Anybody else feel annoyed about paying rent and council tax when freeloaders dont?

Question

I work a 40 hour week as a nurse and I have to pay my studenty debts, rent, council tax and bills from my wage. My friend doesnt work as she has two kids as a single mum, she gets £325 a week and rent paid ona 4 bedroomed house worth £130,000. I feel like quiting working as I get so low aboiut ti. I wont though. Anybody else feel this?

Answer 1

Well where is the father of your friend's children?

Raising children is a full time job. Children of single parents are far more likely go astray, commit crimes, do drugs, and become burdens on the community than children who had one parent at home often.

I'm not sure how the government assistance programs there are, but here, they really are set up in such ways that they unintentionally keep people dependent on them.

For example, many of these programs prohibit a person from having more than a certain amount of assets to their name. Often it's around $2,000, which isn't much. It's enough to pay for rent, utilities, and food for maybe a about a month and a half. So this person cannot really save any amount of money, should they find a way to do so, to sustain themselves in an emergency, nor are they usually willing to make investments as if the value of the investment plus their assets rose $2,000 temporarily would cause their benefits to cease, nor are they likelt to seek out higher education, as scholarships may do the same thing, leaving them with not enough money to continue the education, nor do they benefit from winning large sums of money.

If you win $10,000 you get the $10,000 plus whatever you make at your job, minus taxes.

If they win $10,000 they lose whatever assistance they would have received and have until the $10,000 runs out to do something about it.

If you are disabled or a single mother it can be very difficult to find a way to do something about it.

So it might at first seem more appealing to simply live off of government assistance, but you, with a job, and not constrained by the laws of government assistance, actually have far more potential for financial advancement than someone on it.

You will someday pay off those student loans, and when you do, pretend you didn't and take that money and save it until you have enough to invest. Invest in something long term which has a history of stable growth. You have far more freedom than your friend.