Any Idea what to do?

moomoomama27

The way you have to look at it is this :

No you are not entitled to anything else in the way of benefits, so you have 2 choices, you can sit and whinge about it, complaining the system is unfair! Or you can step up and get a job that fits around your family! You are lucky in the respect that you are able to fit hours around your wifes hours, evenings and weekends are more than possible.

I'm sorry, and this will sound blunt, but it does seem to me that you are making excuses NOT to work, having children is not an excuse, even less of one when you have a partner and are able to do hours that wouldn't be available to a single parent. Also where you would only need 'top-up' hours, there are plenty of jobs open to you, cleaning, shop work, bar work, which have quite high employment rates for lower hours, as these are the hours people don;t want as much as they are often under 16.

Lizz01

spaceman1 wrote: »

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?

Hi Spaceman

I don't agree with the 'nothing else you are entitled to' advice. Your tax credits for this year have been assessed on your last years income but if you call the helpline and tell them what your expected income will be this year, they will reassess you and start paying you more within a few weeks.

ajones28

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Most 11 and 12 year olds are out of the house for a minimum of 7 hours a day - surely that's plenty of time to catch up with your sleep?[/QUOTE

Just had to double check that both me and you are reading the same. the reason I say this is because the OP stated his children are almost 2 and almost 5, not 11 and 12. Slight, in fact no, HUGE difference; a 1 and a 4 year old can hardly look after themselves can they?
Anyway just to add to my last post, I do understand what everyone is saying that he should work around his wifes work and sleep when the children are asleep. OK my husband and I did it for years where I worked in the daytime and he worked nights. It wasn't ideal but we had to do it. The difference with me though is that my children were 9 and 12 when he first started, so both at school. How he would have done it with no/ very little sleep I don't know. Its an accident waiting to happen, in my opinion. What if the person is working with machinery or driving on a night shift - and with no sleep at all, all day. I would not like to think that there were taxi drivers driving around our streets falling asleep at the wheel! One last point as well, the OP simply asked for some advice. I didn't see one single sentence where he complained about wanting more benefits. Neither did I see a whinge about not wanting to work. I took it to mean that he needed advice on such things as money saving or perhaps advice on how he could earn money working from home. He just needs to find a way around his situation. Making him feel like he is not worthy of a decent bit of advice is not going to help him is it. Unless I am mistaken this website is for advice is it not!!!

OP I really do hope you manage to find something. I don't personally think it would be possible for you to safely work at night if looking after 2 small children in the day time. Perhaps working from home would be an option. Be careful of the scammers though as the Home-working market is full of them.
Good luck, I really hope you get your situation sorted.

Jowo_2

ajones28 wrote: »

..One last point as well, the OP simply asked for some advice. I didn't see one single sentence where he complained about wanting more benefits. Neither did I see a whinge about not wanting to work. I took it to mean that he needed advice on such things as money saving or perhaps advice on how he could earn money working from home. He just needs to find a way around his situation.

It's a shame if some posters didn't stick to forum rules that demand that they are nice to posters. The OP should check his entitlements on the Entitled to website.

But I did detect that the OP was hoping for some magic bullet to resolve their income difficulties that didn't include employment as he came up with self-imposed obstacles and rejected the solutions.

Given that he was averse to taking up employment for the next few years, it's hard to see how he's going to find a way round his situation if only one adult in the household is going to work part-time. Plus they elected to prioritise the payment of a debt in a lump sum rather than arrange its repayment on better terms to allow them to spend it on living expenses and therefore this could come under deprivation of capital rules for means tested benefits.

Jomo

You say you paid off your debt?

Surely your monthly payments have either reduced or stopped completely so you shouldn't have as much to pay out?

dmg24

ajones28 wrote: »

Just had to double check that both me and you are reading the same. the reason I say this is because the OP stated his children are almost 2 and almost 5, not 11 and 12. Slight, in fact no, HUGE difference; a 1 and a 4 year old can hardly look after themselves can they?

Perhaps you should learn to read? ONW was clearly replying to someone with children of ages 11 and 12, not the OP.