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so child /tax benefit goes up by £2 a week but think how much food has gone up by more than that a week to feed the children.
My council tax has gone up by £5 a month dont get any benefit on that, my water has gone up as has electricity and gas and the coal we use in the solid fuel heater which I dry the clothes in front of rather than put the tumble on in winter.

Dont get free school meals so that is £1.60 a day until they put it up again.

Then add to that that hubby is in a low tax band so will now be worse off with allowance cuts.

We dont smoke so wont go on them, hubby makes his own beer/wine so saves that way and only has a small glass a day if that.
Has his allotment so we have a lot of our own fruit and veg and I make jams to see me through winter.
We dont go out very often and I know the present I wanted for my birthday wont happen as hubbys work has now dried up and no use spending money to get into more debt.

In a lot of ways we are lucky as hubby is ex chef and I can tell him what little we have in fridge/cupboard and he can make a fantastic edible meal.

d xx

Psst, don't tell my 10 year old but his child benefit pays the water bill and part of the council tax. I would really love to be able to spend it on essentials like shoes for him - his are held together discreetly with gaffer tape (like those of many of his friends) - and also it would be a dream come true if he could actually go on those school trips which cost money.

Unfortunately, when it boils down to allocating resources, water is more essential to him than footwear. But, hey, it will soon be the season of elcheapo jelly shoes :o)

My mum was a single parent in the early 70's she worked 2 jobs paid the mortage and the hp on the car my dad took with him all she got was child benefit which in those days was only for the 1st child

But she had pride that she had done it all herself not relied on the state, I went back to work when my son was 6 months old i worked evenings and weekends so I could be at home with my son during the day.

If you are not physically or mentally disabled you should not get any benefits, why should i pay tax for people to sit at home when they are capable of working all this crap about they would only be a couple of pounds a week better off if they worked, its all down to self respect and being bothered to contruibute to society.


It is the working families that our worse off, my husband was made redunant some years ago and went to see if he could claim anything whilst looking for another because I worked they told him he was entitled to £28 per week even though he had paid tax and national insurance since he was 15 he told them to stick it where the sun don't shine, he worked painting fences until he could find another LGV job

sorry joan stand corrected she got it for my brother not me

lorraine