Benefits for 17yr old full time student

McKneff

Morlock wrote: »

Yeah, there are loads of part-time jobs going spare nowadays.

I absolutely detest sarcasm in any shape or form.
People should actually say what they mean.

If you want help and ask for it, and get it, then just accept it gracefully or ignore it.

McDonalds, supermarkets, restarants, shopping malls, the jobs are there if you look hard enough

BigAunty

karenw wrote: »

Is there any benefits my daughter could claim in her own right to help her get through sixth form?

What is it about this sixth form that makes it more expensive than the preceding 12 years of education?

No, there are no benefits she can apply for in her own right. Full time students without dependents or disabilities rarely qualify for any benefits (except EMA for some places).

She is classed as your dependent which is why you can get things like child tax credits, child benefit (and she is an influence on council tax discount and housing benefit if you receive these).

So that's potentially 4 benefits that you are receiving to help with the cost of living, plus possibly child maintenance (if applicable).

You could see if you could get any kind of grants from a charity on the Turn2us website which has a grant checker facility.

Dunroamin

Charityworker wrote: »

I'm in the same boat. 17 year old daughter at full time college training to be a zoo keeper. She has a saturday job at the local zoo cleaning out their 'non dangerous stock' but her wages only just cover the bus fair to get there and back and half a weeks worth of bus fair to college. It costs £19.50 a week just for her to get to and from college. She did get a bursary at the start of her course to put towards course books which was £38 for the year :j

It seems rather mean for a parent to make a child in FT education pay fares to college when the parent is funded by the state to cover these educational costs.

seven-day-weekend

BigAunty wrote: »

What is it about this sixth form that makes it more expensive than the preceding 12 years of education?

No, there are no benefits she can apply for in her own right. Full time students without dependents or disabilities rarely qualify for any benefits (except EMA for some places).

She is classed as your dependent which is why you can get things like child tax credits, child benefit (and she is an influence on council tax discount and housing benefit if you receive these).

So that's potentially 4 benefits that you are receiving to help with the cost of living, plus possibly child maintenance (if applicable).

You could see if you could get any kind of grants from a charity on the Turn2us website which has a grant checker facility.

I have often wondered this too.

I know my husband was made to leave school at 15 to help with the family income, but this was in 1964 when there were not all these benefits available to his single parent (divorced) mother. Nor did women earn very much as there was no equal pay. His mother worked full-time in a factory and her wage just was not enough to pay the bills.

But times have changed now, there is a great deal of help for single parents, which should continue while the child is in the sixth form.

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Morlock wrote: »

Yeah, there are loads of part-time jobs going spare nowadays.

funnily enough there are at this time of year,a short cv sent to all retailers in the area(especially the bigger ones)might get a result,i noticed argos had a large poster in store advertising temp part time jobs this week

clemmatis

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I know my husband was made to leave school at 15 to help with the family income, but this was in 1964 when there were not all these benefits available to his single parent (divorced) mother. Nor did women earn very much as there was no equal pay. His mother worked full-time in a factory and her wage just was not enough to pay the bills.

Yes, it happened rather a lot -- not only to children of single parents, either. In the late Fifties, I knew children who passed the 11+ whose parents wouldn't let them go to grammar school because they'd anyway have to leave at 15 to work on the farm. But of course it was really very rough for women single parents then.

Notmyrealname

Morlock wrote: »

Yeah, there are loads of part-time jobs going spare nowadays.

There's plenty of work about if you're prepared to graft and aren't fussy.

My son currently is cleaning bricks a couple of hours a day for someone. A friend of mine managed to get a job this week dishwashing at a pub restaurant - he's 40.

Notmyrealname

Charityworker wrote: »

I'm in the same boat. 17 year old daughter at full time college training to be a zoo keeper. She has a saturday job at the local zoo cleaning out their 'non dangerous stock' but her wages only just cover the bus fair to get there and back and half a weeks worth of bus fair to college. It costs £19.50 a week just for her to get to and from college. She did get a bursary at the start of her course to put towards course books which was £38 for the year :j

Thats OK. You get £70 at least a week for her in CTC and CB and it doesn't cost £50 a week to feed her...

princessdon

Everytime I read a thread like this one I wonder what has gone wrong in society. My parents received CB only for me (and were on a lot less money than is given to parents now with TC).

I was politely informed by them that not only did I have to pay my own way in 6th form I had to pay towards my keep, needless to say I had a job PDQ.

Where does this my child needs more (when they get generous benefits) come from?

skintmacflint

Well it's the expectations and availability now.

When we grew up before the 'benefit' system all the kids in my class had part time work when in school. Think the small amount of CB, there wasn't anything else stopped at 15.

And we didn't have 'gap' years kids want either to explore the world before starting uni. We went out to work for a couple of years to save towards putting ourselves throuhg university or college, even with support from parents who both worked full time.

It's so different these days it's hard to compare the differences in expectations over the years. Now we have school proms, people expect more, standards have improved. Not a bad thing in itself if we are all working to apy for 'standards' and don't expect someone else to always pick up the bill for it.

Even so several school kids who frequent our youth club have part time work they do. Milk rounds, deliveries, newspaper rounds, dishwashing in restaurants etc. Albeit sometimes it's to pay for their ciggies and beer. lol.

But if they can find the part time work it must be out there somewhere.