If the Tories come into power, tax credits could be axed :-O

[GlastonburyGoddess]

In the news today. Im appalled. Talking about how tax credits create a demotivation to earn more etc etc

Im disgusted, no mention of if it would be replaced with something else.

we both work, we get our wages at the end of the month and within 3 days its gone on bils, we then live day to day off the tax credits. we'd be f**d hope they dont end up in power....

Glad you got the help you needed....

like they say, it's not where you start it's where you finish

I always finish on top.....

Iykwim

Are the Tories proposing the tax credit threshold should be £50,000 per household or per person?

Like I said I used to think like that, I was the golden girl that everyone wanted to be around. But illness does not care about status, house size, education.

For you it does seem to be more than just where you finish, you seem very quick to dismiss those who at any time needed help and support.

Ego, what type of work do you do?

My money is on nursing or maybe some kind of counsellor.

motivational coach

professional troll

lol expat...jealousy is such a wasted emotion..

That's why I never bother with it, Ego. Or trolling, either.

lol expat, somehow TheEgo I think we are amused rather than jealous.

expat...why are you calling me a troll.?

is it because you know my usual posting name or because i'm rich..?

Have I got the facts right? families who earn more than 50k per year may lose their tax credit of £10 per week? we earn around 40k a year and have 3dc's. The £40 per month that we get in FTC comes in handy but I wont be losing sleep over it.

Because you're acting like one, Ego.

I receive the basic tax credit (hadn't claimed before as was scared of getting it mixed up overpaid) but in my case I do need every penny.

Paying rent of well over £1000 (for a tiny house - yes it's the market rate around here) per month, living in the South East and single parent there isn't any money spare.

And as far as I'm concerned if the Tories do get in it will be the tip of the iceberg.

Have been subjected to them before and I despise everything they stand for.

I have also heard that they will be means testing the Freedom Card - free travel for over 60s.

'Sorry, on my phone, posts might be hard to understand, I'm not a Tory, but I read the DM. I don't expect any government to support me and my dc, Gordon brown is not the father of my kids. I left school with zero education, I am academically useless,... however, I live in a pretty smart area of London, my DC have everything, my house is worth half a million, if I can do it anyone can.

I have never had a penny in benefits. '

Well ain't you the lucky one. We didn't either until number 4 got brain damaged. Could happen to anyone. Even smug daily Mail readers.

But they are talking about people earning over 50k, so people on low incomes and with disabled children etc will not be affected. I am not a tory, but I have never really understood high earners receiving CTC or family allowance for that matter.

'If the Tories come to power ( and it's when not if) they will deffo cut benefits, so anyone relying on them......

good luck
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It's not nuice to wish that on people relying on benefits esp. as many are children or elderly, or otherwise needy. I take the point of Squish that she didn't include such people (I always make a point of reminding people about us becuase if I don't, people will forget us)- however I have a funny feeling TheEgo doesn't give a flying fuck about people like me.

And yeah, what Riven said. I ahve been on CA for a flat 13 months; until then I either worked or studied, Dh worked apart from a very few very short times when he was sick of laid off........ the last year has thrown us and me massively and even more when DH was made redundant, in the past we've always just moved to be nearer work or whatever but when you rely on special needs school provision, or your child needs 24/7 supervision it just is too bloody much. I'm trying but the jobs I can do are so few and far between and desired by many a SAHM after some pin money (reflecting the area we live in) and sometimes it makes you want to cry and give up.

peachy, no government has a bottomless pit of money to make everyones life fantastic...you have to except that.

Accept, yes?

I know that, I also know that I move in a world where most people I meet are lumbered with a sit. they cannot change; and yes I do think carers, disabled etc etc etc should be priorities above certain otehr things, esp. wars that the majority of people don't even seem to understand.

And I also- through professional experience- know that there are ways of getting people into work, such as mentor schems,and that both of the very successful ones I have worked on were pulled by councils for fundingr easons so forgive me but I am very cynical of the sod em all approach when there are ways to actually solve the problem

If OTOH you mean I must accept a life of crap being on benefits becuase of a lack of Government money, I don't think I should actually, I think if I have to go back to work FT and force the LEA legally into a boarding placement for ds1 it will cost them far far more overall. And that would be my only alterbative, as with many other carers. Unlike many other groups, we save the Gvernment money every second of the day.

Carers Allowance isn't really a benefit as such. Its 17p an hour to stop us putting our children in care which will cost the taxpayer a darn sight more.
Thank goodness for Carers. Unpaid and stressed.

And bitten, unconscious,depressed, suicidal, alone, frustrated, crying or just neurotic depending on which carer you get and on which day

Absolutely agree with Ego. The government does not have a bottomless pit of money to bail out banks and the financial capitalists who are making a profit out of the decline of the economy

we are fighting a war to protect this country from terrorism..

and i'm sorry, but some people do have to accept a life of crap..