School admission

[grahamw48]

My boy already works in the local Pizza place after college to top up his £20 a week pocket money.

....AND I'm paying for his driving lessons.

Me, I've got sod all to spare....just a poverty-stricken old has-been.

[Arthur Little]

Me, I've got sod all to spare....

... know the feeling, Graham. At least I DID - around the time I turned *60. Back then - being early retired, and aware that women had long been able to claim THEIR State Pension at *that age - I contacted the DWP ... who informed me I may be eligible for having my monthly superannuation allowance topped up by **Pension Credit (which I had never previously heard of) in order to bring it into line with the minimum income standards.

Anyway, an appropriate means test - and the fact that I still faced a couple more years of mortgage repayments - soon determined I'd be entitled to a small weekly sum, plus [more importantly] help with Council Tax until I reached age 65 ... although I must admit to being worried sick at sixty-four (not for the same reasons as the Beatles ) about the effect being in receipt of what, after all, amounted to a **'State Benefit', was likely to have on my eventual sponsorship of Myrna's spousal visa application.