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[STEMO]

I do think  some of the 'guinea pigs' were missing the point of the exercise.

One  spent £300 treating the whole family to a meal. Another bought his son a£400 playstation.

How much is £26000 free of tax and national insurance really worth?

I think they were missing more than that.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Can someone tell me........does every family that receives benefits live in a filthy hole, groom themselves with chip fat and have a distinct lack of teeth. Or is it just the ones channel 5 choose to show?

This is the answer.

If Channel 5 were to show the majority of people on benefits behaving well, then people would have nothing to throw at the television.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

£26000 equals the benefits cap, so it was a years money in advance. When it's gone, they will simply claim again.

What happens if all the money is gone in 3 months?

[STEMO]

£26000 equals the benefits cap, so it was a years money in advance. When it's gone, they will simply claim again.

What happens if all the money is gone in 3 months?

Back to the dole, I suppose. What else?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

£26000 equals the benefits cap, so it was a years money in advance. When it's gone, they will simply claim again.

What happens if all the money is gone in 3 months?

Back to the dole, I suppose. What else?

That'll upset a few on here.

[STEMO]

£26000 equals the benefits cap, so it was a years money in advance. When it's gone, they will simply claim again.

What happens if all the money is gone in 3 months?

Back to the dole, I suppose. What else?

That'll upset a few on here.

Well...they could always swap lives if it's that cushty on benefits.

[Andy B]

.........

How much is £26000 free of tax and national insurance really worth?

Put the other way ...... if you'd received £26000 net in benefits,  what would you have had to earn gross? Probably getting on for £40k. Not a bad wage .....

[STEMO]

26000-10600 personal tax allowance=15400 on which you would pay 20% income tax. So £3080.

National insurance starts at 12% after £155 per week. So, 155x52= 8060. 26000-8060=17940x12%=2150 approx.

So...26000+3080+2150=£31,230 is the annual salary needed to pick up £26000.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

26000-10600 personal tax allowance=15400 on which you would pay 20% income tax. So £3080.

National insurance starts at 12% after £155 per week. So, 155x52= 8060. 26000-8060=17940x12%=2150 approx.

So...26000+3080+2150=£31,230 is the annual salary needed to pick up £26000.

You may be correct.......but nobody likes a smartarse.

[STEMO]

26000-10600 personal tax allowance=15400 on which you would pay 20% income tax. So £3080.

National insurance starts at 12% after £155 per week. So, 155x52= 8060. 26000-8060=17940x12%=2150 approx.

So...26000+3080+2150=£31,230 is the annual salary needed to pick up £26000.

You may be correct.......but nobody likes a smartarse.

You're right. So, just to prove I'm not one, I think I might have ballsed that up. 

It's probably more like £33,000, but I can't be arsed working backwards from there.

[Viral_Jim]

£33,700 assuming you're not: registered blind, exempt from NI, excessively old or paying into a pension

http://www.listentotaxman.com/33700?

Buuuttttt.... AFAIK that doesn't include certain ancilliary benefits which you receive if not working - such as free glasses, dental treatment etc etc. I think that's only "direct" cash benefit. So if you had a family - which you would if you were getting the full £26k I suspect you'd have to be earning upwards of £40k before it paid you more - ridiculous.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Ridiculous indeed. I have always believed that benefits should provide a basic home, food, a reasonable amount of electricity / heating, and basic clothing, by way of vouchers.
Anything more than that should come from gainful employment.
I don't say this from the viewpoint of a comfortable, affluent lifestyle. I have been on benefits for a time myself in the last 10 years.
No wonder the pervading narrative is "we need the immigrants to do the jobs British people wont do".

[EMD]

I'm watching it now. I'm sat on my fat arse with ginsters pasty and a large bottle of full fat Coke, waiting to see what the fat, lazy bastards get up to.

[plym ian]

£33,700 assuming you're not: registered blind, exempt from NI, excessively old or paying into a pension

http://www.listentotaxman.com/33700?

Buuuttttt.... AFAIK that doesn't include certain ancilliary benefits which you receive if not working - such as free glasses, dental treatment etc etc. I think that's only "direct" cash benefit. So if you had a family - which you would if you were getting the full £26k I suspect you'd have to be earning upwards of £40k before it paid you more - ridiculous.

Did you not read the earlier posts

No need for dental treatment

[RobG]

£26000 equals the benefits cap, so it was a years money in advance. When it's gone, they will simply claim again.

One couple who had plans to start a secondhand goods business admitted that they received £6000 pa in benefits. Assume the rent was £100pw (paid direct) which equals £5200 - £400 for the "4 free rent weeks" = £4800, council tax was say £30pw which equals £1500pa.
So their gross annual take would be £6000 + £4800 + £1500. When I went to school that didn`t equate to £26000