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Band 6 nurses are on around £35k per year I would guess so what sort of salary would people need in order to have a reasonable standard of living then?

I assume she is living alone as surely any couple with 2 wages coming in, one of whichis £35k, should be in with a shout?

On the other hand a single parent on £35k might, with one proviso, receive Universal Credit.

The proviso is that they're renting privately in an area, like most of England, where private rents have gone through the roof. The landlord, not the claimant, is the beneficiary of this munificence...
 
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On the other hand a single parent on £35k might, with one proviso, receive Universal Credit.

The proviso is that they're renting privately in an area, like most of England, where private rents have gone through the roof. The landlord, not the claimant, is the beneficiary of this munificence...

In that instance the average wage across the UK really needs to go up a bit then.

I was married to a band 6 Nurse for many yrs, still am but she's retired, so I'm well aware of the salary structure and as part of our joint income I can safely say we were relatively comfortable financially.

Now as you quite correctly point out in certain circumstances £35k per yr would still be difficult to live on but surely life choices come into it then, can everyone expect to have the option to live alone with a child or 2 in an expensive area of the country irrespective what job they have and someone else cover the shortfall in salary?

My Daughter doesn't get paid much as a TA in a primary school and would obviously like her own place one day but realises the career she has chosen won't afford her the opportunity to leave home and buy her own place as a singleton.
 
Now as you quite correctly point out in certain circumstances £35k per yr would still be difficult to live on but surely life choices come into it then, can everyone expect to have the option to live alone with a child or 2 in an expensive area of the country irrespective what job they have and someone else cover the shortfall in salary?

My Daughter doesn't get paid much as a TA in a primary school and would obviously like her own place one day but realises the career she has chosen won't afford her the opportunity to leave home and buy her own place as a singleton.
If your job is in an 'expensive' area and you're a single parent of (say) 2 teenage children then how does living in a decent home of one's own become a 'life choice'?

Using the example of a single parent on £35k then even in Wolverhampton, where the max allowed for rent is around £600/month, they'd get
around £640 in UC. That assumes they're paying into the NHS pension scheme.
 

BoldonLad

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As an example, my wife's just been telling me about one of her nurses who qualified seven years ago and even though she's just been promoted to a Band 6, she has to use a food bank as amongst other things, she's still paying off her punitive student loan.

She sees her nurses' dreams of becoming a valued benefit to society gradually becoming eroded by the economic realities of just what that means and the creeping disdain, sometimes open resentment they are now facing from the public stirred up by the right-wing press.

She currently has three jobs being advertised but will have to provide cover for these positions somehow for probably quite some time as there are no nurses applying for the roles, which exemplifies your post there.

If our good friend challenges me on specifics, I'm quite prepared to give more details.

If she qualified 7 years ago (2015 say), wouldn't she have been training on the Nursing Bursary scheme?
 

BoldonLad

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If your job is in an 'expensive' area and you're a single parent of (say) 2 teenage children then how does living in a decent home of one's own become a 'life choice'?

Using the example of a single parent on £35k then even in Wolverhampton, where the max allowed for rent is around £600/month, they'd get
around £640 in UC. That assumes they're paying into the NHS pension scheme.

Are these people all bereaved, or, has their been an upsurge in virgin births?
 

winjim

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Single parents have a hard time without being judged for their situation.
 

winjim

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It's irrelevant to the discussion anyway. Single parents exist, including those on a single wage. That's all we need to know.
 
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If your job is in an 'expensive' area and you're a single parent of (say) 2 teenage children then how does living in a decent home of one's own become a 'life choice'?

Using the example of a single parent on £35k then even in Wolverhampton, where the max allowed for rent is around £600/month, they'd get
around £640 in UC. That assumes they're paying into the NHS pension scheme.

The life choices I'm referring to is deciding whether to have children if you can't afford them or not become a single parent if possible or make sure the estranged partner pays his/her way, there's lots of choices people make along the way to help themselves.

I haven't got a clue what 'maximum allowed for rent' means and even less of and idea what 'UC' is?
 
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