To want the Government to do more about the Cost of Living crisis?

[user365241987]

I just cannot see what the Government is doing to support the insane rise in CoL. Our income is higher than it has ever beautiful we just scrape by every month. It's so depressing. Don't qualify for any benefits. So tired of it. I have written to my MP. I can't understand why they don't increase the lowest tax threshold as that would at least help everyone at the lower end. I don't see any improvement ahead.

So there’s property tax brackets and then different councils have an added percentage on top. Mine is 428 plus a 15% county charge on top.
local property tax pays for
local roads and street maintenance
public lighting
parks and playgrounds
libraries
fire and emergency services
housing and community services
street cleaning / environmental services
local amenities and infrastructure

We pay for our own waste/recycling- I pay a company 25 per month.

Social care services are funded through Income tax, VAT, corporation tax and other state revenues fund.

And many older ones get way more. My 88 year old dad gets significantly more due to ? Serps.
Many on less than new state pension will likely be topped up by pension credit unless they also have significant savings. this will mean all rent paid, council tax paid, dental costs paid etc also. The ones qualifying for pension credit can end up way better off than those just on new state pension.

Not required to seek work in UC terms means people who:
Have been assessed as having limited capability for work and work-related activity (LCWRA) because of a serious illness or disability.
Are the main carer of a child under 1 year old.
Are pregnant and due to give birth within 11 weeks.
Are caring full-time for a severely disabled person and receive, or are entitled to, Carer’s Allowance or the carer element of Universal Credit.
Are in full-time education in certain circumstances, for example some students with children or disabilities, or under-21s without parental support.
Are over State Pension age but still part of a Universal Credit couple claim.

I live in a deprived area and I really don’t see a cost of living crisis around here. Everywhere is rammed at the weekend

If my estate was going to the treasury rather than my children, I would sell my house move to a smaller property and spend the rest and give my children as much as possible. I've paid enough tax throughout my life and me and my husband have worked hard for what we have.

Where is the incentive to work hard if you can't pass your wealth on to your children? We might as well all give up work.

Part of the problem with the LCWRA is that people are not re-assessed enough. There are huge backlogs with people years overdue for re-assessment and even when people report an improvement in their condition it still takes ages to get re-assessed. The whole system is a mess which is why they are proposing in the future to link the LCWRA element with PIP so that only one assessment is required.

Try telling these facts to pensioners on Facebook and see the abuse you get.

We can no longer merely accept people self reporting as too anxious to leave the house and so on.

Selling your house and moving to a smaller property frees up a family sized house - win!

There’s more people taking out of the system than paying into it in the form of income tax at the moment. That’s a huge problem.

No one self reports anxiety and is given UC! It is a way more rigorous process than that!

I would say a lot of older people do this already anyway.

I know. But I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the conditions causing a rise in UC are all ones with zero pathology

Why on earth do people think the government should bail them out? In the 70s we had 3 day weeks to save energy. People had to claim basic unemployment benefit for the other two days. I remember doing homework by candlelight, I kid you not.

People rely on benefits to pay extortionate private rents.

Stiop putting taxes up and crippling businessses.

Water bills don't get much mention but they are horrific as well.
There is so much more they could do

The rents aren’t extortionate in themselves. The majority of landlords have 1 property, and I imagine a fair chunk are mortgaged, and like anyone else their mortgage repayments will be very high.

The problem is too many people.

No I do not want the government to help with the COL crisis, I want our generation and our parents generation to cut our cloth accordingly and cut back. We are the very definition of the squeezed middle so I am not without sympathy but I absolutely do not want this country mortgaged anymore against our kids generation who will have to pick up the pieces and live with god knows what just so we can keep up our standard of living.

National debt is about 95% of our gdp with interest payments one of the largest sources of government spending. What would you like the government to do?

https://taxjustice.uk/blog/the-rich-are-getting-richer-from-the-war-on-iran/

we need a windfall tax to start with

I absolutely do not want this country mortgaged anymore against our kids generation who will have to pick up the pieces and live with god knows what just so we can keep up our standard of living.

We have fucked them over

Maybe they need to increase the threshold for UC. We are on fairly low income and we don't qualify aside from child benefit. This would definitely help people in our bracket.

My water bill has increased by over 30% and the subsidy we used to receive from the govt (south west water) has been removed. Years of under investment mean there are huge problems and consumers are paying the price. Water should never have been privatised.

I have absolutely no issue with people who claim benefits, the OP is talking about people who work!