April Budget (1 Viewer)

[ernesto]

So the mumbo jumbo about rent allowance being restructured on budget day actually means that the rent cap is being reduced by 10% and payments will be cut by another €5 p/w (it was cut by the same amount in december).

so now rent cap is €88.20 p/w for a single person per room in Dublin and now you have to pay €23 p/w aswell, is that correct?

 

[Squiggle]

dude i work with (middle manager, married, few kids) reckons his family are 600 quid less a month.

My boss was moaning that he's going to be about 16k worse off a year. No sympathy. He's overpaid anyway.

They should have increased the tax for the higher paid, or added a third tax bracket. This double taxation shit (which is what the levy amounts to) is bollocks.

if interested to see how this budget hits you, check out http://www.deloitte.ie/tc/Default.aspx

Hmm, useful, thank you. Doesn't look like it's going to hurt too much.

I'm just glad that I have a reasonably secure job at the moment.

 

[damien]

is this for new applicants or current recipients?

i can understand the logic if it's for new applicants since - in general - rents are falling, but if it's for current recipients that's a bit rough since renegotiating the terms of a lease mid-term isn't exactly easy.

I'd say its for both. That was the spin that was put on it in the budget speech, but on one hard, realistically the rent cap never came close to much of what was on offer during the height of the rent boom, and secondly, no matter how much your rent is, you'll still have to pay another five euro towards it - if it was all about rent levels falling, surely this wouldn't come in to it.

so now rent cap is €88.20 p/w for a single person per room in Dublin and now you have to pay €23 p/w aswell, is that correct?

You definitely have to contribute €23 per week now. Not sure what the cap is, I'd have to go and do some maths, which I don't really have time to do right now.. you've probably done it. These specifics were not released on budget day, just some crap about restructuring the rent supplment scheme to come in line with falling rents (which of course, sounds totally reasonable to the lay observer). I just saw this while browsing the papers in a shop this morning.

I could be wrong, but I think it means there's been a 300%+ increase in what people on rent allowance have to pay towards their rent in the last 16 months.

 

[Froog]

i'm down 6 quid a week! the horror.

 

[ernesto]

you seem to know loads about this Damo. ill wait until you have time to do the maths!

 

[damien]

I'm about to start a consultancy firm.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Batt For Lashes

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0415/breaking8.htm

 

[snakybus]

I'm down 680 per month

It'll cost us 120 quid for my missus to go back to work

 

[orange pekoe]

Gah. I've been trying not to think about it. I now haven't a hope of getting myself out of this hole. More and more work for less money.

 

[maims bond]

I'm down 680 per month

It'll cost us 120 quid for my missus to go back to work

Fuck, that is severe. That'll learn you for eating all the caviar during the good times and running over those Fabergé Eggs in your Maserati.

 

[Froog]

i've had to trade down from chocolate hob-nobs to regular.

 

[snakybus]

ah it's grand; there be lean times and there be plentiful times, you gotta expect that in life

 

[Froog]

as long as i don't end up on rich tea biccys or....digestives!

actually who the fuck thought "digestives" would be a good name for a biscuit?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

as long as i don't end up on rich tea biccys or....digestives!

actually who the fuck thought "digestives" would be a good name for a biscuit?

id say it was the victorians, they were big into their bowel movements them lads..

 

[broken arm]

id say it was the victorians, they were big into their bowel movements them lads..

digestives are the bomb. I'm eating some dark choclate ones right now.

wait, what was the point again?

 

[ratmonkey]

The dark chocolate caramel ones are the best.

 

[Froog]

i'd only refer to the plain-as-you-like variety as "digestives", ones with chocolate or caramel i'd call "plain chocolate" or "caramels" respectively.

 

[Gambra]

id say it was the victorians, they were big into their bowel movements them lads..

Ahh Qi, the source of many a fascinating tidbit.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Ahh Qi, the source of many a fascinating tidbit.

it was spike milligan actually...dont have access to the forint channels

 

[ratmonkey]

i'd only refer to the plain-as-you-like variety as "digestives", ones with chocolate or caramel i'd call "plain chocolate" or "caramels" respectively.

Last time I got them it said digestive on the packet.