LIKE many low income families, mine is quite dependent on the Chancellor’s budget for help with the effects of the recession.
Most of our income goes on rent. The Chancellor has brought down mortgage interest rates but our housing association has just put up our rent by more than inflation.
The cost of food and bills, eating up most of our remaining income, have also risen more than inflation.
Things were getting so desperate I even thought about becoming an MP so I could claim a “daily attendance allowance” just for turning up for work, as well as wages for working.
Then I noticed the Government’s “green car” subsidy. Since the money will come from all of us as taxpayers, I thought I might as well claim my share.
Instead of wasting hundreds of pounds a year on bus and train fares, I could learn to drive, buy an old car, then trade it in for a new one. Then I can claim my £2,000 from the Chancellor and apparently help the economy and the planet too.
Dave Jones, Wellend Villas, Springfield Road, Brighton
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