Why is my friend only entitled to £16 a week tax cred??

Loopy_Girl

missk_ensington wrote: »

you cant expect people to work 70 hours a week, and bring up a family, and keep on top of housework

That's why condoms were invented love. Clearly can't cope with one child so to bring another when she is still learning is just madness....or stupid


(cannot believe I am answering this person with a sensible answer):rotfl: :rotfl:

Got2change

Could I ask how the devil your friend finds the stamina to cope with her schedule/commitments?
Have I got it right -
Full time Univeristy student nurse(Diploma not BSc?) - and -
Placements 35 hours a week - and -
Working 20 hours a week - shifts? - and -
Pre-schooler - and -
Pregnant.

Blimey; makes me tired just thinking about it.
I am just on the verge of withdrawing my acceptance to study for BSc (Hons) Nursing due to logistics/finances - so am very interested to know how people do it (and I have no-one else to take care of...).

missk_ensington

Loopy_Girl wrote: »

errr why don't you since you are doing that too...and since she doesn't have a PC then tell her to get one and then piggy back a WI-FI connection...just like you too

IN FACT...why don't you and your friend morph into one.....oh hang on, you already have:rolleyes:

My friend does have a PC but she didnt know about this site - not that I'm going to point it out to her cos if she sees all these posts about how she shouldnt be getting pregnant and get off her !!! she'll probably burst into tears. And piggy-back only refers to a communal network not just an illegal one, I often use the uni network, or many bars and cafes here are unsecured free Wifi's making it untraceable. I wouldnt have a clue where to even start trying to access someones secure wifi

ged1980

!!!!!! im missing eastenders :mad:






ps: while im here popcorn for sale £1.25

GlasweJen

do you have any with toffee on it?

missk_ensington

Got2change wrote: »

Could I ask how the devil your friend finds the stamina to cope with her schedule/commitments?
Have I got it right -
Full time Univeristy student nurse(Diploma not BSc?) - and -
Placements 35 hours a week - and -
Working 20 hours a week - shifts? - and -
Pre-schooler - and -
Pregnant.

Blimey; makes me tired just thinking about it.
I am just on the verge of withdrawing my acceptance to study for BSc (Hons) Nursing due to logistics/finances - so am very interested to know how people do it (and I have no-one else to take care of...).

This is correct. I dont know if its a Diploma or a BSc, I just know its 3 years and she's in 1st year, its something to do with psychiatric nursing or something. Not entirely sure. She chooses to work the extra 20 hours in shifts as they need the money and yes has one 4 year old son, and is 10 weeks pregnant with another. Obv hubby works full time as well. They barely see each other as it is, they're both at work during the day and then she's off out at night working, and he sometimes swaps a weekday for a weekend to ease the childc are burden...probably how the marriage works so well!

ged1980

GlasweJen wrote: »

do you have any with toffee on it?

£1.55 with toffee

tinkerbell84

I still wanna know about the tops! Help a big b00bed woman out, will you?

msmicawber

missk_ensington wrote: »

She is doing a nursing degree so has to do 35-37 hours a week on placement, then she work in the hospital 20 hours as an auxillary or something similar, so its related to her degree kind of. As she works nights (as well as days) he cant work as well, or they'd be spending their earnings on more childcare.

Re his job, I think he has already landed on his feet with his current job as I dont think he has any qualifications and to be getting £14,000 for an unskilled manual job is already pretty generous. I think there is a cut off of how much you can do, even in the face of adversity you cant expect people to work 70 hours a week, and bring up a family, and keep on top of housework... it just isn't suitainable

I asked why he can't work a second job instead of her since she's pregnant. I agree it isn't sustainable - I find it tiring to work a 38 hour week (and that's only term-time) while studying, bringing up 2 children and doing all the housework and gardening and whatnot. I've been doing it for 10 years (well, only studying for the past 4) and I'm knackered. You seem to manage to study full-time, work part-time, do up houses, skate, go out, etc. etc. despite having a dicky ticker, so I think you're best placed to advise them.

Spendless

Hi Miss K - i always find your threads urmmmm entertaining.;)

Re- your friend, yes that will be right. A few thousand more and she will get the family element of tax credits. That's £545 p.a around £10ish per week, that covers a broad income roughly from £25K to £50K. It's not so long ago though that they didn't exist at all.