I sense some lefty bashing coming this way...
EDIT: Is that £30,000 take home?
Quote by Kaznkev
I watched both nights (last night and tonight) and on the whole found it a very good programme...
The mother in question said she blamed her husband for them having so many kids
Perhaps she should have kept her legs closed
The reformed criminal living in Wolverhampton said he gets £114 per week out of which he pays £20 rent....
How the hell does he get that much ??......All I can get is £64 per week out of which I am expected to hand enough over to placate my mortgage lender....Then set about paying all the normal household bills and perhaps if there is any left feed myself AND keep enough back to get me to and from the countless interviews I am expected to attend to prove I'm not a career benefit recipient ....
Quote by northwest-cpl
What is the breakdown of the £30,000? How is it made up? Is it really £30,000, I didn't see the programme but would be interested to see what benefits are actually being claimed.
Quote by Kaznkev
What is the breakdown of the £30,000? How is it made up? Is it really £30,000, I didn't see the programme but would be interested to see what benefits are actually being claimed.
Quote by Steve
What is the breakdown of the £30,000? How is it made up? Is it really £30,000, I didn't see the programme but would be interested to see what benefits are actually being claimed.
Quote by Steve
I watched both nights (last night and tonight) and on the whole found it a very good programme...
The mother in question said she blamed her husband for them having so many kids
Perhaps she should have kept her legs closed
The reformed criminal living in Wolverhampton said he gets £114 per week out of which he pays £20 rent....
How the hell does he get that much ??......All I can get is £64 per week out of which I am expected to hand enough over to placate my mortgage lender....Then set about paying all the normal household bills and perhaps if there is any left feed myself AND keep enough back to get me to and from the countless interviews I am expected to attend to prove I'm not a career benefit recipient ....
Quote by Ms_Whips
i'm watching the jobless celeb program where there is a couple with five kids, one on the way and living in a six bedroomed house. they get just short of £30,000 a year!
although the dad is saying that he wished he could get a job, why the hell would he with that coming in? he's not had a job for 7 years and then not a job that would pay that sort of money.
£30,000 a year ffs!! i doubt that there is any job he could get that would bring in that sort of money.
whips
Quote by Ms_Whips
I watched both nights (last night and tonight) and on the whole found it a very good programme...
The mother in question said she blamed her husband for them having so many kids
Perhaps she should have kept her legs closed
The reformed criminal living in Wolverhampton said he gets £114 per week out of which he pays £20 rent....
How the hell does he get that much ??......All I can get is £64 per week out of which I am expected to hand enough over to placate my mortgage lender....Then set about paying all the normal household bills and perhaps if there is any left feed myself AND keep enough back to get me to and from the countless interviews I am expected to attend to prove I'm not a career benefit recipient ....
Quote by awayman
I watched both nights (last night and tonight) and on the whole found it a very good programme...
The mother in question said she blamed her husband for them having so many kids
Perhaps she should have kept her legs closed
The reformed criminal living in Wolverhampton said he gets £114 per week out of which he pays £20 rent....
How the hell does he get that much ??......All I can get is £64 per week out of which I am expected to hand enough over to placate my mortgage lender....Then set about paying all the normal household bills and perhaps if there is any left feed myself AND keep enough back to get me to and from the countless interviews I am expected to attend to prove I'm not a career benefit recipient ....
Quote by awayman
One of the problems with that process of totting up the amount they have coming in is the amount of it going straight back out again. £700 per month was housing benefit. If there was a council house for them to live in then, at typical council house rents, it would have been half that. So half the money we pay for their housing is going to make some scabby buy to let landlord rich. If that's a sensible use of public money I'm a Dutchman.
Quote by flower411
How much would he have to earn for tax credits or other benefits to make up the shortfall ?
Quote by Kaznkev
Ok I'm on benefits cos I'm a full time career to my disabled some, I get a week after paying out all my bills, including £25 a week buses fares to get the kids to school I have £47 left a week to feed all 3 of us. So thats £10, a year I get for the 3 of us. On top of that theres £1200 in council tax and £7,800 rent I get paid which in total is a year I cost the government.
Up until my disabled son was born 5 years ago I worked full time, I wish I could work now, but unfortunately, every interview I have had the companies have said the same sorry but we cant afford for you to take time off when your son is ill so we are unable to offer you the job.
Also it makes me mad that if there was council housing available the rent would only be around £260 a month and yet theres a 12 year waiting list in my area to even be considered for a council place.
