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Originally Posted by onlyme
I'm a single working mum, and dont receive any benefits apart from Child benefit as I earn 'too much'. However, once taking into account childminders, house payments, gas, electric, council tax, food (and not a lot of that), my outgoings come to almost £1600 per month. I would financially be better off not working. The system is drastically wrong!
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It's one of the problems of income based assessments. They assume everybody has the same expenditure to enable them to work.