Does anyone else have little money and into their overdraft regularly?
Does anyone else have little money and into their overdraft regularly?
Thanks for letting me know. That sounds like an interesting job, and great that you don't have to deal with the public. I wish I could find something out of the public gaze near me.
With all your experience and loyalty to the company, I'm sure whoever takes it over will need to keep you, so I hope they see sense!
Hi, yeh I work organising a warehouse for a mail order company, I was lucky, the owner of the business noticed I didn't like dealing with the public, but was good at sorting things into groups, done it for 26 years now since leaving school.
Really would be hard for me to find another job if I was ever lost this job, and as the guy who owns the place is approaching retirement age, I am a bit concerned
I only earn £200 a week
Can I ask what it is you do? If I could earn this much, it would help me tremendously and probably spare me from having to apply for benefits.
Please feel free to private message me if you'd rather not discuss it in the open forum. Thanks.
I have little money but I avoid borrowing as much as I can as I do not feel I can afford to pay the interest.
I often feel that it is unfair that some people inherit something from their parents but I have not inherited anything. Instead, a parent keeps demanding things that cost money from me. Understandably, she feels even more desperate living in even worse housing conditions.
I have never lived in a decent place. I have lived all my life in horrible places with anti social behaviour and drunk people. I wish I had a decent, nice and quiet house. Not necessary big.
I have struggled all my life even to keep any roof over my head.
I feel I have not had enough starting capital and I suffer because of this all my life.
I know a lot of people who have worked hard their whole life and earned lots of money - but they had no concept of relaxing or enjoying life. They work until they die and the tax man gets it all.
Had a really bad experience the first time I applied, admittedly I didn't have a formal diagnosis at the time.
Last time I applied I had my diagnosis and had a specialist nurse who knew about autism, I got the basic daily rate, it's only £50 odd a week, but makes a big difference as I only earn £200 a week and don't receive any other benefits.
You just have to keep trying, sooner or later you will get somewhere.
Yes me too. I have worked earning money since aged 9, I used to cycle to do a job in a market for 1 hour before going to primary school. Carried on with high focus on work as a doctor saving and not spending so became a multimillionaire, but didn’t know how to spend money and have fun, so now have regrets and realise the tax man will be getting loads from me £100,000 every year, and so I worry about that! Easy to spend, well I don’t know how and I live frugally. Wife ozone friendly so won’t go on any flying holidays or long journeys.
Money can be a problem and a worry! Give it away but then maybe a lot more goes to tax man and I’ve already had it taxed a few times
Have a look at Howard Hughes. He might have been a billionaire but ? Autistic. Died from malnutrition and self neglect!
Hello, I have money in my bank at the moment but my bank has just suddenly blocked me from getting my money out (I think that is totally against the law) and I had shopping going to be delivered today but it probably won’t get here. It was after I did the shopping last night that I tried to buy something else then realised that my bank had blocked me from using my money for no reason. Now I have to telephone them which I find difficult. Maybe they will let me chat to them online. Sometimes companies force you to talk to them by telephone.
I have thought about that and need more money but I just can’t communicate with them and I’m worried that they will misunderstand me or that if someone knows I have autism they will be cruel to me or hurt me as has happened to me in the past when people knew. If I apply it will mean I will have to answer questions and talk to people. I can’t do that.
I probably survive because I don't have a mortgage to pay off. I'm also an obsessive saver & economiser.
I was looking yesterday at the sort of pod homes that some charities in the UK are now providing for homeless people. And I was thinking how sensible that would be (with a few slight modifications) for the increasing number of singletons these days. After WW2, prefab houses were provided en masse for returning, economically-challenged war vets. Too much doctrine and too many rentiers are keeping many of us from living practical, sensible and satisfactory lives.
I used CAB the first time but I'm using welfare rights now as if it gets as far as tribunal again they send someone to represent you.
yep, another thing that went against me, driving there, they coming to my house this time, and i aint gonna shave for a few months, which is normal for me, it just turned out that the tribunal was a week after my wedding anniversary and my wife made me go for a trim lol.
Yes - like getting yourself to the assessment and being able to answer the questions - it's stacked against you. 
Worth talking to the CAB specialists for help filling in the form.
but also very hard to get, I'm on second application. Oh and apparently being neatly shaved goes against you.
Hello agape,
I have never used an overdraft, however I always seen to be short despite the fact I hardly spend anything. However, lately I have take to coming up with a budget for each week, so that every month I will have managed to save a little.
