I hate this countries benefit system

[wifeywifey]

My oh will be doing an aprentaship so will be classed as full time earning just under 8000 a year and the online calculator shows im better off not working by quite a lot grrrrrr

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[littlemiss83]

Unfortunately the system benefits single/unemployed ppl.

Sorry its worked out this way, what do you plan to do?

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[wifeywifey]

I dont have a clue, im going to speak to cab see if they can advise me how I can work and not lose out see if doing extra or less hours helps

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[spice]

its a lovely trap isnt it!!! i was made redundant when on mat leave . . . dont really want to put LO in nursery just yet so i'm not working, OH works full time (hes on £11.500 before tax) BUT because we have FIL living with us (he has a brain injury but works) we get sweet-f-a . . .

a girl my OH worked with (hes sons 6 weeks younger than ours) gets her rent and council tax paid, and income support, and child benefit and something else (cant remember) she went back to work for a week, told the relative people and got told all of them would stop (more likely be suspended until re-evaluated) so she gave up work so she wouldn't lose anything :/

i'm now considering night work...but LO still wakes at night and OH doesn't cope well with broken sleep so not sure what to do!!! best of luck xxx

 

[Mrs N]

It annoys me that quite frankly you pay your taxes and you get sod all back!! The child benefit was the final straw!! I never expected to really get anything from the government but I always justified it that we wud get the CB but no!!! Lol!!
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[Froslass]

It is sad the way it works, I'm in your situation too. Although OH is Y uni and working two jobs, and we couldn't afford to live if went back to work!


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[Froslass]

I do some volunteering during the week (at a hospice in preparation for applying t medical school next year) maybe you could do something like that? X


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[Sassysugar]

All we get is cb. What's the threshold going to be for cb next year?

 

[Mrs N]

Think it is 50k to receive it all then it goes down by 10% every 1k you earn over that so if you earn 60k then you get nothing!!
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[wifeywifey]

Dont think I could voulenteer id have no one to look after kids and dh will be doing shifts.

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[jules84]

My dh and I will be over the threshold for CB , just. And tbh I am qiuite ok with not getting any. We both work full time and are both quite well paid and I think the £20 a week would be better going to the low earners. £20 a week to some people is a massive diference and even though were not flush as our outgoings are quite high well be fine without it. There are families who work full time and earn 20k between them so considering were over double that I really think anyone over the threshold doesn't need it.

We aren't just paying taxes to get stuff back, we are paying for the sick and unemployed, the way I look at it is I cud be in their position in a few years so I don't mind really. I'm just fortunate to be over the threshold xx