Need to boost income when I have a child with extra needs

naturaljazz

Mrs Soup is spot on about teaching assistant job. I have now done that for quite a few years. it is very low paid work, as the salary is pro rata, so 39 weeks pay is stretched over 52 weeks, so it is £7.46 an hour before tax, but it fits in with children. Cover supervisor is more money, you do need skills to do that job, but GCSE and A levels would be enough to get work, excellent behaviour management skills are needed. Primary schools have the most need for 1:1 TAs and Indeed job site has lots of those jobs going. You dont generally need to be qualified, I am, and still work with most TAs who are not and I dont get paid any more. As it is less pay than care work etc there are usually plenty of vacancies going in LEA and academies.

dave2319

Not sure whether you're interested in picking up a few quid a month from 'Get Paid To' sites, but if so then Swagbucks is a good one. If you're happy to run their apps, about £10 a month is possible from those, and if you work the site hard enough you could get 25 quid a month or more altogether.

Sites like that don't pay anything like the hourly rate of a normal job of course, but there's some easy money to pick up if you like clicking around!

There's a very active thread for it here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5579623

and a referrer thread here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1406969

flamin_galah

If you're looking to make around £50 a week, I think you'd need to earn at least £100 because of the tax credits taper rate - your income will affect your tax credits so you need to factor that in. My maths isn't solid on it but I'm thinking that since the taper rate is nearly 50%, you'll lose half your wage in tax credits, hence why you'd need at least £100 to cover it.

Teaching assistant jobs would mostly fall within the hours you outlined in your OP but the job wouldn't be flexible if you needed to take much time off with your daughter when sick. Most headteachers I know are not particularly understanding of this. You don't get annual leave that you can book off.

You could look into matched betting, there's a subforum on here for it. It involves taking advantage of the special offers on bookies websites. It's risk free but you really need to read up on how to do it first. It uses gambling sites but doesn't involve actually 'gambling' by risking your money. It's not for everyone, but it might be worth taking a look. I spend 5-10 hours a week doing it and I've made £3000 in just over a year. It's tax-free so won't affect benefits either. But like I say, read up first, see what you think.