I'm not sure I like the way this thread is going. There is no doubt that there are a LOT of people struggling to make ends meet since the price hikes on fuel and energy we are all having to pay now, and we are all noticing how much food is going up. But really, blaming people who don't have enough money to meet all of their living costs, and judging them for having TVs and mobile phones just isn't on.
Same here @didyw ... I know hard working folk who were struggling to make ends meet before the latest round of price rises ... mobile phones, access to the internet and tvs aren't luxuries they're necessities if you're self-employed, job-seeking or have school-aged children ... remember all the desperate attempts to get laptops to children so they could access their online lessons during lockdown?
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I was only talking about that to me old bro yesterday. It must be a nightmare nowadays - not only is there the peer pressure and the feeling of not keeping up with your peers (soul destroying in it's own right) - BUT a fridge/freezer, phone, computing device, internet connection.. aren't luxuries if you want to live cheaply or access banking or educate or... Costs our parents never had. The costs of those things were borne by the businesses - local shops (closed or closing), bank branches, teaching from books. Imagine going to school and having to buy the books? Why then expect the parents to provide computers? But a computer is only good if it's connected to the net - more cost. Then you buy all this stuff or get given it - but you have to power it.
Then some loony Tory says go out and get a better paid job...right. And who then does the lower paid jobs - and how do they survive? How we allow zero hours contracts and jobs that pay less than a minimum living wage (on a contracted number of hours) loses me. Don't tackle the problem - ie low paid and zero hour contract jobs - just tell people to get better paid work. Brilliant.
I offered my laptop during lock down, on Facebook, not old and not used, not a soul took up the offer.
Perhaps contacting schools would've been a more practical way of finding someone who needed it. In order to access Fbook folk need to have a computer and access to the internet already ...
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My daughter said it’s worthless, I offered it just for school work, apparently it’s no good for gaming. My step son was on universal credit, until a few weeks ago.
When he took a zero hours job in Tesco, just two days a week, they just deducted what he earned and made the rest up with UC. So, it seems now then that if they have a zero hours job and don’t get any wages that week, they get no help. That doesn’t seem right.
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I can get why very small companies might have to employ people on zero hour contracts but if a large and profitable company is doing it, it smacks of exploitation to me.
I think the way that it works @Lyn is that you let 'them' know what you've earned each week by signing in to your UC account online ... then the UC ensures that you get a minimum amount to cover your assessed needs ... once you're earning over that amount you keep the excess.
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My daughter said it’s worthless, I offered it just for school work, apparently it’s no good for gaming. ...
Well that probably explains it ... it probably doesn't have enough 'processing oomph' or whatever it's called to access the online school lessons, zooming and inter-active stuff needed for school work.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My step son was on universal credit, until a few weeks ago.
When he took a zero hours job in Tesco, just two days a week, they just deducted what he earned and made the rest up with UC.
So, it seems now then that if they have a zero hours job and don’t get any wages that week, they get no help. That doesn’t seem right.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.