andrewh – Member
I was working part time through choice but why should I pay tax (it’s recent enough that I was still in the income tax threshold at that wage) when people can get more in benefits than I was earning? (not enough hours for me to get tax credit and no children)
I do sympathise a little, as I know it’s hard, I’ve been at the stage where I’ve just been buying food for the day because food for a week would cost too much. However, benefits need to be set a level where you can just about manage, as sounds like he can, just. It shouldn’t be a comfortable life, but enough to get you the very basics until you get another job (pensions are a different matter, I’m just refering to unemployment benefits etc). I realise this may make me unpopular amongst the lefties…
Whole point of this thread is to show how difficult it is to survive on benefits and your comment is ‘it should be difficult to survive on benefits’ because your part time job had a shit wage? The problem is wages haven’t risen to meet living costs. Not that benefits are too high.
And surely £120 for 3 days is way below minimum wage?