[NWH]

I bet there’s nothing you can take from his speech that you can go away with and think thank god for that,it’s got to be tailored to each of us some will get hardly anything some will get enough to feed the dog.
They keep going on about this universal credit we could claim for that says it all to me it’s 70-90 quid a week 😆,that does not tell me they are thinking of giving us upwards of 2500 💩

[deeege]

I’ve got stuff lined up waiting to go for tomorrow for when his speech is finished,he will be trying to baffle us all with nonsense

Has he asked you for advice on how to do that? 😂

[CleanClear]

I reckon each self employed person will get about £98 a week, and if you need more you'll be able to apply for some means tested benefit. Thats my prediction.

[deeege]

Here’s my prediction:-

If you are on universal credit there will be no additional help.

If you have over £16k in savings there will be no additional help.

There will be a list of trades/jobs that will be deemed safe to carry on working, window cleaning is one of them.

For the rest of the self employed it will be last 3 tax years profit divided by 36 upto a maximum of ~£2k per month.

Company directors and anyone that paid themselves any other way will be exempt and will receive nothing.

Basically a big fat up yours to this whole industry. Hope I’m wrong.

[andyM]

Here’s my prediction:-

If you are on universal credit there will be no additional help.

If you have over £16k in savings there will be no additional help.

There will be a list of trades/jobs that will be deemed safe to carry on working, window cleaning is one of them.

For the rest of the self employed it will be last 3 tax years profit divided by 36 upto a maximum of ~£2k per month.

Company directors and anyone that paid themselves any other way will be exempt and will receive nothing.

Basically a big fat up yours to this whole industry. Hope I’m wrong.

Can i ask where you got the figure of £16k as the threshold in savings?
Im reckoning that any savings are going to be taken into account.
Hope im proved wrong though.

[NWH]

Exactly if you have any savings you’ll get nothing I’ve got over 7-8 times that universal credit lined up for the morning when he starts spouting crap like that,they’ve said you can stopped by the police now 😂 they’ll be self employed outrage I can see that.

[deeege]

Here’s my prediction:-

If you are on universal credit there will be no additional help.

If you have over £16k in savings there will be no additional help.

There will be a list of trades/jobs that will be deemed safe to carry on working, window cleaning is one of them.

For the rest of the self employed it will be last 3 tax years profit divided by 36 upto a maximum of ~£2k per month.

Company directors and anyone that paid themselves any other way will be exempt and will receive nothing.

Basically a big fat up yours to this whole industry. Hope I’m wrong.

Can i ask where you got the figure of £16k as the threshold in savings?
Im reckoning that any savings are going to be taken into account.
Hope im proved wrong though.

£16k is the threshold for being able to apply for universal credit I believe. I’ve never applied but I’m sure I read that somewhere recently.

[NWH]

A couple of comments above someone’s put 2 grand a month now it seems to be going down by the day that amount,we will get a pittance per week they were saying yesterday get down and sign up for your 90 quid a week that’s not gonna go from that to 2500 a month now is it I hope I’m wrong.

[andyM]

A couple of comments above someone’s put 2 grand a month now it seems to be going down by the day that amount,we will get a pittance per week they were saying yesterday get down and sign up for your 90 quid a week that’s not gonna go from that to 2500 a month now is it I hope I’m wrong.

Well i've just finished filling the van up with water ready for tomorrow.
And im taking my Banjo with me so i can do some busking in the High Street afterwards.
That's how much confidence i have in the Chancellor's announcement being a good one.     

[NWH]

My tank is brimmed and ready for Boris in the morning I’ll be working so far out the way I might bump into Bear grylls 😂 £90 a week my Mrs said I can’t get a bottle Coco for that 🤣

[NWH]

It’s gone down again on the news 1700 a month now 💩

[deeege]

The Times are reporting that the means testing will exclude those earning over £50k per year. I can’t see how that can be true, £50k per year, in the south east, as a single income is basically minimum wage isn’t it?

[dazmond]

i couldnt care less  as long as we are allowed to go about our business (unhindered)as usual.....i do feel for you more commercial window cleaners with lots of offices, shops,restaurants,pubs,etc though as you ll be taking a bigger hit on earnings than domestic guys

[NWH]

I don’t want any help from them just say back to work that’ll do me.

[dazmond]

or it could be that she had to spend 4 years at Uni racking up debt, whilst we can learn our job in ........5 minutes🤪

University is really difficult; trying to fit the studies in-between all the drinking, partying, sex and drugs.

Terrible isn't it?

Teaching isn't easy though; I wouldn't want to do it.  Kids are 'orrible things.

Don't tar all students with the same brush. My daughter finished uni inn June last year and didn't party go out on the lash or go shagging around. She now has over 30k of debt and still no job. Its not a non stop party for everyone.

ah....generation "sensible" thatll be...my stepdaughters the same(training to be a teacher)........a really nice studious young woman.....but we had much more fun when we were her age for sure! ...endless drink and drug parties,clubs,etc....

[RPCCS]

Load of bollox the self employed benefits.  Beginning of June before we get owt. What fkin use is that? Corona could be over by then. That's it Im going to look for work driving a van or wagon.

[Arnold Palmer]

Sunak is my boy.

[dazmond]

Load of bollox the self employed benefits.  Beginning of June before we get owt. What fkin use is that? Corona could be over by then. That's it Im going to look for work driving a van or wagon.

could you not go to work cleaning windows like you normally do?or have you lost a lot of commercial jobs?

[AuRavelling79]

Locked.