You could address these by continuing the child disability elements and work allowance during the child’s apprenticeship, and mandating child maintenance over the same period (ie do not treat apprenticeships as paid employment for maintenance purposes).
Parents of disabled children lose any child disability elements in UC as well as the basic child amount.
Working single parents who do not have another child lose their work allowance (the amount they can earn without universal credit being affected). Single parents are more likely to receive child maintenance than couples and to see it reduced or lost once the apprenticeship starts.
I think the worst issues here are the differences in treatment between couples and single parents and the loss of child disability support.
maybe so, but for a 35 hour week it’s more than three times what a single person under 25 on universal credit is expected to live on - apprentice MW has increased 70% in real terms over the past 10 years.
Yes - disappointing that many English local CTR schemes are silent on the treatment of the transitional element (as a result taking it into account as income).
*might
Median FT earnings 39k. 6.1k annuity per 100k (single, LPI, no health, no protected period) gives closer to 640k. I didn’t include SRP (you said fully funded) this accounts for c200k of the difference.
Yes, but then this *is* a very good investment.
Sorry a bit less than 7%
You’d need about £700,000 in today’s money - your 8k investment needs real terms growth of very roughly 7.5%.
Latterly Thames, now Southern. Great company. Brilliant financial engineers, top notch contract lawyers. And to be fair, perhaps us poms are due a bit of reverse colonisation.
Counterpoint: it’s Macquarie.
If they’re doing this at MS now, we should prepare for a post MS future. If they’re foisting it on customers, but not on themselves, we should prepare for a post MS future.
It was fixed the next day - again IIRC!
Reminds me of the very first error I reported on .GOV.UK - you couldn’t successfully search for Jobseeker’s Allowance because IIRC it was comparing a literal apostrophe against its UTF encoding.
Good to get into the weeds on this, but surprised that there was no mention of Hegseth gutting the Civilian Protection Centre www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
The tories got 60% there in 79.
If it wins Tim Stanley’s support for 48 hours, all of Labour’s appeasement of the far right will have been justified.
Housing benefit and UC housing element as support for paying rent to private landlords is a bit less than five percent of total benefits expenditure (roughly 15 billion of about £325 billion). These don't cover all rent, so the % of all benefit income paid to private landlords will be a bit higher
Declan Gaffney has made a list:
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If Emerald Fennel’s “Wuthering Heights” had to exist so we could have that headline, it might have been worth it.
Yes, but social media segmentation means that they can show Farage to the drinkers and Jenrick to the more fiscally and morally uptight
Quite possibly. But the best job title ever is Commissioner of the Northern Lights.
In a regime that placed the slightest value on consistency, this would sit uncomfortably with the push for Greenland.
[all of us - very real sense - living in] Mr Starmer’s Reformatory.
“To know your enemy you must become him”, a dictum taken far too far by an exceptionally literal-minded man.
Northern Ireland makes top up payments which compensate claimants affected by the Benefit Cap. Following abolition of 2CL, these cost of these payments is expected to more than triple, implying that substantial numbers of 3+ child families elsewhere in UK will not see the full increase in benefit
