Exclusive: Special rapporteur Olivier De Schutter to urge ministers to increase welfare spending on visit to country this week

Exclusive: Special rapporteur Olivier De Schutter to urge ministers to increase welfare spending on visit to country this week

  • @Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•1 year 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.ukEnglish
      5•1 year 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 per year 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 per year where I live in the North, but £10000 per year 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.

            • @tankplanker@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2•1 year ago

              I wish we had a proper property tax here that was based on house and land value that was the same nationally. With the way council tax works richer areas, which almost always have more expensive houses and land, pay less annually than the same property in the cheaper area and yet their local council is better funded. A national system is the only way to reverse this.

            • @smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              I don’t know where your property tax goes, but that might overlap with our Stamp Duty, which is basically our tax on buying a house and is a nationwide government thing. Council Tax I think goes to your local council and is used for things like bin collection, buses, potholes, and local community events (and it keeps going up because the Tories keep cutting the amount that councils get from the government).