House of Lords blocking 'commons' bill

You didn't misled me, if i had £35,000 per year i would be rich, i live on alots less than £35.000, then with a wage of £35,000 i could buy a newer car( which will stop people who say things like "your're not still driving that thing are you) a new computer,ipad,smart phone and a 50inch tv which i can't aford at the moment

 

Anyone think that tax credits are propping up businesses who get away with paying low wages, because they know their workers will get their money made up.

I've actually worked with people who have turned down overtime because they will lose handouts if their wages go above a certain level, these are people doing a full time job on the same hourly rate as me.
Ok, I dont have any kids to support but why should my taxes be higher than theirs, because in effect that is what is happening.
If you cant afford the kids, or quite often these days, two separate families, then tie a knot in it.

 

@pete i have worked with ladies like that.They do all the overtime that is going and rake in the money but when it came to the time of showing the benefit people their wage slips to get the credits because they are on low wages they would tell the boss that they couldn't do any extra work so there was me having to work all the overtime I could to give us extra income to keep the roof over our heads and help pay the bills and they were taking the pxxs and getting extra for doing sod all.It used to make me so

As we have no kids we have never ever got any tax or child benefits as they used to call it so like you we have worked all our lives to keep others

 

It just disgusts me that people talk about " poverty"," living wage " etc and they're earning more in one day than I get for a whole week.

I do not believe that food banks are needed in this day and age in this country in the way they are being hyped. I know there are people who need them but I reckon it is a very small percentage/minority of those who actually use them.

How many people are claiming they are poverty stricken and yet will have mobile phones, tablets, computers, tv's etc, and of those how many smoke, drink, use cannabis or whatever.

I have worked and paid taxes all my life and now because I'm incapable of work I'm treated like ****.

When you go for a job you are told the rates of pay, if it's not enough to keep you in the lifestyle you are used to/require then look for something else DON'T rely on government handouts to keep you.

 

We have people living in council houses with two new BMWs parked outside.
Now thats what I call poverty.

 

Did your husband not get married mans tax allowance then?

Child benefit and tax credits are two different things/benefits/entitlements.
Child "benefit" was formally known as "family allowance".
While everyone who has a child may be entitled to child benefit, not all people with children would be entitled to tax credits.
To qualify for tax credits, my understanding is, they would not only need to have a child/children, but would also need to a) be employed and b) fall below a certain income threshold.

 

Yes there are, but there must be a way of weeding out those that dont need it.

 

@ARMANDII
I am not sure what you do not agree with in my post, is it that Tax Credits require an overhaul?
that there are families out there who are living in near poverty? or that food banks are already at full stretch?
Families with 4 children can jointly earn £46k and still qualify for Tax Credits, I personally believe that this is an amount far in excess of what should be the maximum and is one reason why they should be overhauled.
If you do not agree that there are people, even working people, living in near poverty I can assure you that there are. I am a Parish Councillor in what is a fairly affluent village but we see examples of poverty amongst working families in our community every month.
Again, as a Parish Council, we get requests from the MDC to assist local food banks in as many ways as we can, by publicising their requests for donations, arranging local collections of tinned goods and by trying to raise funds.

 

Sadly the current younger generation think to keep churning out kids is the route to money.

I have no issue with help for the first two but after that the responsibility must lie with the parents not the tax payer.

We now live in society where wages are low. The minimum wage has become THE wage so many more become eligible for tax credits . Quite which government you blame for that I don't know.

The cuts will be delayed that's all. They were hoping to make the cuts before the so called minimum or living wage goes up. Now they will just Chang the timing.

We often say We never had these benefits which is true but we did have in most cases more and better jobs to choose from and better wages.

Well those of us past say 50.....