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English families on Universal Credit have had their income threshold for free school meals cut.
Families in Northern Ireland have, notably, been exempt from the legislation: goo.gl/yxLWyp
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English families on Universal Credit have had their income threshold for free school meals cut.
Families in Northern Ireland have, notably, been exempt from the legislation: goo.gl/yxLWyp
Good idea?
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I distance myself from the WSS description of people in receipt of benefits - I'm almost ashamed to understand what it means.
The vast majority of people in receipt of benefits are entirely honest and entitled to what they receive.
But a very significant proportion of them have been very badly served by being given all their benefit as money and forced to take full responsibility for paying their own bills - it is just beyond many people's organisational capacity to do the budgeting without help - and that help has been spectacularly poor/absent.
It was an ill thought out and badly implemented change that wants to be reversed.
The vast majority of people in receipt of benefits are entirely honest and entitled to what they receive.
But a very significant proportion of them have been very badly served by being given all their benefit as money and forced to take full responsibility for paying their own bills - it is just beyond many people's organisational capacity to do the budgeting without help - and that help has been spectacularly poor/absent.
It was an ill thought out and badly implemented change that wants to be reversed.
The majority of Parents will manage this by cutting back in other areas of daily life - the evening meal,heating etc - of course some will find it harder than others and a few won't cope at all.
Someone mentioned rent arrears earlier, a big cause of that is Councils who can take 13 weeks to either start a HB claim or update one following a change of circumstances.
Landlords have queues of people lined up to take a tenancy and aren't patient.
Someone mentioned rent arrears earlier, a big cause of that is Councils who can take 13 weeks to either start a HB claim or update one following a change of circumstances.
Landlords have queues of people lined up to take a tenancy and aren't patient.
The function of schools is to educate children. It is not their responsibility to clothe them or to provide them with free food. Those schools which do provide meals should be paid by the parents for their services.
All parents with an income of less than £50k receive Child Benefit. This is currently £20.70 pw for the first child and £13.70 pw for each subsequent child. They should use that to feed their children.
As for different arrangements prevailing in various parts of the UK, please don't start me off!
All parents with an income of less than £50k receive Child Benefit. This is currently £20.70 pw for the first child and £13.70 pw for each subsequent child. They should use that to feed their children.
As for different arrangements prevailing in various parts of the UK, please don't start me off!
SD:"The vast majority of people in receipt of benefits are entirely honest and entitled to what they receive. " - you want to get out more mate, there are entire estates of dole dossers out there where getting up the duff is a career move. How do I know? because that's where I came from. Until TGL showed me the way I too was in these public funded ghettos.
Mamya - I hope I'm not in your gunsights? - I was trying to make a serious point about the way that benefit is paid having had a disastrous effect on many families who just can't budget effectively?
Your comment about HBs is a case in point - I think a landlord was more likely to wait patiently for a claim to be processed if the end result was going to be a direct payment to him/her - rather than the money going to the claimant who might then choose to use some/all of it for other purposes (however legitimate those purposes might be)?
Your comment about HBs is a case in point - I think a landlord was more likely to wait patiently for a claim to be processed if the end result was going to be a direct payment to him/her - rather than the money going to the claimant who might then choose to use some/all of it for other purposes (however legitimate those purposes might be)?
