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spaceman1
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Hello all i am a full time dad of 2 one almost 5 and other almost 2 my misses works 30hr's and brings home about 12grand a year we were fine untill she had a large pay out in work last year which took her wage up to 20K now our working tax cred has stopped and our child tax cred is about 78 a week i cant claim anything as the misses works over 24hr's now thing's are hard any ideas what we can do?
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no other benefits will be payable. Can you not get a job also?0
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Its little hard when one child is in part time school(untill Sept) and the other is home with me got no one to mind the children.0
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Can you get a job around your wife's hours? Suppose she does her 30 hours during the day time, you could get an evening or weekend job.Here I go again on my own....0
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Could you get a childminder?!0
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Sorry, I don't have kids so don't really understand, but how does her earning more money mean that you have less overall???Bank Loans: [STRIKE]£25000[/STRIKE] £0- Barclay Card 14%: [STRIKE]£2500[/STRIKE] £0- Student Loan: [STRIKE]£12,500[/STRIKE] £0
Current total [STRIKE]£40,000[/STRIKE] £0:j (100% PAID OFF)0 -
So your income last year was an unexpected £8K more than normal. Did you not realise at the time that this would have an effect on your means tested benefits - after all, these are based on your income.
While the income was an additional £8K, did you lose more than £8K in benefits? I can't see where you are worse off?0 -
Wont get a childminder as tobe truthful i find it hard to trust peeps with my kids.
Not too sure how it works but seems to me no incentive to better our selfs if in the long run you get a kick in the teeth for it.
She wont be able to earn that much again.0 -
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Wont get a childminder as tobe truthful i find it hard to trust peeps with my kids.
Not too sure how it works but seems to me no incentive to better our selfs if in the long run you get a kick in the teeth for it.
She wont be able to earn that much again.
You'll be trusting the school with your kids. Why not an experienced and qualified childcare provider?All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.0 -
Wont get a childminder as tobe truthful i find it hard to trust peeps with my kids.
Not too sure how it works but seems to me no incentive to better our selfs if in the long run you get a kick in the teeth for it.
She wont be able to earn that much again.
So is it just for last year that she earned that?
Was it a one off bonus payment or a big pay rise for the year?0
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