Comment on UK ‘in violation of international law’ over poverty levels, says UN envoy
Squizzy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
£85 is insane to live on, is that part of a separate payment? The jobseeker’s, dole, disability in Ireland is over twice that. Is social insurance a separate provision?
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 10 months ago
You can also get Council Tax benefit, and Housing Benefit (more of a Landlord Benefit, really).
Council tax benefit saves you either some or all of the local council tax payment (~£1000 - £2500 in most places). Amusingly, it tends to be cheaper in wealthy areas.
Landlord benefit pays a percentage of what the Landlord asks for rent, generally compared to average rents in the area you live - so that might be £2000 - £3000 where I live in the North, but £10000 down South somewhere. You don’t see any of that money personally, but it helps to make good headlines for angry “newspapers” and government policies.
There’s additional bits of payment for caring for children under a particular age, disability etc, but generally, yeah, that’s your lot.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You guys have to pay over 1k pounds to your local towns?
smeg@feddit.uk 10 months ago
How much you pay is proportional to how much your property is worth (see Wikipedia for deets)
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Okay, so like property taxes here. Gotcha. I was just interested in different methods of collecting funds there are.