Why do I bother?
The Evening Standard paper, which gets given out at the tube, today had a feature about the tax changes, using "real-life" people as examples.
One of the real life people is a lady who is unemployed but gets "About £840 a month from jobseeker's allowance and housing benefit". She spends "£570 rent, £80 food, travel and utility bills" monthly and is moaning about not being able to get a job and not being able to afford her car if people weren't helping her with it.
Despite working full time, after paying for my travelcard and a tiny pension amount, I only have about £350 a month more than her. It just makes me wonder what the point of me working in this frustrating and tiring job is, if I could stay at home and do without the extra £350 but have so much more free time and better mental health. Or does she get a weirdly high level of housing benefit for some unmentioned reason? Presumably if everyone could get that much sitting around at home we'd all be doing it.
One of the real life people is a lady who is unemployed but gets "About £840 a month from jobseeker's allowance and housing benefit". She spends "£570 rent, £80 food, travel and utility bills" monthly and is moaning about not being able to get a job and not being able to afford her car if people weren't helping her with it.
Despite working full time, after paying for my travelcard and a tiny pension amount, I only have about £350 a month more than her. It just makes me wonder what the point of me working in this frustrating and tiring job is, if I could stay at home and do without the extra £350 but have so much more free time and better mental health. Or does she get a weirdly high level of housing benefit for some unmentioned reason? Presumably if everyone could get that much sitting around at home we'd all be doing it.