Budget 2010: Budget 2010: Child tax credits up for one and two-year-olds

seven-day-weekend

emweaver wrote: »

you dont get money for nursery when they are 3 at all!


also it does go by income those on lower incomes do get more if your on 25k a year you will only get the basic amount

Don't you get nursery vouchers?

seven-day-weekend

In the 'olden days' you got Child Benefit and that's all. No State money for childrens' savings. No State money for child-minding. No tax credits.

You looked after your children yourself.

JimmyTheWig

liam8282 wrote: »

Some people have an answer for everything.

If you mean me...

If one partner works during the day 9-5, the other partner could get even just a part time job say working at Tesco 6-10. At least that way you would be going someway to supporting your own family rather than depending on benefits.

I can understand why people choose not to work, as they are better off for not working and claiming benefits, but does that make it right?

... then I think you need to re-read what I've written because I've said time and time again I'm not talking about depending on benefits!

Indie_Kid

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

In the 'olden days' you got Child Benefit and that's all. No State money for childrens' savings. No State money for child-minding. No tax credits.

You looked after your children yourself.

This is the way it should be. Why do they money for childrens' savings? parents should do that themselves.

seven-day-weekend

As for working families, as someone has pointed out, you do not need to rely on paid childcare if you are a couple.

One works days, one works nights.
One works weekdays, one works weekends
One works in the day, one does twilight shift
Or if you can manage on the equivalent of one wage, one works the first half of the week and one works the second half
Or one works full-time and the other stays at home
or one works full-time and the other has a small part-time job such as a lollipop lady or dinner lady (term-time only). (My husband and I did this for years).

You do not always need paid childcare.

Indie_Kid

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

One works days, one works nights.

My parents did this. Yes, it meant during the holdiays (when mum didn't work) being out of the house every day; but it worked.

krisskross

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

As for working families, as someone has pointed out, you do not need to rely on paid childcare if you are a couple.

One works days, one works nights.
One works weekdays, one works weekends
One works in the day, one does twilight shift
Or if you can manage on the equivalent of one wage, one works the first half of the week and one works the second half
Or one works full-time and the other stays at home
or one works full-time and the other has a small part-time job such as a lollipop lady or dinner lady (term-time only). (My husband and I did this for years).

You do not always need paid childcare.

We did this as well. Husband worked full time days returning home at 5.30pm. I left for my 6-10pm job 10 minutes later. We were like ships that passed in the night, but needs must. No huge amounts in benefits in those days.

When they were all at full time school I worked night shifts while my husband carried on with days. Our children, our choice to have them, our responsibility to support them.

JimmyTheWig

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

if you can manage on the equivalent of one wage...
... one works full-time and the other stays at home

That's what we do, but various people here seem to have a problem with that. They seem to think that my wife and I should, between us, work all hours and barely see each other just to be financially better off. What's the point in having more money if we don't get the chance to spend it together?

Indie_Kid

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

That's what we do, but various people here seem to have a problem with that. They seem to think that my wife and I should, between us, work all hours and barely see each other just to be financially better off. What's the point in having more money if we don't get the chance to spend it together?

Well, that's what most people did before child tax credits. Why should you get more money for having kids?

seven-day-weekend

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

That's what we do, but various people here seem to have a problem with that. They seem to think that my wife and I should, between us, work all hours and barely see each other just to be financially better off. What's the point in having more money if we don't get the chance to spend it together?

I certainly don't have a problem with it, provided there are no extra tax credits to subsidise it (there were no extra Benefits at all in my day).

I stayed at home for four years and then went to Uni part-time, then was a lolliop lady until I went back to work full-time when my son was 15. My husband worked full-time and we supported ourselves. We took in a lodger for some of the time to create more income.