools and parents....last thing we need in such fractured times

ben bradley should really be sacked full stop he is nothing but doing nothing about with problems at all he think he does but he doesn't and anyways he should not be telling people what to do its not his choice its ours and i think we need to oust him out compleatly