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There are a lot of people working very hard on the minimum wage/low wages. They work long hours too, just to make ends meet. The reality is at the end of the day they barely have enough to cover the necessary bills, council tax, utilities, rent/mortage, food, clothes, toiletries etc. They simply don't have any money left for savings, in fact most short fall of their necessary outgoings. As for holidays, well they can forget that. Lets get real, and look at the bigger picture, some of these hard working peopke are struggling to say the least. Now with gas and electricity prices going up again this August, just in time for the winter months, it is going to get tougher for them.
A friend of mine who signs on having lost her job recently tells me that the dole money has gone up by a whole £2 recently, sigh! In my view the minimum wage is a disgrace and doesn't reflect the cost of living today one little bit.