@financewithafshin: POV: You finally get a job and think you can afford to move out 😭😂 UK minimum wage in 2026: 40 hours a week = £2,203 a month BEFORE deductions. After Income Tax, NI and pension? 💷 Around £1,810 take-home. Then reality hits: 🏠 Rent: £1,000 💡 Bills: £295 🚌 Bus: £105 🛒 Food: £250 🧴 Essentials: £55 👕 Other basics: £45 🏦 Emergency savings: £60 LEFT OVER: £0 💀 And that’s WITH your parents still paying your phone bill 😭 Imagine working full time and having nothing left after basic living costs. These are illustrative costs for someone renting alone in England. Actual expenses and deductions vary. Could you afford to move out on minimum wage in your area? Tell me your city and what a one bedroom flat costs there 👇 Not financial advice. #MinimumWage2026 #UKCostOfLiving #MovingOutUK #UKMoney #MoneyTok
If you’re on minimum wage, you HAVE to be living with someone else and share rent
2026-10-31 18:18:28
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Foxy📮 :
why move out immediately after getting a job? 😅
2026-11-11 10:38:32
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lemonhazedank420 :
found a 2 bed flat in scotland for 500 quid a month
2026-11-11 13:59:07
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Audacity ༽ :
Minimum wage and The Living Wage are two different wages.
2026-11-01 13:05:50
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___Alyson__ :
My food shop is only £60 a month Wdym 250 😭
2026-11-11 09:47:51
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Trixnglz :
they need to increase the personal allowance, if you're on minimum wage you shouldn't have to pay so much tax
2026-10-31 15:13:49
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Ivy Rain 💜🖤 :
it's called minimum wage because it's the minimum the employer is allowed to pay you. nothing to do with minimum requirements to live
2026-11-11 12:52:45
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Eyey :
And if you need to own a car, you're basically going in debt
2026-10-31 09:36:13
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Jake :
people have never, and should never, move out on minimum wage
2026-10-31 23:10:19
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Harold Godwinson :
Tax is literally strangling this country into a slow death
2026-11-03 01:34:12
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Bubblesx :
And then they put minimum wage up only to increase all the groceries again.. so people who were on slightly above minimum wage and struggling, suddenly got no pay rise but a cost of living rise 👍
2026-11-01 17:40:23
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JHamilton187 :
Big issue is the personal tax allowance. far too low
2026-11-01 09:04:24
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Mel :
I want a divorce but I am stuck because I won’t be able to afford to live by myself.
2026-10-31 22:13:49
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mark macey :
minimum wage has raised by 60% since 2019, we all going to agree at some point soon that raising minimum wage doesnt help anyone?
2026-10-31 12:41:16
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fairfieldfencer :
Technically, it DOES. You just have nothing left for anything else.
2026-11-02 17:11:23
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Bobby :
At the end of the month realistically it’s -£100
2026-11-01 12:26:58
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BeithirBand :
Making more money than i’ve ever made before but feels like i’m worse off wtf can we do
2026-11-02 10:19:24
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user6247958092531 :
this was the 1st month I hit my overdraft in 20 years. im so tired of living pay check to pay check. I save nothing
2026-11-01 19:52:13
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Hex Rag :
Minimum wage getting scarily close to my earnings
2026-10-31 23:07:28
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Kelli Baker :
because gas, electric and food are luxuries now
2026-11-02 17:49:58
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TsGn02 :
You quite literally just described how it meets the minimum requirements for living, and then chose to end this video by claiming that it doesn't 😂
2026-10-31 15:08:39
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Sighorney :
You literally proved how it peered all the monimum requirements
2026-10-31 11:07:14
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Dashne Dash :
Wow you guys even get 2,200 monthly??? 😩
2026-10-31 15:58:42
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Alex :
40 hours gets me £2040 before tax and just over £1740 after tax
2026-10-31 12:33:45
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Gumbz91 :
as I tell my adult nieces and nephews, living alone is a privilege people can no longer afford. house shares for everyone unfortunately.
2026-11-01 21:02:48
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