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Partner wants me to pay for his car when he’s working full time

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PinkBump2022 · 14/08/2022 14:19

So me and my partner both work. I have my own business and we use universal credit to top up. Before my partner went back to work after being on the sick we were just on universal credit and my business was just starting. We used the universal credit to pay for his car and I have always used my money to pay for my own car. We live together and have a child and another one due very soon. So now my partner is back at work full time earning £850 a week, he still wants me to use the universal credit to pay for his car, this goes in my bank to top up my wages and Iv been using it for our child’s needs, food, and buying baby things. So now after giving him the money for his car (£420 a month finance) and £170 insurance, it’s joint insurance and it’s high because he got points for speeding twice in 1 year. I’m left with not enough to buy the bouncy chair, swing, or crib. However he’s got two accounts with a fair amount in each.

am I wrong for saying He should be paying for his car now he’s earning more than enough! We do drive each other’s cars and are on each other’s insurance. But I pay my own car and own insurance I’d never ask him to pay my insurance even though he drives my car all of the time, and I pay my own fiancé which is not even half of what his is! He knows we need this baby things and hasn’t even offered to buy anything and he knows our child still needs uniform and hasn’t offered to buy these either, even when I said oh I don’t get paid again until a week before he goes to school and that’s leaving it a little late to get the rest of the uniform as it may be sold out then.
i don’t know if I’m just super hormonal or if he’s just being very greedy with his money!

OP posts:
Crumpleton · 14/08/2022 17:54

sst1234 · 14/08/2022 17:18

No wonder the public finances are in such a state. Is welfare is being handed out like this.

Government expenditure for benifits in 20/21 is around 212 billion pound....
That's some pot of money to find.
Many make it a life style choice, and yes we all know of someone milking the system.
Maybe the benifits system needs a big overhaul.

HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd · 14/08/2022 18:49

Crumpleton · 14/08/2022 17:54

Government expenditure for benifits in 20/21 is around 212 billion pound....
That's some pot of money to find.
Many make it a life style choice, and yes we all know of someone milking the system.
Maybe the benifits system needs a big overhaul.

Is everyone really about to get up in arms about the completely imaginary benefit claims of trolls? 🫤

NippyWoowoo · 14/08/2022 18:52

Loics · 14/08/2022 17:24

I wouldn't get too annoyed about this thread MNers, I think the OP has gone, um, back under her bridge. 🤭

By most of the threads on here, they seem to care more about being outraged at a non-existent event than engaging their minds in the slightest and think hmm...maybe not everything is as it seems

HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd · 14/08/2022 19:12

Crumpleton · 14/08/2022 17:54

Government expenditure for benifits in 20/21 is around 212 billion pound....
That's some pot of money to find.
Many make it a life style choice, and yes we all know of someone milking the system.
Maybe the benifits system needs a big overhaul.

BTW, more than half the annual figure is pensions and disability benefits, then another chunk in child benefit, but people love to quite the big headline figure as though it’s all going on stereotypical chav activities like tattoos and sky tv.

wherearebeefandonioncrisps · 14/08/2022 19:16

It's threads like these that make people vote Tory.

SizzlingAwayIntheHotSun · 14/08/2022 19:19

Weemummykay · 14/08/2022 16:43

@HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd he literally is only here for about 2hrs at nyt. Come straight from work, I usually make his dinner for him coming in then does bath n bed with our older son or keeps the younger one occupied while I do it. The gym he goes to is jst round the corner from my house so he goes there jst after 7 for an hour or so then comes back to give the wee one his last feed then goes bk home after that. Like I said previously tho the lady at the job centre knew of this and didny say anything about needing to do a joint claim so I will be looking in to this

You had children with a booty call 🙈, you live near his gym, how very convenient for him, pop the gym, get his rocks off go back home and carry on like nothing has happened. I'm just sad this is the standard of men women are willing to have children with, indeed he pops round for 2 hours a "nyt" urgh.

IncompleteSenten · 14/08/2022 19:23

wherearebeefandonioncrisps · 14/08/2022 19:16

It's threads like these that make people vote Tory.

It's threads like this that make some people think those on benefits are actually pulling this shit and living it up instead of understanding that most people on benefits are honest people in bad situations who are struggling and would dearly love to have a better paid job or have a job.

FakingMemories · 14/08/2022 19:24

PinkBump2022 · 14/08/2022 14:23

@1FootInTheRave I have no idea our rent is high because we have an adapted home because I have a disabled child….. my partner has a disability which effects him working. So we don’t get much. But that wasn’t my question at all

There are people without disabilities who don’t earn £850 a week. It doesn’t sound like his disability has hindered his earning potential much.

Having “my money” and “his money”, “my car” and “his car” isn’t a partnership. It’s a flat mate that you’re making babies with.

BigChesterDraws · 14/08/2022 19:33

I’m going to assume this thread is as equally fake as all the OP’s previous threads.

MzHz · 14/08/2022 19:54

You can’t afford a car that costs £600 pm before you turn the key.

tell your dp it needs to go, he buys a cheap second hand car and pays for it himself.

if you’re on UC it’s not to pay off a huge car loan!

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