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Indeed it is, if you look back you will see that I included my JSA, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit as income. I did the same here, except the main income is wages. Therefore the comparison is equivalent in every way (bar the free prescriptions and dental treatment - which I very rarely have anyway, and would probably be paid in full, or at least in part, if I applied for a HC2 certificate).shoes said:
Interesting, only skim read it but apart from the obvious housing benefits issue seems good. As long as the scheme did not effect the actual income tax rates anyway, as you are now funding everyone not just those not working. As it is a flat 33% doesn't sound too bad, but would this really fund the outgoings listed? Rich people would love this, 7% off their tax bill.Lunar Scorpion said:
You have to sign a Jobseeker's Agreement, which requires you to take at least three steps each week to find employment. If they have decided that you have not done this, you are more than likely to have your money docked. You have to attend the nearest Jobcentre every two weeks (without travel cost reimbursement, I once spoke to someone who ended up walking from Stone) ON TIME, which means that even if you are only 5 minutes late for your appointment they could still make an issue of it, despite the fact that I have consistently been seen 15-20 minutes late. If you are lucky enough to have been signing on for 6 months or more, they start putting you on various courses or placements under New Deal that you HAVE to attend to receive your money - these can be all day, 5 days a week. Thankfully, the Disability Employment Adviser is satisfied that I am doing enough (at the time I was doing a six week course one day a week with similar content that I would not have been able to attend otherwise, as well as doing my voluntary work) so with the agreement of the New Deal Adviser I didn't have to do it.shoes said:
I think there might be some kind of limit on earnings or additional tax. I would hope so, anyway. Don't know all the ins and outs of it, except that it's also a Green Party policy.tek-monkey said:
Three steps a week? I complete upwards of 20 tasks in one morning which are all the equivelent of at least two or three job application forms!!Lunar Scorpion said:
If you can't make three applications a week you deserve to have it docked!!Lunar Scorpion said:
Ah yes, because you're sooooooooooooooooooooo busy filling in all six of those applications. God, it's like a full time job!!Lunar Scorpion said:
Oh no... you mean almost like full time work?! You poor poor peopleLunar Scorpion said:
And thats the problem, these people left to their own devices can't achieve sweet FA, clearly, thats why we have such an unemployment problem, not even counting the additional 500,000 jobless since the economy crashed.Lunar Scorpion said:
Depends what he chargesbasil said:
