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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
When l was unemployed - my JSA was £72.00 per week and that was for a family, child benefit had stopped.
My rent was £48.00and we had to find council from that also. we were told we couldn't claim for anything else.
How can you live on £20 per week. you cannot, we had a key meter for electric and gas.
Everything went. We asked for a grant to cover travelling expenses for jobs, we were told to walk.
I have a disabled son who gets benefit each month, and part of our benefit was cut due to this benefit. So basically we had approx £30.00 per week left to survive on.
You cannot survive on that. Remember the UK is not a third world country, and the voters of this country should not have to go through this.
With all the aid that is given out by this country to others, this should be given to the voters of this country.
When Cameron stands up in the commons and says that this country is thriving under their rule, he should take a look at the people that are queuing up at Food Banks seeking food for their families - and see what his policies are doing to this country.
And a figure recently said that Osborne borrows more money that Labour ever did.
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If child benefit had stopped, that will be because they were no longer children.
If they still lived with you they would have their own income from wages and/or benefits. A contribution to rent and household expenses would be expected to come from that.
Wouldn't Housing Benefit have been paid?
The borrowing figures story came from Labour and was typically nonsense and misleading. Labour borrowed more in their last 3 years, than this government has in it's first 3. The budgets for 2010/11 for governments departments, councils etc would have been set by April 2010, ie under Labour. Borrowing in relation to those budgets would be down to Labour.