Benefits help for Mum + 3 children returning to UK

McKneff

To be honest, if you can stay in Australia, then do your damndest to do that. Remember all the things that you were looking forward to before you went.

By far it would be a better life for both yu and your children and their future.

England is going further and further downhill.

Living here is really really expensive, Rents, petrol, food is rocketing all the time.

Services are being cut, schools are losing funding.

Good luck

Downunderdolphin

McKneff wrote: »

To be honest, if you can stay in Australia, then do your damndest to do that. Remember all the things that you were looking forward to before you went.

By far it would be a better life for both yu and your children and their future.

England is going further and further downhill.

Living here is really really expensive, Rents, petrol, food is rocketing all the time.

Services are being cut, schools are losing funding.

Good luck[/QUOTE

Thanks for the honesty. hope we can stay too affording the weekly rental is a big worry for me here. Just trying to weigh up where we would manage better.

AnxiousMum

Ditto what McKneff said!

DaisyFlower

It would make more sense for you to stay there. You can have your ex pay support for the children and share the childcare (be it actual care or costs) and work over there. Their economy is likely to be far better than ours so you probably have more chance of finding work there especially if you havent worked in a while.

Jowo_2

McKneff wrote: »

Also I would check the tennancy laws, as far as I know, and I am quite happy to be corrected but I believe landlords have to give 2 months notice to quit.

If the tenants have a fixed term contract without a break-clause, they are entitled to stay there the entire period - notice issued by the landlord is invalid. There's nothing to stop the landlord requesting an early surrender but the tenants don't have to comply.

If the tenants have a periodic tenancy (which automatically takes place after a fixed term contract expires and a new one isn't signed), then if the rental period is monthly (they pay monthly) then the landlord must issue them with 2 months notice. This notice has to be timed so that it expires with the rental period so if the rental period has just taken place when it's issued, it will be closer to 3 months before the landlord can get possession.

A landlord generally can't get a tenant out with a month's notice issued at any point during their tenancy.

Oldernotwiser

DaisyFlower wrote: »

It would make more sense for you to stay there. You can have your ex pay support for the children and share the childcare (be it actual care or costs) and work over there. Their economy is likely to be far better than ours so you probably have more chance of finding work there especially if you havent worked in a while.

And, of course, any contact with the children will be difficult from the other side of the world.

OP, do you own a property in Oz?

McKneff

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

And, of course, any contact with the children will be difficult from the other side of the world.

OP, do you own a property in Oz?

Thanks for the honesty. hope we can stay too affording the weekly rental is a big worry for me here. Just trying to weigh up where we would manage better

Downunderdolphin

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

And, of course, any contact with the children will be difficult from the other side of the world.

OP, do you own a property in Oz?

No I wish we did own property here. It is just so expensive!

Jowo_2

If any of your issues include homesickness and not settling in very well to Australia, a bit of a culture shock, then remember that there are expat Australian forums where families have gone through the same thing and they will be able to help you with some of the emotional and practical issues relating to your decision whether or not to go.

Oldernotwiser

McKneff wrote: »

Thanks for the honesty. hope we can stay too affording the weekly rental is a big worry for me here. Just trying to weigh up where we would manage better

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