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Am i entitled or penalised???
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To try and get back to the original query. OP - you probably won't be able to get any direct assistence for childcare costs, but have you asked your employer if they supply childcare vouchers - at least you will save the tax & NI (http://www.childcarevouchers.co.uk/Pages/Default.aspx)0
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He has children from a previous marriage that he pays for.What he earns covers his bills & there is nothing spare
Would this be the reason he earns £3500 "on paper" perchance?0 -
If you all read the orginal post I asked would I be entitled to CTC or WTC.
I did not ask for people to judge me or my partner or comment on my maternal instincts.
You do not know me.
The purpose of the forum is to ask questions which I did & many thanks for the PMs & useful responses.
Nor do you know me, or any other stay at home parent who comes onto this forum. However, you have managed to slate us as 'being paid by the taxpayer to stay at home and watch tv', and insinuating that there is no self respect in being a stay at home parent.
We did not ask you to come on here and judge us either. Yes, the purpose is to ask questions and seek advice. You have had the advice given by other posters - have your husband pack in his £2 per hour job and support you as a working parent by providing the needed child care for your children. That's the advice you've been given - you don't like it, fine - but don't put those of us who have done just that down either.0 -
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To try and get back to the original query. OP - you probably won't be able to get any direct assistence for childcare costs, but have you asked your employer if they supply childcare vouchers - at least you will save the tax & NI (http://www.childcarevouchers.co.uk/Pages/Default.aspx)
I've had an email from my employer asking if anybody wants to sign up to vouchers prior to the end of March, as apparently there are major changes to the program coming. It will remain the same as it is for those in the program now, but not so beneficial apparently after the end of March.
So anybody thinking about this option, might want to look into it rather quickly!0 -
Anxious mum I find your comment regarding me being not maternal hilarious!
You dont know me but you seem to think you do...maybe you should start telling peoples fortunes next!
You're more than welcome for the laugh - however, where you find my comment hilarious, I found some of yours downright obnoxious.
No I do not know you, nor you me - yet you feel it okay to blanket comments about various types of people yourself.
Fortune telling? Nah.....make much better money in my current position - but thanks for the thought
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My partner wants to work & if he finished work who & how would I pay for his other children & his personal bills?
He can't be paying much if he brings home a little less than £300pcm. Or is that after maintainance?
How much maintainance does he pay?0 -
Anxious mum why dont you re read the posts I have posted.
It clearly stated that I have no issue with stay at home mums who are supported financially by there partners(i dont actually give a toss but dont fancy getting pocket money from a man if I see a top I like...I prefer to be more self sufficent as I worked hard to get the job I have!)
What I do have an issue with is people who calculate that staying at home & claiming every benefit possible because they dont want to work.
My partner wants to work & if he finished work who & how would I pay for his other children & his personal bills?
Also you state you are a stay at home mum but then you state that your employer emailed you about childcare vouchers...???So you forgot work maybe!!!
Try reading other people's posts properly - I have stated I used to be a stay at home mum when kids were little and faced the exact issues you are facing........but now working.
You didn't quite put your original posts the way you describe above, if you had, I don't think anybody would've made comment on them.
His 'personal bills'.......I thought partners supported each other - so sorry - that one is totally alien to me. Ciao0
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