Mortgages, being unemployed, etc, etc, etc ..(Split from national healthcare thread)
Aug 13th 2009, 12:57 am
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Re: Confused Yankee wants the truth on uks example of a national health care.
Bloody hard to get sacked in the EU for being sick though...pretty damn easy in the US. Makes a difference.
Aug 13th 2009, 1:00 am
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Re: Mortgages, being unemployed, etc, etc, etc ..(Split from national healthcare thre
Well I've done a little surgery myself and split this thread. Please note I have not charged for this service, will not be itemizing the bill, and there was no queuing involved. Make sure you have cleared your bowels before leaving the hospital and that you have tied your hospital gown very tight, I do not want to glimpse your little white bum as it departs the building........... as you were.
Aug 13th 2009, 1:04 am
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Re: Mortgages, being unemployed, etc, etc, etc ..(Split from national healthcare thre
Sue, I note that you have been very witty recently and whatever you are on I want some!
I often wonder if there could be a way of making BE into a soap opera but then I guess it is already, maybe you shoud write a book with the highlights...
I often wonder if there could be a way of making BE into a soap opera but then I guess it is already, maybe you shoud write a book with the highlights...
Aug 13th 2009, 1:12 am
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Re: Mortgages, being unemployed, etc, etc, etc ..(Split from national healthcare thre
Aug 13th 2009, 1:29 am
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Re: Confused Yankee wants the truth on uks example of a national health care.
So stuff that in your pipe and smoke it.
Aug 13th 2009, 1:33 am
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Re: Confused Yankee wants the truth on uks example of a national health care.
Maybe it behooves someone who ventures forth and writes this about being unemployed in the UK...
... to actually know that the unemployed get help with mortgage interest? Or to at least acknowledge that they were inaccurate instead of droning on for pages trying to defend their position?
Anyway, leaving that aside, it's good that we've now ascertained the following:
(i) In the US, medical bill-related bankruptcy is commonplace but virtually unknown in the UK.
(ii) In the US people are much more likely to lose their home after a serious illness, especially one that results in subsequent unemployment.
... to actually know that the unemployed get help with mortgage interest? Or to at least acknowledge that they were inaccurate instead of droning on for pages trying to defend their position?
Anyway, leaving that aside, it's good that we've now ascertained the following:
(i) In the US, medical bill-related bankruptcy is commonplace but virtually unknown in the UK.
(ii) In the US people are much more likely to lose their home after a serious illness, especially one that results in subsequent unemployment.
Maybe you should make it a public service to inform everyone of this service.
Aug 13th 2009, 1:40 am
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Re: Confused Yankee wants the truth on uks example of a national health care.
As I've just wrote on Sally's post - I'll write the same on yours. When I asked my husband, when he got home if he knew about paying mortgage payments when you are ill, he said the same thing that I said - he would and did have disability payments to cover what his earnings wouldn't cover. When I told him there was something else that the government paid, he said he'd never heard of anything like that - he's a British citizen. And never been on a jobseekers allowance....so perhaps that's why he didn't know. But if he doesn't know (will definitely ask MIL next time I talk to her) how many others (who don't trot on down to jobseekers) are aware of this?
Maybe you should make it a public service to inform everyone of this service.
Maybe you should make it a public service to inform everyone of this service.
When you were informed that there is help for unemployed people with their mortgage payments in the UK, you could have said, "Oh right, I didn't realise that, thanks."
Whether your husband has been in receipt of benefits or not is neither here nor there.
Aug 13th 2009, 1:43 am
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Re: Confused Yankee wants the truth on uks example of a national health care.
As I've just wrote on Sally's post - I'll write the same on yours. When I asked my husband, when he got home if he knew about paying mortgage payments when you are ill, he said the same thing that I said - he would and did have disability payments to cover what his earnings wouldn't cover. When I told him there was something else that the government paid, he said he'd never heard of anything like that - he's a British citizen. And never been on a jobseekers allowance....so perhaps that's why he didn't know. But if he doesn't know (will definitely ask MIL next time I talk to her) how many others (who don't trot on down to jobseekers) are aware of this?
Maybe you should make it a public service to inform everyone of this service.
Maybe you should make it a public service to inform everyone of this service.
Aug 13th 2009, 1:47 am
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Re: Confused Yankee wants the truth on uks example of a national health care.
I agree, and at the risk of being nailed because I'm a Yank as well, it's a bit of a gang up, which I abhor, no matter WHO or WHAT the persons involved are...........
Aug 13th 2009, 1:49 am
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Re: Confused Yankee wants the truth on uks example of a national health care.
OK this is getting a bit silly, but I'll bite.
When you were informed that there is help for unemployed people with their mortgage payments in the UK, you could have said, "Oh right, I didn't realise that, thanks."
Whether your husband has been in receipt of benefits or not is neither here nor there.
When you were informed that there is help for unemployed people with their mortgage payments in the UK, you could have said, "Oh right, I didn't realise that, thanks."
Whether your husband has been in receipt of benefits or not is neither here nor there.
Aug 13th 2009, 1:50 am
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Re: Confused Yankee wants the truth on uks example of a national health care.
I have been posting in this thread...well it's previous carnation since the thread began.
Aug 13th 2009, 1:51 am
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Aug 13th 2009, 1:55 am
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