Going back to work!!

pizzle84

its just one of my monthly outgoings like water, electricity, car insurance, but i haven't mentioned any of my outgoings.

HappyMJ

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

What loan? You haven't mentioned a loan before!

It was mentioned when the purpose of the £900 allowance was for.

My parents are just helping out, i think they want to feel that they are being good grandparents giving money to cover pack lunches, uniforms, school trips and stuff like that, also i have a door stop loan (bad bad decision!!). Iv only been on benefits for 4 months didn't realise them helping me out was that bad

It's also exempt from benefit deductions.

Oldernotwiser

HappyMJ wrote: »

It was mentioned when the purpose of the £900 allowance was for.
It's also exempt from benefit deductions.

Thanks, I missed that.

Cornish_piskie

The bottom line is that your parents will soon be ending this handout - you mentioned they were prepared to pay it for about 6 months so the decision you need to make is whether you are happy to stay on £1218 pounds worth of benefits per month and not work or take the job and have around £1700 per month coming in inclusive of benefits - you said yourself that there will be progression through training in the new job and that will lead to more income. You haven't been on benefits that long so it's better to get back into work asap - if you stay on benefits you will find it ever-harder to get back into the job market. Your opening post said this is your dream job - it's a no-brainer as far as I can see

pizzle84

ok thanks, think i just needed people to ask questions and make me see it all in different ways. Think i'll just go for the job and see how it goes

cosmic-dust

HappyMJ wrote: »

So would I. But as child support is ignored no matter who it comes from...well they are the rules. A NRP could be forced to give £900 every 4 weeks (as that as how OP has been calculating this) if the annual salary was £180,000 per year and had the child between 52 and 103 nights per year.

It isn't child support, that's the huge difference in this case.

jetplane

Actually, if she has said it's for the child's expenses then it's ignored for benefit purposes it's not fraud. If she said it's for herself then it must be counted.

Which is why I queried whether they had they asked how she spent it because it depends on how it is assessed and it is not as simple as it being spent on a child. A decision maker wouldn't want to overlook this one and I would expect them to need to look closely at who can pay maintanance.

Do you know what regs state that grandparents can pay as much child maintanance as they wish and it will be ignored?

Yes there are loopholes which is why I was undecided whether the OP was quite dim or rather clever. You would have to be sharp to present it as child maintenence without knowledge of the benefit system.

We would all be worse off working if we had £900 a month buckshee that would be withdrawn if we went to work. But the answer is easy really just tell your parents that you have double good news, you have a job and now they only need to pay £400 a month.

cosmic-dust

pizzle84 wrote: »

Ahhh im confused now!! For child tax credits i get £240 paid into my bank every fortnight so £480/mth but on the entitled to calculator it says i should get £59.36/wk so £237.44/mth. Think iv done something wrong in the calculator for that. So now at this point i get £480/mth for child tax credits.

The dad is unemployed so i dont get anything off him (im fighting at the moment but im not getting anywhere!!)

pizzle84 wrote: »

Ok my benefits calculations disregarding wages/parents money etc.........

not working per 4wks
child tax - £237.44
IS - £270
Council tax - £122.28
Housing ben - £507.68
Child ben - £81.20
TOTAL - £1218.60

working per 4wks

Child tax - £237.44
working tax - £356.72
council tax - £5.76
housing ben - £129.08
child ben - £81.20
TOTAL - £810.20

Difference of - £408.40

Make your mind up about how much child tax credits you actually get.

pizzle84

I have double checked and it is £240 a month, sorry.

And to jetplane i am not dim thankyou, iv only been on these benefits for 4 months and obviously i dont fully understand every detail of them. Im sorry for maybe being nieve and not up to scratch with my info but i dont appreciate being called dim.

Errata

Could you explain how you spend c£225 each and every week on your child?