If I could get back into my old job and find a council place to live in I would be able to afford to get in a live in nanny to look after my son when he was ill (and also look after my daughter before and after school) so that I was able to work, but until the council sort out the shortage of housing there is no way I will be able to work.
Quote by kentswingers777
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I do not know the figures of people that did buy, but it was a heck of a lot of people.
People who would otherwise have never got onto the housing ladder, and would forever have been stuck in council accommodation. Cannot understand anything other than positives there.
Of course those who did not have that opportunity may well be miffed, but my parents and four other people I personally know, did buy their own homes. The right to buy scheme was in my opinion a fantastic opportunity for so many people, to be able to buy their own home.
Good one Maggs for that one I say....unless of course someone is miffed?
Sorry if off topic.
Quote by foxylady2209
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I do not know the figures of people that did buy, but it was a heck of a lot of people.
People who would otherwise have never got onto the housing ladder, and would forever have been stuck in council accommodation. Cannot understand anything other than positives there.
Of course those who did not have that opportunity may well be miffed, but my parents and four other people I personally know, did buy their own homes. The right to buy scheme was in my opinion a fantastic opportunity for so many people, to be able to buy their own home.
Good one Maggs for that one I say....unless of course someone is miffed?
Sorry if off topic.
Quote by flower411
mmmm yes,the sell off of the housing stock and the ban on allowing the money from the sales to be reinvested in new stock,whose bright idea was that again?
And just think if the right to buy hadnt been touted as the ultimate programme in social mobility we may never have had the bubble in house prices and the attendant problems that has caused
Quote by kentswingers777
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I do not know the figures of people that did buy, but it was a heck of a lot of people.
People who would otherwise have never got onto the housing ladder, and would forever have been stuck in council accommodation. Cannot understand anything other than positives there.
Of course those who did not have that opportunity may well be miffed, but my parents and four other people I personally know, did buy their own homes. The right to buy scheme was in my opinion a fantastic opportunity for so many people, to be able to buy their own home.
Good one Maggs for that one I say....unless of course someone is miffed?
Sorry if off topic.
Quote by kentswingers777
mmmm yes,the sell off of the housing stock and the ban on allowing the money from the sales to be reinvested in new stock,whose bright idea was that again?
And just think if the right to buy hadnt been touted as the ultimate programme in social mobility we may never have had the bubble in house prices and the attendant problems that has caused
Quote by awayman
If you follow the logic of that, why did the poll tax only start at the age of 18? Kids use loads of services, and those disposable nappies take loads of cleaning up - so why wasn;t there a surcharge for children? Answer? Because it was a lie, a cynical, made up on the fly lie intended to change the shape of society by forcing people off the voters roll, creating an underclasss who wouldn't exist for political purposes.
Quote by flower411
If you follow the logic of that, why did the poll tax only start at the age of 18? Kids use loads of services, and those disposable nappies take loads of cleaning up - so why wasn;t there a surcharge for children? Answer? Because it was a lie, a cynical, made up on the fly lie intended to change the shape of society by forcing people off the voters roll, creating an underclasss who wouldn't exist for political purposes.
Quote by foxylady2209
If you follow the logic of that, why did the poll tax only start at the age of 18? Kids use loads of services, and those disposable nappies take loads of cleaning up - so why wasn;t there a surcharge for children? Answer? Because it was a lie, a cynical, made up on the fly lie intended to change the shape of society by forcing people off the voters roll, creating an underclasss who wouldn't exist for political purposes.
Quote by soul-girl
Am I the only person that agreed with poll tax tax. I lived in a studio appartment which I had a mortgage for and shared it with a boyfriend and both of us paid, yet my friend who lived at home with his brother and mom and dad in a council house refused to pay it. They all worked full time, they used the same services as me yet they paid far less than me in rent than I did in mortgage.
Quote by Kaznkev
I watched both nights (last night and tonight) and on the whole found it a very good programme...
The mother in question said she blamed her husband for them having so many kids
Perhaps she should have kept her legs closed
The reformed criminal living in Wolverhampton said he gets £114 per week out of which he pays £20 rent....
How the hell does he get that much ??......All I can get is £64 per week out of which I am expected to hand enough over to placate my mortgage lender....Then set about paying all the normal household bills and perhaps if there is any left feed myself AND keep enough back to get me to and from the countless interviews I am expected to attend to prove I'm not a career benefit recipient ....