Starting this week

[Shabbychic]

Some changes Westminster are making, starting this week.....

April 1: TV Licence goes up to £147
April 1: Housing Benefit for 18-21-year olds is scrapped - but I believe the Scottish Government will be extending the Scottish Welfare Fund to cover this in Scotland. (just as they covered the Bedroom Tax)
April 3: Employment Support Allowance (Work Related Activity Group) is being chopped from £102 to £73 a week for new claimants.
April 3: Universal Credit conditionality changes will mean parents are now expected to look for work when their youngest child turns three, rather than five.
April 6: The tax credit family element is no longer available for people starting a family.
April 6: Bereavement support is being slashed, with financial help only available for just 18 months now - down from up to 20 years.
April 6: Money Purchase Annual Allowance for pension contributions chopped from £10,000 to £4,000.

Nice.

[golach]

Some changes Westminster are making, starting this week.....

April 1: TV Licence goes up to £147
April 1: Housing Benefit for 18-21-year olds is scrapped - but I believe the Scottish Government will be extending the Scottish Welfare Fund to cover this in Scotland. (just as they covered the Bedroom Tax)
April 3: Employment Support Allowance (Work Related Activity Group) is being chopped from £102 to £73 a week for new claimants.
April 3: Universal Credit conditionality changes will mean parents are now expected to look for work when their youngest child turns three, rather than five.
April 6: The tax credit family element is no longer available for people starting a family.
April 6: Bereavement support is being slashed, with financial help only available for just 18 months now - down from up to 20 years.
April 6: Money Purchase Annual Allowance for pension contributions chopped from £10,000 to £4,000.

Nice.

Whats happening at Holyrood?
fixing the police NO
fixing the NHS No
fixing schools No
fixing the railways NO

[Shabbychic]

Whats happening at Holyrood?

fixing the police NO
fixing the NHS No
fixing schools No
fixing the railways NO

Well....the Scottish Parliament Voted for a Second Independence Referendum


The Parliament also voted Yes to an amendment from the Scottish Greens to allow all 16 & 17-year-olds and EU Nationals living in Scotland to be given the vote. Well done the Greens!


Sorry, but you did ask.


The rest wasn't really a question, was it? It was really just some of the usual unionist rhetoric. Anyway, you answered it all yourself with you own information to hand.

[Oddquine]

Well....the Scottish Parliament Voted for a Second Independence Referendum


The Parliament also voted Yes to an amendment from the Scottish Greens to allow all 16 & 17-year-olds and EU Nationals living in Scotland to be given the vote. Well done the Greens!


Sorry, but you did ask.


The rest wasn't really a question, was it? It was really just some of the usual unionist rhetoric. Anyway, you answered it all yourself with you own information to hand.

Always think that people who say stuff isn't being fixed really mean that the stuff isn't being fixed in the way they think it should be done. If their preferred Government did exactly the same, they'd be happy enough....so it's just another version of SNPBAD

[The Horseman]

It seem the 'welfare state' in the UK 'runneth over'. One cannot expect all the benefits 'free'.
There are many jobs in the U.K. and in other Countries that cannot be filled, but no one wants them if they can make more on the Dole. Just a thought.

[mi16]

It seem the 'welfare state' in the UK 'runneth over'. One cannot expect all the benefits 'free'.
There are many jobs in the U.K. and in other Countries that cannot be filled, but no one wants them if they can make more on the Dole. Just a thought.

Aint that the truth.
I cant wait to get financially bent over and sodomised dry by the SNP when they get their independence and have to pay for all of the workshy and useless.
Obviously we need a benefit system for the genuine folk but we are way off the mark as is.