You haven't worked that out right.
You take 18400/52/40 and you get the hourly rate.....£8.84.
Families need £36,800 to live acceptably.....
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You haven't worked that out right.
You take 18400/52/40 and you get the hourly rate.....£8.84.
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You guys are both working out one parent, yes?
Just one earner?
If both were working, at minimum wage, they'd be well above this 'minimum acceptable amount'.
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its 1 in 10 actually.
their were measures well into place before this donation - this is simply the icing on the cake and will ensure that agreements put in place over OFFA are maintained even if the government do a U - turn on their university tuition principles.
I have 11k and do pretty well and own my own home and have lots of tech (tv, projector, console, HD TV, laptop etc. Anything above 20 seems amazing to me!! I'd feel like a millionaire.
Not sure if serious.
How would you be able to afford your own home and so much tech on £900 a month without significant subsidizing? 11k is close to poverty line.
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I have 11k and do pretty well and own my own home and have lots of tech (tv, projector, console, HD TV, laptop etc. Anything above 20 seems amazing to me!! I'd feel like a millionaire.
wow! well done i guess
i couldnt bring up my son, pay mortgage and fuel and food and bills on that. not a chance.
for a single guy its maybe doable (do you own a house outright? small mortgage?)
We are refering to the minimum income for a couple with children as set out in the OP.
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I have 11k and do pretty well and own my own home and have lots of tech (tv, projector, console, HD TV, laptop etc. Anything above 20 seems amazing to me!! I'd feel like a millionaire.
Not sure if serious.
How would you be able to afford your own home and so much tech on £900 a month without significant subsidizing? 11k is close to poverty line.
Hostile, how do you manage that? £11k barely covers my standard bills, either you were lucky and got you house very very cheap, or something doesn't add up
Hostile, how do you manage that? £11k barely covers my standard bills, either you were lucky and got you house very very cheap, or something doesn't add up
What do you do for work? Is there no chance of doing some additional training and changing careers?
never seemed to matter what I have earned over the years I am always equally skint at end of month
Too much month left and the end of the money?
Have to say I feel that same. How you can sit on your unemployed ass for years on end without a job is literally something I cannot understand. ANYONE can find a job.
Having kids whilst being unemployed is just ridiculous. Throw them the barest amount of pennies which will hopefully force the thick, ignorant parents to do something for themselves for a change and not wait for the state to wipe their dirty little bums for them time and time again. The sense of entitlement these people have is just .... wow.
I'm sorry but we have enough parasites that leech and mooch from working people. It has to stop somewhere.
Naturally the above doesn't go for people who lost their jobs and are trying to find another one, but the insects that make it a lifestyle choice.
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The problem with that salary is that anything can happen and you won't have the funds to support yourself (taking time off work, finding a new job etc).
Having a job to cover your outgoings is one thing, but earning enough for security is another.
Oh my god thats terri- oh wait its fake poverty not real poverty, I was worried for a second.
In this country poverty is only having one car, a TV under 42", less than three games consoles and only being able to eat out once a week rofl.
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work in pc sales/repair. am looking into doing a law or accountancy course, but obviously these cost money and take time to do. as you can see, money isn't something I am blessed with, so it makes it difficult to think about doing anything different.
this is it. its all well and good saying £18k is the ideal wage to be on. but in truth, I get NO housing benefit as apparently anyone under 35 that is single should live in shared housing (I have 2 kids that stay with me half the week, how is renting a tiny room in a shared house a safe or happy environment for them?) as the government upped it from 25 in January. I also got a yearly working tax credit payment of just under £40 to top my wages up to the magic (I think £13k) figure the government deem single people can live on. that's around £5k short of what is deemed 'acceptable',
huge difference in my opinion.
really? I would like to see you manage to stretch my income and eat out, let alone run a car.
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Bar job or supermarket work as a second job for the evening? Obviously it would be hellishly hard, but a hundred quid a week extra would probably be doable.
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2 jobs, high tax. plus I would be doing distance learning in the evenings, and my days off I spend with my kids. its hard when I see their mum doing very little in the way of work (she is self employed but doesn't take a wage) getting hand outs left right and centre to be able to go abroad, run a car, live in a nice area.........she only has them half the friggin week, so why does she get everything? the system is flawed on so many levels.
I could easily mate.
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so you could easily feed/cloth yourself, eat out and run a car for £140 a month? plus have these luxuries of 3 games consoles and buying games for them? seriously?
Well as you earn slightly more than me in the first place, yes.