MSE Pregnancy Club XIV

Nicki

Sarah_Joanne wrote: »

Nicki I'm amazed the hospital put the call through too! I would have been screaming obscenities in the direction of the phone I think! :mad:

It is reported that I said to the switchboard operator: "Tell him to pi$$ off, I'm busy!". But my OH took the phone at that point and spoke to FIL and conveyed a similar message but in rather more diplomatic language. Which may be the reason why they stayed and looked after DS for the next 10 days while I was ill in hospital after the birth...

kindofagilr

Glamazon wrote: »

u checked out child tax credits - everyone gets them I think.

I don't get working tax credits - we earn just over £50K at the moment but that will drop in October if OH doesn't get another job!

We earn 35k a year and according to tax credit website we only get £15 a week (thats child tax credits and working tax credits) with baby being in nursery once a week at £25 a day

Nicki

Glamazon wrote: »

u checked out child tax credits - everyone gets them I think.

I thought they were means tested . We've never got them, and DS is 9 and DD is 8, but DH is a high earner.

jennynoo

I thought you would get some child tax credit if your joint income is below £60k. Also you get child benefit.

aless02

I thought child tax credits were for everyone - not sure? The calculator shows we'll get a lovely £21/wk (woohoo) for CTC and definitely don't qualify for WTC (gross about £45k for the household as well), but DH is commission-based so this can vary). Hate things like this as DH & I do struggle some months, but aren't 'poor' enough for tax credits/benefits but not earning enough to do much with it!

thanks for the link, nancmat!

eta: looks like CB is for everyone no matter what (?) and it's CTC that is means-tested. It's hard for me to keep track of all these different things!

Sarah_Joanne

So do you only get tax credits if you pay for childcare?? We won't be paying for any as me and Joe work opposite hours, but we have joint income of only £30k so I guess that makes us pretty low earners

jennynoo

faye6174 wrote: »

Can any one offer any advice about swine flu? A girl i work with has been confirmed as infected, we have open plan office, small company etc. I don't want to be over dramatic about it, but i WILL not be a matyr to the job and put my baby at risk. Should i be going home?

I got told that any infected people should stay at home so going into work isn't a problem - I think it's only contagious when people have symptoms. However we had a week when three people contracted it and just in case it was spreading I got told to work at home for a day - they could only offer me this because my job is one where I can work at home, otherwise they would have sent me to a different site.

nancmat

Sarah I think you get WTC even if you dont pay for childcare but wok more than 30hrs.. it all seems to depend on salary though, earn over 40k as a couple and you seem to get basic child allowance £20 a week.. I'm going to ring up and check though, get my facts straight.

Glamazon

faye6174 wrote: »

Can any one offer any advice about swine flu? A girl i work with has been confirmed as infected, we have open plan office, small company etc. I don't want to be over dramatic about it, but i WILL not be a matyr to the job and put my baby at risk. Should i be going home?

If she's been in work then you have already been in contact so if you're going to get it you'll start displaying symptoms over the next 3 days - I would go to work and as soon as anyone else displays symptoms tell them to go home. You can only catch off someone who has symptoms - Can u ask to be moved to a side office?

I'm in a surgery and have had 3 people off with it all of whom I've been in contact with and I spent 2 days at the anti-viral centre in the same room as people colelcting Tamiflu for infected people.

Nicki wrote: »

I thought they were means tested . We've never got them, and DS is 9 and DD is 8, but DH is a high earner.

Myabe they are, thats why I put I think. I know we get them works out at about £20 a week but think after a year drops to £10.

Think entitledto.com is best website to see what u can get!
It all confuses me!

Fitzio

faye6174 wrote: »

Can any one offer any advice about swine flu? A girl i work with has been confirmed as infected, we have open plan office, small company etc. I don't want to be over dramatic about it, but i WILL not be a matyr to the job and put my baby at risk. Should i be going home?

Faye, I agree with Jenny. As long as the girl isn't at work, you should be going in. If she is at work (which if she has flu, I can't see how she could be) then don't go in and make a serious complaint to your organisation for allowing it!