Originally posted by PerfectStorm
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Horrors of their first budget.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
Spouse maintenance or child maintence.
Child maintenance only last until the child is 18. It's cheaper to send their kid to live with their father.
And yeah very few people put in more than they take out over their life time. However not everything can be counted in money.
But beside the point - £2900 a month net income for someone who is not working is bonkers, whichever way you look at it. That is a disincentive to work - it is a bizarre scenario where someone who goes to work and supports their family and earns a decent £30k (decent in terms of national average away from the southeast) will take home significantly less than someone who is collecting state benefits.
Benefits should be a safety net, something to break someone's fall, not a comfortable lifestyle that affords luxuries and holidays.
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Originally posted by vetran View Post
pepper you say? interesting will give it a try.Comment
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Originally posted by fiisch View PostBenefits should be a safety net, something to break someone's fall, not a comfortable lifestyle that affords luxuries and holidays.Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
We look forward to hearing you've died of it.
Anyway, back to the budget.Comment
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Originally posted by escapeUK View Post
Yes. its obscene. Benefits should be capped at the minimum wage. Even that is too much.
If your housing is £400 a month (social housing) living with two kids on £1500 a month is doable.
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I miss the days when the only thing anyone cared about, in the budget, was how much of an increase would there be in the price of fags and booze.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View Post
Sadly our governments haven't built enough housing so the majority of benefits go on housing.
If your housing is £400 a month (social housing) living with two kids on £1500 a month is doable.In Scooter we trustComment
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UK increases stamp duty tax on second homes
Full story here:
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...20March%202025.
So far there does not appear to be much in the way of details here - for example what happens if exchange of contracts has already taken place but completion hasn't and whether the extra stamp is paid then.Comment
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Originally posted by Martin@AS Financial View PostUK increases stamp duty tax on second homes
Full story here:
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...20March%202025.
So far there does not appear to be much in the way of details here - for example what happens if exchange of contracts has already taken place but completion hasn't and whether the extra stamp is paid then.In Scooter we trustComment
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