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HELP ON BACK TO WORK ADVICE ANYONE????

POSTED BY: camlen79 5 months, 9 hours ago

Hi all you lovely people could anyone help me out on this benefit advice as I feel like crying cos no one can tell me as I've had tons of different stories! Basically my partner and I have been on income support as he fell sick last year and can't work, nothing major though. I found a job 3 weeks ago and started it. its only 16 hours a week which I wanted and hes at home tith the two kids.
so I work 16 hours and pick up 92.80 then obviously get my child benefit and work and child tax credits then I have to pay money towards my rent of 68.00 and council tax of 19.32 which i know I have to put somthing towards them! Then theres school dinners which are 18.00 per week and my bus fare to work of 12.00
but on looking at what we used to be on I'm nearly 40.00 out of pocket when the job center told me by going back to work i'd be 15.00 better off!!! I haven't been pushed by the job center to do this as I WANT TO GO BACK TO WORK! but this is taking the Pi** why isn't there any sort of help for me to go back to work on my own accord!!! help
I have tried the entitled to site aswell, but does anyone know where I could go TODAY as if its not worth it Im obvioulsy not going in to work tomorrow although I'm really enjoying the job
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19-10-2009, 08:41
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are you sure your getting the right housing benefit, have you checked the figures you have given are the ones being used, as for the bus fair this obviously wasnt taken into account, neither where the childrens school meals by the looks of it


if you have only just returned to work, surely you still fall under job centre, could you not ring them

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work full time and save tax payers money

ask you husband to work as well

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you should be entitled to working tax credit
http://direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndB...dits/DG_180537
you can also claim a one off payment for clothes etc - you have to claim within first month of returning to work

ask in job centre what is available to you - plus get all info you can off website - print it off and take with you as some of our ''civil servants'' who work in these offices - dont know !!

if you do go back to work - ring tax office with your N>I number syaing you work at tesco whatever so you can get your tax sorted out straight away - you wont pay anything until next april -

dont say to jobcentre its not worth you working - some jobsworthy might take this further and you could get benefit stopped

good luck hon - let us know how you get on

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holly did you actually read the op - lol

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citizens advice could help

but as sassie said they wont have taken school meals or bus fares into account

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thiose figures dont sound right for housing benefit and council tax, how many children do you have?

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work full time and save tax payers money

ask you husband to work as well
Well I don't want to work full time and if you read what I said my partner can't work at the moment !
But atleast I want to get off my backside and make a contribution
I always knew there would be one smart one to put on a pathetic comment!

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I cant believe the number of people encouraging OP to get more benefits rather asking to work full time and get a brighter future. Its just unbelievable.

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I cant believe the number of people encouraging OP to get more benefits rather asking to work full time and get a brighter future. Its just unbelievable.
because we dont all have the talent you have been given

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thiose figures dont sound right for housing benefit and council tax, how many children do you have?
I have two children 4 and 7


Also job center said I'm entitled to zero as the jobs only 16 hrs not 24 or over and I don;t get anything for finding my own job!!!

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Well I don't want to work full time and if you read what I said my partner can't work at the moment !
But atleast I want to get off my backside and make a contribution
I always knew there would be one smart one to put on a pathetic comment!
Not pathetic but simple, why not manage your self, to me claiming benefit is like begging for monthly money.

Dont think why your employer wont employ you full time or maybe get another part time.

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I cant believe the number of people encouraging OP to get more benefits rather asking to work full time and get a brighter future. Its just unbelievable.
she has already said partner cant work......so ur advice was less than helpful

if u cant help the op with regards to the question....why bother posting ?????

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she has already said partner cant work......so ur advice was less than helpful

if u cant help the op with regards to the question....why bother posting ?????
I bother posting because she can work full time and make a better living. Quite simple.

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I cant believe the number of people encouraging OP to get more benefits rather asking to work full time and get a brighter future. Its just unbelievable.
For some people it's just not practical to go back to work full-time, and before you get on at me, yes I work part-time, my husband works full-time and we don't claim any benefits, but we are lucky that we are in a position to do this. Just because you are too there is no need to react in this way to someone who can't, she's explained that her husband can't work due to illness and rather than sit at home and claim benefits, the OP wanted to go back to work but if she's worse off doing this then where is the incentive? This is where the benefits system really breaks down and kind of implies that they pay too much in the first place but that's not the OP's fault.

Good for you getting off your bum and going back to work full-stop, more than a lot of benefit pushers would do and if 16hrs is what works for you then stick at it. Don't really know the ins and outs of benefits so can't advise, apart from get in touch with local benefits agency and your job centre again today to see if you can get anything sorted. Oh, and ignore annoying people like those above - Good luck.
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