Reducing my working hours.

pizzle84

I currently work 37.5hrs/wk full time but want to reduce my hours down to 16hrs/wk. I take home about £800/mth and want to know will i get enough benefits to "replace" the loss of wages?? Im living with my other half who also works full time and we've got a 3yr old who goes to nursery full time, 5 days a week.

allconnected

Hi Pizzle 84, I'm the taxpayer who will, as well as supporting my disabled husband and two children with my wages, be paying from my taxes your benefits to enable you not to have to go to the effort of going to work quite so often.

If it wouldn't be too much trouble, perhaps you could let me know why you think I should be paying you not to work, as you obviously you feel you should be as well off working as not?

It's a genuine question - I'm really at a loss to understand why some people think the working population should pay for them to sit at home by choice.

I'd love to reduce my hours - but can't because I have responsibilities. I'd prefer those responsibilities not to include you - can you help?

Allconnected

pizzle84

I have also spent years paying for others to sit on their backsides drinking etc and doing nothing. Its your choice not to accept help that is there for you. Im not saying this is what im doing im just asking a simple question to try to see what ALL the choices are out there. I would like to reduce my hours because of medical reasons i just dont feel that i can work full time hours at the moment. Id appreciate people to reply with genuine HELPFUL replies rather that insulting ones that really aren't needed.

Googlewhacker

pizzle84 wrote: »

I have also spent years paying for others to sit on their backsides drinking etc and doing nothing. Its your choice not to accept help that is there for you. Im not saying this is what im doing im just asking a simple question to try to see what ALL the choices are out there. I would like to reduce my hours because of medical reasons i just dont feel that i can work full time hours at the moment. Id appreciate people to reply with genuine HELPFUL replies rather that insulting ones that really aren't needed.

Benefits are there to help people in need, if you need them then get them and you should look on the website www.entitledto.co.uk but they are not there as a way of life and the longer you stay out of the employment loop the harder it is for you to get a career

Also if 84 is when you were born you have hardly been paying in for a long time.

pizzle84

84 isn't when i was born so you shouldn't assume. The reason i want to reduce my hours is because of medical reasons and i just dont feel able to work full time at the moment. In my time away from work id like to go back to college and do some kind of course towards a career. At the moment i have no way of progression in my work and feel like im at a dead end. I need/want to do something to make my life better and i dont want to be stuck doing my job for the rest of my life.I came on here thinking that people would help answer my questions but instead you all see to be very close minded and unable to see how others are suffering in their lives. I do not want to sit on my !!!! spending everyone elses money on drink and drugs like most people seem to do. I still want to work, i could have come on here and said "i want to leave work completely" but i dont. I just want a bit of time away from work to make my life better for me and my son.

Wintermute

pizzle84 wrote: »

Id appreciate people to reply with genuine HELPFUL replies rather that insulting ones that really aren't needed.

I don't see anything insulting about Allconnected's post, I think they make an extremely good point. Living off the state shouldn't be seen as a valid choice, why should the government supply you with over half your income because you want to work less? Benefit should be seen as a last resort, if you want to work less try and find a higher paying job or way to boost your income from home while working part time.

dmg24

pizzle84 wrote: »

84 isn't when i was born so you shouldn't assume. The reason i want to reduce my hours is because of medical reasons and i just dont feel able to work full time at the moment. In my time away from work id like to go back to college and do some kind of course towards a career. At the moment i have no way of progression in my work and feel like im at a dead end. I need/want to do something to make my life better and i dont want to be stuck doing my job for the rest of my life.I came on here thinking that people would help answer my questions but instead you all see to be very close minded and unable to see how others are suffering in their lives. I do not want to sit on my !!!! spending everyone elses money on drink and drugs like most people seem to do. I still want to work, i could have come on here and said "i want to leave work completely" but i dont. I just want a bit of time away from work to make my life better for me and my son.

I can't see a medical reason there?

Spendless

Will totally depend on your household income as to what benefits you get and whether it will make up the loss of your income.

You are aware aren't you that new rules are coming in for claiming WTC in 2 adult households where the criteria is that you need to be working 24 hours between you with one doing at least 16 per week. Just if your OH lost their job you would not qualify for this if you dropped to 16 hours.

Loanranger

The OP has two concurrent threads running on exactly the same title.

Triker

I think you're probably best looking at http://www.turn2us.org.uk/benefits_search.aspx to see what you may qualify for at the moment.

However with the sweeping changes to the benefit system nothing is cast in stone.

Feelings are running high at the mo re benefits and many people feel aggrieved because they have no choice to reduce hours. If you can make good use in order to further your career prospects then I'd say go for it but please be mindful that any benefits potentially available now may not be there for much longer.

Indie_Kid

How can you be well enough to go to college and not work?