YOU HAVE YOUR SAY
EVERY week, Money Mail receives hundreds of your emails about our stories. Here are some from our article on how to cope with a cut to your income: I WORRY about my financial future. If you don’t own your home and you don’t have a good pension, how on earth are you meant to be able to pay your rent and other essential outgoings? State pensions may not exist in the future.
M. G., Wateringbury, Kent. IT REALLY concerns me that some people, despite working for a number of years, have no savings. No one is suggesting you should live like a hermit, but it’s all about choices. Swap your all-inclusive TV package for Freeview or Netflix.
M. T., by email. I’VE saved a fortune on petrol by not eating out or going to the pub. Sky has reduced my payments and the sunny weather means I have saved on my heating as well. All in all, I think that’s 20 pc of my income.
R. N., Grantham, Lincs. WE ARE lucky, as we still have two incomes coming into the house, but we are cutting right back. I cringe at the amount of frivolous purchases we made before March. We have made saving the pennies and paying all our bills the priority now.
G. D., Glasgow. AS A pensioner, my outgoings have shot up recently. This year’s council tax bill has increased significantly and the cost of food has also risen. I can’t find a cheap electricity deal and I don’t have a mobile phone, so I can’t save money there.
M. C., by email. IF YOU are self-employed you may not receive your grant until June. How are you meant to pay your rent or mortgage — or even just put food on the table?
K. D., by email.