Lucy Hooker
BBC Business Reporter
Dylan Caulkin
Dylan Caulkin would like the government to provide more help to young people like him
Wednesday, the Chancellor will give an update on her plans for the economy.
The government has promised to increase growth, which should mean a higher salary, more jobs and more expenses in services such as NHS, education and transport.
Rachel Reeves will share the latest official prospects, which should say that the British economy will increase by 1% this year, rather than the 2% forecasts.
And she will have to explain how she intends to take up the big challenges she faces when she delivers her spring declaration.
These challenges are also felt on the ground, in the daily life of people.
People contacted the BBC by our voice, your news from the BBC to tell us what they feel in the coming months and the plans they have to tackle the obstacles they face.
“I change work to stay afloat”
“I work on payroll,” explains Dylan Caulkin. “If I have a tire that appears, I count on credit.”
The teaching assistant, who lives with his parents near Truro, Cornwall, is about to create a new job as a support worker for people with learning difficulties.
At £ 12.24 per hour, his salary will only be just above the minimum wage level which increases in April. But it is more that he does not reach his current role.
“I’m very excited,” he said. The possibility of overtime also means that the change will have a “massive impact” on its finances.
He pays his parents £ 160 per month of rent and contributes to food costs, which are higher for him because he follows a gluten -free diet. His car – a necessity, he said – costs around £ 500 per month to run. And he has a small amount of credit card debt he is currently trying to erase.
He sometimes has £ 100 at the end of the month for his expenses.
“I’m very lucky to have family around me,” he said. “I could not survive without them.”
He would like to see the government bring more help to young people like him.
“In the near future, I’m trying to move with my partner, but it’s so expensive.”
“We earn £ 80,000 and buy our dream house”
What is then happening with interest rates is what matters most to Ellie Richardson and Billy Taylor.
They found their dream house for £ 350,000 last year, but the sale was delayed and will now be finished before the rise in stamp duties at the end of this month, which cost them an additional £ 2,500.
“You have to ride with the punches,” explains Ellie, who works in sports pr. But they hope that mortgage rates are not also about to increase.
She and Billy, a manufacturer, have commissioned between the houses of her parents and her parents in Essex for three years.
“We worked very hard to save as much as possible for this house,” she said. “We are quite adjusted on it.”
They have a joint income of around £ 80,000 and they have a mortgage offer which would see them paying around £ 1,200 per month.
But if the purchase of the house is delayed for too long, they can end up having to ask for a new mortgage.
“The silver lining is that if we finish later in the year, then hope that mortgage rates could be lower,” she said.
“ I study but I am not too sick for a part -time job ”
The Worcester student has a combination of health problems, including pots, which increases her heart rate very quickly when she gets up and can lead to a loss of balance and consciousness.
“I vanished myself several times a day, I am constantly in immense pain. I dislocate my fingers, my elbows, my shoulders and my knees a lot.
“Most students work part-time,” she says. “I was deemed unfit to work.”
Elspeth receives a total of around £ 1,200 per month thanks to a student maintenance loan and inability and invalidity services.
She abandons her current course – nursing care – because she cannot manage the quarters of the hospital. She wants to start a new course, in astrophysics, in the fall.
But she says that her parents cannot support her financially, so if her advantages are reduced, she will have to abandon this ambition.
“I have more expenses than the average student,” she said.
Currently, she has nothing at the end of the month, after spending about £ 800 in rent and another good piece on her heart support dog, Podge.
His food costs £ 90 per month, there are veterinarian bills, and recently he needed a new harness that helps him communicate to him, including when she is about to vanish. It costs £ 1,200.
“Currently, all my money suits him,” she said.
‘I give myself a drop in wages of 20%’
The businessman Lincoln Smith believes that consumer confidence is the lowest that she has been for 15 years.
He owns and directs Custom Heat, a plumbing company based in rugby. The increase in the cost of living noted that its customers have reduced the annual services of boilers and other things. In addition to that, taxes for companies are increasing in April.
“It makes you shrink your ambitions, makes you think:” Do not replace the people who leave. “”
The company does not adopt apprentices this year and even got rid of the office cleaner.
Lincoln himself takes a 20% drop in salary to help balance books for the next exercise.
He will earn £ 125,000, while his wife, who also works for the company, earns £ 45,000.
“It seems a lot,” he admits, but the cut will always mean lifestyle changes. “When you earn a salary, you define your expenses in office.”
With a mortgage of £ 3,000 per month, they are already at a “balance,” he says.
“We have not reserved a vacation this year. We certainly do not leave,” he says.
But if that is not enough, it will examine the move to reduce the mortgage.
It is a bit overwhelming, he says, because it is the only house that his sons, aged seven and four, knew.
“I know they are” problems of the first world “,” he says. “You just have to do what you have to do.”
“ I receive £ 800 per month as a student – it’s tight ”
Radhika Gupta thinks that Rachel Reeves is doing Wednesday, she should not reduce health or education expenses.
Derry student in Northern Ireland is in the third year of a five -year -old medical diploma at Queen’s University in Belfast.
“One thing that worries me is how many doctors want to leave,” she said.
“The consensus is that it is not worth practicing medicine in the United Kingdom because of the little that you are paid. And you find yourself with a lot of student debts.
“I don’t think the government really understands the challenges.”
Despite what she considers under-funded services and professional exhaustion, she wants to work in England after graduating.
But you have to do more to finance and improve medical training, she says.
The other thing she would like to see more money spent is transport, which is one of her greatest expenses at around £ 75 per month, in part because unreliable public transport sometimes means that she takes a taxi in the hospital.
Her parents and maintenance loan give her about £ 800 per month, which she completes with tutoring and occasional hospitality. His rent is £ 600. There are additional costs like its scrubs – it needs several sets – at £ 35 per set.
“Things are quite tight,” she said.
“I receive £ 280 per week. I am concerned about reductions in services for long -term patients’
“He doesn’t seem to have something good on the horizon,” said Malcolm Hindley, a retired cleaner from Liverpool.
A widower, he lives with his daughter, who “does all around the house” and takes care of him and his disabled daughter.
He owns his own house, but has trouble fending his £ 200 state pension per week, plus an attendance allowance of around £ 80 per week.
He needs a car to go to stores and medical appointments, and has just been in a car accident that left him a neck splint, in addition to existing mobility problems.
He will listen to Wednesday for more details on the benefits of benefits for long -term patients and the disabled.
Losing the payment of winter fuel was difficult, he said, because he feels the cold more aging. Now he worries what could go.
“The way this government works, it just seems to hit the poorest. What will they take away from us?”
He doesn’t have much left at the end of the month, but what he’s going on on ice cream and candy for grandchildren.
“When you see their faces, it’s great,” he said.
