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I'm a single parent who works 16hrs a week , now the council want £ 65 a week off me for rent and council tax ! Take away £20 for petrol leaves me a tenner !! What the flipping point working and they say that there trying to get people back into work yeah right !! I'm fuming I want to work but for £10 a week whats the point ????  |
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over a year ago
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"did you no you can actually work 15 hours n claim benefits also
I think so but thought I was better off working 16 hours but obviously I'm not "
Pretty sure you can work 16.5 hours and still be entitled. Give your local council or CAB a call and find out... |
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"did you no you can actually work 15 hours n claim benefits also
I think so but thought I was better off working 16 hours but obviously I'm not
Pretty sure you can work 16.5 hours and still be entitled. Give your local council or CAB a call and find out..."
I do get housing benefit but not full as I'm working |
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It boils my piss, when I read things pike this .people want to work but seem to be worse off. An ex friend has never worked, three kids, gets all the benefits etc, has a live in boyfriend, undeclared who brings home over 400 quid a week. , raking the money in....and breathe |
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I went to the job centre to enquiry about going back to work in September when my son is old enough to attend the local nursery.
They told me that working 16 hours a week I would get working tax credits to top up my earnings. Be able to claim back for child care around 70% but I assume as your child is 4 he/she has free hours anyway. And even though id then have to pay some rent and council tax I would still be £60/70 week better off.
It sounds like someone somewhere has done a calculation or filled in a form wrong. Ring the job centre and speak with them x |
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"I went to the job centre to enquiry about going back to work in September when my son is old enough to attend the local nursery.
They told me that working 16 hours a week I would get working tax credits to top up my earnings. Be able to claim back for child care around 70% but I assume as your child is 4 he/she has free hours anyway. And even though id then have to pay some rent and council tax I would still be £60/70 week better off.
It sounds like someone somewhere has done a calculation or filled in a form wrong. Ring the job centre and speak with them x"
My little girl is at school so I work school hours , I thought I'd be better off working but had this paperwork come yesterday x x |
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"I went to the job centre to enquiry about going back to work in September when my son is old enough to attend the local nursery.
They told me that working 16 hours a week I would get working tax credits to top up my earnings. Be able to claim back for child care around 70% but I assume as your child is 4 he/she has free hours anyway. And even though id then have to pay some rent and council tax I would still be £60/70 week better off.
It sounds like someone somewhere has done a calculation or filled in a form wrong. Ring the job centre and speak with them x"
Yep, working tax credits are the answer here,- they are there to help the transition of back to working... Talk to the job centre, CAB, or heck, ring HMRC,- they are actually very helpful on the phone these days. I'm an accountant, speak to them regularly. They are not the bad guys,- the law can be though! The people there want to help. |
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"I went to the job centre to enquiry about going back to work in September when my son is old enough to attend the local nursery.
They told me that working 16 hours a week I would get working tax credits to top up my earnings. Be able to claim back for child care around 70% but I assume as your child is 4 he/she has free hours anyway. And even though id then have to pay some rent and council tax I would still be £60/70 week better off.
It sounds like someone somewhere has done a calculation or filled in a form wrong. Ring the job centre and speak with them x
Yep, working tax credits are the answer here,- they are there to help the transition of back to working... Talk to the job centre, CAB, or heck, ring HMRC,- they are actually very helpful on the phone these days. I'm an accountant, speak to them regularly. They are not the bad guys,- the law can be though! The people there want to help. "
Thank you I ll ring them Monday x |
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Do you claim working tax credits? Cos that is what makes the big difference for me.. And what makes it so much better for me to be working!
I'm a single mum to a 6 year old and work just under 30 hours a week.
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By *eavenNhellCouple
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"It boils my piss, when I read things pike this .people want to work but seem to be worse off. An ex friend has never worked, three kids, gets all the benefits etc, has a live in boyfriend, undeclared who brings yhome over 400 quid a week. , raking the money in....and breathe"
take it they are now ex friends as you have reported them to the dss ? Or are you turning a blind eye to benefit fraud ?
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It is much better if you can work over 30 hours if you are a single parent too
Which is crazy because in most circumstances you have to pay for childcare which is not that well subsidised as they make it out to be
Im lucky where I work because its Term Time but I know where you are coming from , although that rent you pay is pretty high a week !!!
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I do feel for parents who want to work but the minus side is how they are going to manage... However I do feel for single people who work and get nothing in terms of help with benefits. I earn below the national average income and I fight to pay all bills,rent,council tax a month.. |
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"Why do you only work 16 hours? because I've got a 4 yr old daughter and wouldn't pay to work full time because of childcare "
Surely you get both working tax credits and child tax credits and child benefit so therefore you are not living on £10 are you. Also if they are now asking you to pay does that mean that you are in a 3 bedroom property and are coming under the bedroom tax rule then? |
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