IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 12:53 - Nov 18 with 5017 views | BanksterDebtSlave | This is a total stitch up for the self employed...... https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/universal-credit/before-you-apply/sel "Example Sam is 22, single and works as a self employed painter, so he’d be expected to work 35 hours a week. This is used to calculate Sam’s expected monthly income, using the minimum wage for his age group of £7.05: 35 hours x £7.05 = £246.75 per week £246.75 x 52 weeks = £12,831 per year £12,831 ÷ 12 months = £1,069.25 per month The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will deduct a notional amount from Sam's expected monthly income for tax and national insurance. In this case, the amount is £70. This would make Sam's expected monthly income, after deductions, £999.25 per month. This amount is Sam’s ‘minimum income floor’ - every Universal Credit payment is based on the assumption that Sam makes £999.25 per month, even if Sam has a slow month and only makes £200. If Sam has a good month and earns £1,300, his Universal Credit will be based on his actual income rather than the minimum income floor." .....coming this summer to Suffolk coastal. | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 13:21 - Nov 18 with 4990 views | BackToRussia |
Was it discussed how the government is £500m in debt to said benefit claimants. | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 13:21 - Nov 18 by BackToRussia | Was it discussed how the government is £500m in debt to said benefit claimants. |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 13:44 - Nov 18 with 4961 views | lloydy84 | How much of this is down to IDS though? The welfare budget had to be reduced, no option about that, and Universal credit was part of that. But IDS constantly had his own ideas interfered with, all the flexibility taken away from him as the Tories raided the pot further and further. It his claimed that Universal credit was changed so much from what IDS envisaged initially, it became something else entirely and he walked away. | | | |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 14:07 - Nov 18 with 4932 views | BlueBadger |
As I understand it, the correct reply to this is 'balls'. | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 14:15 - Nov 18 with 4913 views | Bent_double | I have someone staying with me who put his application in for housing benefit on 1st June, GY of course being one of the first areas to roll-out UC. Almost 6 months later, he is still waiting for the first payment, having been told he does qualify and been given payment amounts and dates which have come and gone with nothing happening. | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 14:41 - Nov 18 with 4901 views | EastTownBlue | Very respectful of you to give IDS capital letters. | | | | Login to get fewer ads
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 14:51 - Nov 18 with 4893 views | blue_oyster | I wonder if anyone is asking the question why people who are working still need to claim benefits? | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 15:08 - Nov 18 with 4875 views | connorscontract |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 14:51 - Nov 18 by blue_oyster | I wonder if anyone is asking the question why people who are working still need to claim benefits? |
Have you heard of Zero Hour Contracts? 883,000 people on them in September. Employed, but no guarantee of work or pay. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-41317822 | | | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 08:48 - Nov 19 with 4786 views | blue_oyster |
Of course. What of it? | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 09:27 - Nov 19 with 4753 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 14:51 - Nov 18 by blue_oyster | I wonder if anyone is asking the question why people who are working still need to claim benefits? |
Once upon a time one person could earn enough to look after a family. After the 'feminist revolution' (?) two wages were required. After further years of 'progress' nurses and many others require two jobs to make ends meet.......Globalised free market capitalism, don't you just love it ? | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 23:42 - Nov 19 with 4672 views | blue_oyster |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 09:27 - Nov 19 by BanksterDebtSlave | Once upon a time one person could earn enough to look after a family. After the 'feminist revolution' (?) two wages were required. After further years of 'progress' nurses and many others require two jobs to make ends meet.......Globalised free market capitalism, don't you just love it ? |
Britain used to run the 'global economy' and we did very well thank you. Not the issue. | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:09 - Nov 20 with 4666 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 23:42 - Nov 19 by blue_oyster | Britain used to run the 'global economy' and we did very well thank you. Not the issue. |
If you say so ! | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:18 - Nov 20 with 4656 views | sparks |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 09:27 - Nov 19 by BanksterDebtSlave | Once upon a time one person could earn enough to look after a family. After the 'feminist revolution' (?) two wages were required. After further years of 'progress' nurses and many others require two jobs to make ends meet.......Globalised free market capitalism, don't you just love it ? |
Are you of the view that women approaching work on the same basis as men is a bad thing? | |
| The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
(Sir Terry Pratchett) | Poll: | Is Fred drunk this morning? |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:21 - Nov 20 with 4653 views | FrowsyArmLarry |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:18 - Nov 20 by sparks | Are you of the view that women approaching work on the same basis as men is a bad thing? |
The more money you pay people the more things cost | | | |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:32 - Nov 20 with 4646 views | jeera |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 14:51 - Nov 18 by blue_oyster | I wonder if anyone is asking the question why people who are working still need to claim benefits? |
Are you, and if so, what do you make of it? Or are you going to default to "Riddle me this" and attempt to tease the desired answer from everyone else? | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:35 - Nov 20 with 4641 views | WeWereZombies |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:21 - Nov 20 by FrowsyArmLarry | The more money you pay people the more things cost |
Unless you are paying them more because they are working more productively...are we talking about cost adjusted for inflation by the way? | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:38 - Nov 20 with 4639 views | FrowsyArmLarry |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:35 - Nov 20 by WeWereZombies | Unless you are paying them more because they are working more productively...are we talking about cost adjusted for inflation by the way? |
I’m talking about spiralling housing costs | | | |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:42 - Nov 20 with 4636 views | jeera |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:38 - Nov 20 by FrowsyArmLarry | I’m talking about spiralling housing costs |
True enough. Supply and demand though huh? If only the country's population could elect and pay well an entrusted bunch of smart people to manage on our behalf and ensure we could all afford to eat and keep a roof over our heads. Idealistic I know. | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:56 - Nov 20 with 4626 views | WeWereZombies |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:38 - Nov 20 by FrowsyArmLarry | I’m talking about spiralling housing costs |
Well why didn't you say that in the first place? | |
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 07:02 - Nov 20 with 4576 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:18 - Nov 20 by sparks | Are you of the view that women approaching work on the same basis as men is a bad thing? |
Was waiting for that, of course not ! I am saying that the market doesn't serve the interests of ordinary people though if (approximately) doubling the workforce leads to a halving of wages. [Post edited 20 Nov 2017 7:08]
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 07:23 - Nov 20 with 4561 views | blue_oyster |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 00:32 - Nov 20 by jeera | Are you, and if so, what do you make of it? Or are you going to default to "Riddle me this" and attempt to tease the desired answer from everyone else? |
Er yes, I raised the subject. Amazing that everyone seems to accepts that the state pays people to survive even if they have non-public sector jobs. Haven't seen it mentioned as a problem in many news stories. [Post edited 20 Nov 2017 7:24]
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IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 07:32 - Nov 20 with 4543 views | imsureazzure |
IDS's penny-pinching Universal Credit just got better on 14:51 - Nov 18 by blue_oyster | I wonder if anyone is asking the question why people who are working still need to claim benefits? |
Is it because mass immigration has had the effect of driving wages down below what is required to live? The same mass immigration fully endorsed by the trades unions. Also endorsed fully by the three main parties, but especially labour. | | | |
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