Food Banks

[Bazile]

Should there be a 35k salary cap on people using food Banks? .

[naomi24]

Why that specific salary?

[Bazile]

Just watching Jeremy Vine and this figure is the figure being quoted

I didn't see the start , so I presume it's from a story in the media

[pastafreak]

I think it's a reference to nurses on £35k needing food banks.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/michael-gove-slaps-down-tory-mp-who-said-nurses-using-food-banks-should-budget-better_uk_63c8ed5fe4b07c0c7dfa0bee

[youngmafbog]

But surely the idea behind food banks is that they are a temporary respite?

So how can you have a salary cap? For instance if someone on 100K a year had the push and they had a 400K mortgage, then they got a job for £45K they would be worse off than someone who earns 35K but much lower expenditure.

And is the 35K one person, a couple or a household?

[nicebloke1]

More like a cap on anyone who can work, but won't work. Anyone going to a food bank on 35k, needs to go back to school to learn how to budget. And the ones on even less than that, if you have saddled yourself with the biggest mortgage you could get, then you are near on brainless. Don't expect anyone else to bail you out.

[youngmafbog]

I simply played devils advocate and an example of how it could happen. It was not meant to be literal.

And 400K would not be the biggest mortgage you could get necessarily on 100K.

[THECORBYLOON]

"And the ones on even less than that, if you have saddled yourself with the biggest mortgage you could get, then you are near on brainless."

Are they "near on brainless" if their circumstances have changed outwith their control, since taking out that mortgage?

[bednobs]

"Don't expect anyone else to bail you out"
therefore starve please

[Old_Geezer]

Surely, "therefore get advice on budgeting properly" ?

[Deskdiary]

Can we please stop this nonsense that nurses are relying on foodbanks.

Nurses are not poorly paid.

If a nurse is using a food bank it’s because they are not managing their money properly.

I’m sick and tired of the boring trope that Nurses are underpaid - they ain’t

There’s plenty of families who earn less than nurses who don’t use food banks, and don’t whine about their lot.

Every nurse who strikes has blood on their hands, because people will die, not quite the angels and TikTok stars they want us to believe they are.

[Tilly2]

They didn't do too badly during the pandemic. Would you be a nurse?

[barry1010]

Not all nurses are the same, my neighbour is highly paid but I know nurses that aren't. Childcare for shift workers is not cheap and nurses pay increases have not kept up with inflation for years.

There should not be a cap on using food banks.

[webbo3]

https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1615727285407031298?s=20&t=tZ7ajoOk6GUjdb0JPClwIg

Intensive care nurses are on £37-42k pa, she needs to budget properly

[Deskdiary]

Ever since you said you were against free speech Tilly, it’s difficult to respond to you.

[Canary42]

Nurse expecting to be paid. How greedy - isn't being applauded by the Prime Minister on his doorstep enough ? Some of the peasants have no respect for the filthy rich.

[choux]

Anybody's circumstances can take a dive.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11648635/Grandson-legendary-circus-showman-Billy-Smart-racked-9million-debt-sleep-car.html

Bazille makes a point though - there is a limit on the help food banks can do and their assistance has to go the most needy and vulnerable.

[nicebloke1]

13.24. Some people just dont get it. If you borrow money to buy a house, or anything for that matter. Theres a risk involved, YOU AND YOU ALONE made that choice.Bad luck if it went tits up.No one starves in this country even when in debt.

[Mozz71]

You know, the more I see of Nicebloke1's posts, the more I see his username is a complete misnomer.

[nicebloke1]

Lordy, what you on about mozz?? Have you got confused with the OP.

[Deskdiary]

Just in case mine at 6.50pm looks a bit cryptic, here is Tilly confirming she does not believe in free speech.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1819855-2.html