To be cheesed off with Universal Credit entry fees?

[MaturingCheeseball]

I know it’s been done before, but…

I thought I’d like to visit Chatsworth House with (teenage) dd. The cost is £33 each PLUS parking at £7.50. So £73.50.

Then I saw the universal credit/pension credit/pip etc price. THREE POUNDS. And free parking! So £6.00 for two adults (age 17+).

I do not have 12 times as much money as someone on these benefits. I doubt many people do. I’m not begrudging the disadvantaged a day out, but come on! The price differential is ludicrous.

When I saw the £73 price I just decided we couldn’t go, and so be it. But upon seeing the potential for a £6 entry, it made me feel mugged off.

I am possibly being really stupid, but I don’t understand? If that poster is working 42hrs per week, on NMW, her take home would be £1900. Genuinely, what have I missed?

Anyone who thinks the comment I said was disgusting is funny is ignorant. Autism is a disability. Autistic doesn’t need ‘ ‘ around it. Carers doesn’t either. Unpaid carers have a heavy burden. Carer’s allowance is a pittance. Circumstances change. There can be many reasons for multiple DC. Not all SEN is known about when DC are conceived.

No 42 hours minus 5 hour lunch breaks which aren't paid so 37 hours of actual pay. I earned over nmw and was salaried. It was almost 1900 before tax not after. This was only 2 years ago so not ages.

Move on. I’m talking about the people taking the piss.

No it isn't and thankfully has been deleted.

Right, so you’re not actually working 42 hrs per week? Even on 37 hrs you’d take home £1770?

I did move on. To report it, hence why it was deleted.

Would you swap lives with someone on UC? If not, be thankful you don’t qualify for these ‘perks’. Seriously. 🙄

That’s called working 37 hours not 42, you don’t include your unpaid lunch break.

What a vile comment.

I think you need to reframe this, you are teaching your kids the power of hard work, being brave enough to hustle and deliver a life for you all. All your exes ex partners teenager is learning is how to be a future benefit claimant. What a shitty grim future. That’s basically the issue we have, children need role models - something they can aspire to.

Thankfully your pp has been deleted. Another post from you showing a lack of understanding. Autism is a disability. There is no apparent about it. If their DC are getting DLA, then there’s no apparent about it. They have provided evidence their DC are eligible. It isn’t for you to say they aren’t.

We could encourage mothers to look and continue with skilled careers. Well paying work.

I am on UC and also receive carers allowance. I receive about £850 a month. I gave up a very good job when I take-home pay was nearly 10 times this amount each month in order to look after my mother who has dementia

Mum can’t go into a care home because most care homes will not accept dementia patients – they’re too difficult to look after and eat into the profits generated by these private organisations.

I’m not sure what the original poster would like me to do. Should I go back to work if I do mum will probably end up dead. If she’s left alone for any amount of time she does things like turn on the gas hob, unlit, and then leave it. She is totally oblivious to the buildup of gas in the house. She’s done other dangerous things like put stacks of tea towels over naked flames which have caught fire and become totally oblivious to it.

Perhaps the easiest answer is from my mother to die and that way I can go back to work and not sponge off the state. Would the OP like to tell me how she proposes to kill my mother off?

I hear your point, but these high prices existed long before UC did. Full price ticket payers are not subsiding UC claimants.

Hard core agree. Kids who observe parents working hard are more likely to follow in their footsteps. The biggest indicator of a child’s future job is what their parents do/did, meaning families working few hours in minimum wage jobs isn’t ideal for the tax payer or the child.

You will likely get the "I wasn't talking about people like you" response from some, which is what I hate, because by then all disabled people/carers have been lumped together and slated.
As for what you should do, you are obviously doing what is best for your Mum selflessly and with love, so the opinions of those who are not walking in your shoes are irrelevant and worthless x

What threshold? If he earns enough then she wouldn’t be entitled to UC would she? Genuine question btw. I’m a SAHM, both kids at school. Husband earns less than £50k and I was told I’m not entitled to anything unless I want to do the whole job searching 30 hours/courses thing.

I'm really, really happy to pay full price. In return can someone take my disability? I should warn you of the downsides, to be transparent. While you DO get to beat the queues at airports and bag cut-price tickets to something that you are too ill to attend, you will also take holidays in intensive care, have multiple hospital appointments, undergo really serious surgery, take a litany of medications and will be virtually housebound by your 30s. But think of the discounts!

Wouldnt it be amazing also if @giggidygiggidygiggidy also had the time
energy
and money aswel to be able to treat her kids to these sort of places too

This is such a rubbish argument. It's the same as telling people that they should be grateful that they pay extortionate levels of tax as at least they earn enough to pay the tax in the first place.

Being on UC facilitates an easier life for many who are unemployed or underemployed. They often have a higher standard of living than many that work FT when you account for everything that the state funds like social housing, free prescriptions and even discounted phone plans. This is especially true if you claim disability benefits too and can 'benefit stack'. So actually many people would and are choosing a lifestyle that's funded by the state. Look at the number of NEETs claiming benefits for ill health. This should be setting alarm bells off for all of us.

I think from the wording, that poster is referring to some point in the past. She said she "was" working those hours, she "did" earn that much, her rent "at the time" was £800pcm. I haven't checked but I would imagine £1600 would have been the take home probably about 3 years ago if you worked full time on NMW.

What did that poster say? Wondering if it was aimed at me.

Ah ok, thank you. For what it’s worth, I don’t think it’s enough to live on, 3 years ago, or now.