Could you live on £ 53 a week ?

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

View attachment 50857 Who the hell can live on that :yikes: one take-away for three peeps :hurray:

 

[Ian]

I couldn't live on £53 a day!

 

[John Benton]

When you add up all your mortgage, gas, electric, insurance food etc it's nearer £53 a day, never mind a week

 

[Mr T]

that's what im on while im learning to tile lol

 

[Peter]

Depends if you own a house etc, plenty of people can and have to make do.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Do you live in a cardboard box mr T !!!!! how do you do it then mate ?

 

[Mr T]

struggle like a mofo.... and im trying t get all my tools together at the same time lol

 

[John Benton]

Do you live in a cardboard box mr T !!!!! how do you do it then mate ?

And if he does tell him not to tile it :lol:

 

[Martyn Leeds]

Tank it first

 

[Ajax123]

The government agrees that no one can live on £53 per week. The national minimum is from memory around £83 per week but this will comprise for example job seekers allowance and housing benefit or council to benefit etc etc. the problem as I see it is that if you suddenly become unemployed after having spent your life working for your money you will have no idea what you are entitled to, what you can get and how you can screw the system so you will probably have. Clue where to get the rest of the cash from.

I get extremely annoyed, like most folks on here, that lazy and selfish people can live very comfortably for a lifetime on benefits but there is no help for hard working folks who fall on hard times... The system stinks but here is nothing we can do about it and that really pees me off too...

 

[Mr T]

nah il pva it before tiling lol

 

[hotrod]

Gas/ electric / water and council tax now come to £95 per week that's without the mortgage or sky (surely no one can live without that!) cannot see how anyone can live on that for any length of time myself

 

[Ajax123]

Mind you having said that I couldn't live on £83 a week either....

 

[John Benton]

The government agrees that no one can live on £53 per week. The national minimum is from memory around £83 per week but this will comprise for example job seekers allowance and housing benefit or council to benefit etc etc. the problem as I see it is that if you suddenly become unemployed after having spent your life working for your money you will have no idea what you are entitled to, what you can get and how you can screw the system so you will probably have. Clue where to get the rest of the cash from.

I get extremely annoyed, like most folks on here, that lazy and selfish people can live very comfortably for a lifetime on benefits but there is no help for hard working folks who fall on hard times... The system stinks but here is nothing we can do about it and that really pees me off too...

We had a pamphlet pushed through our letterbox. Started to read it, saying we may be eligible to have a new boiler free of charge. Carried on reading, apparently, only eligible if I'm on this benefit and that benefit. I'm a hard working bloke and entitled to jack. How can that be right. It will be my taxes that's paying for this. Does my crust in.

 

[Mr T]

for the record i don't fall into that category of slob dole dosser lol im working for nothing other than my dole money just to change the way my life is!