Staying home to look after kids - can I claim anything?

princess_leia_3

cw18 wrote: »

I think the OP has done that....

She was just wondering if there was another option open to her other than returning to work herself, as she's clearly seen a lot about the entitlements of single parents recently.

Yes, thank you, Obviously someone is bored and wants to stir - which is why I nearly didnt posting for advice, but that is what this board is for after all!

[Deleted User]

Yes the board is for exactly that,but some of us do get abit annoyed when people ask for advice then go onto compare people who are in completly different situations with themsleves
As a point of interest almost 70% of ALL single parents do work !

Fonda_Cox

woodbine wrote: »

Yes the board is for exactly that,but some of us do get abit annoyed when people ask for advice then go onto compare people who are in completly different situations with themsleves
As a point of interest almost 70% of ALL single parents do work !

:T

Well said

Blackpool_Saver

Everyones circumstances are different, come on folks let's not keep rowing, every time I come on here now there is aggro, raising 3 kids under 5 is hard work.
I am a lone parent of a disabled child and I don't get IS because i am a student, clearly not all lone parents get IS (or whatever they are calling it now) :rolleyes:

Blackpool_Saver

woodbine wrote: »

As a point of interest almost 70% of ALL single parents do work !

Yes and I do it for no pay to support my degree

skintchick

woodbine wrote: »

Yes the board is for exactly that,but some of us do get abit annoyed when people ask for advice then go onto compare people who are in completly different situations with themsleves
As a point of interest almost 70% of ALL single parents do work !

I think when people moan it is about the system, NOT about single parents per se.

Felicity

I am really shocked about this board and some peoples attitude.

We saved a long time before having a baby, I chose not to go back to work and therefore we only have one income in the household. We therefore have to go without sometimes (and / or (shock horror) use our hard earned savings).

It is my choice, I do not expect anybody else to subsidise me, why the heck should anybody subsidise my lifestyle choices?

Likewise, I also do not expect some of our family income (husbands wages) to go to taxes to subsidise other people who choose not to work.

I would love to have loads of children, I really would but we simply cannot afford to.

Sorry to rant, it is not just this particular OP but many others that I have read recently that have irked me a little.

We pay taxes into a welfare state for people in GENUINE need of money (because they cannot work for whatever reason), not because people choose to have children and choose not to work!

Felicity

Put another way OP, if I had more children than you and my husband earned less than yours, do you think it would be fair if I took some of your households income into our household because I was perfectly capable of, but unwilling to work?

That seems to be the question that you are asking me!

calleyw

princess_leia wrote: »

My husband works 41 hrs a week and earns approx £15k (just above the wtc limit )

Maybe I am being a bit thick here but I was under the impression that WTC limit for a couple with no children is £17200 working more than 30 hours a week.

So how can earning 15K as a couple with three kids not get any WTC even just a few pounds surely would help with getting things like HB/LHA and CTB and free prescriptions etc.

Or does CTC get counted as household income for WTC.

Yours


Calley

princess_leia_3

[quote=Felicity;16363597

We pay taxes into a welfare state for people in GENUINE need of money (because they cannot work for whatever reason), not because people choose to have children and choose not to work![/quote]

Alot of the single parents it mentioned on the news just chose not to work because they did not want to not because they couldn't

For the last time, I do not want to sponge money off anyone, I wanted to check that there was no benefits that I would get (like WTC or something similar I had not heard of) So I am sorry if you feel like I want to take your money that is not the case!
I am not slating single parents - it could well happen to me, I do however think that if single parents get funded to stay at home then this should apply to other parents too! I know alot of single parents work - I did not state anywhere that they all just claimed money, that is not what my post is about!
Thats the last I will say as I came here for help and apart from a few nice polite replies to my question all I have got is abuse for no reason what so ever!