Community Posts, Tips & Support on Work & Money

I registered my LG today, she’s 4 weeks old. I get my CB payment every 4 weeks for my son, it’s due on Monday next week. Does anyone know if I complete her application this week will it be done in time to join up with my son’s payment next week? Or will hers be done at a different time? Also can you get a back payme...

I'm not going on mat leave until a week before my due date. Is anyone else doing the same. I'm probably really stupid for doing that. 😬

I applied for the £500 maternity grant and sent off all the details, they sent me back the maternity certificate does this mean that the claim has been looked into, if so how long does it usually take for them to process the claim?

posting incognito because honestly i’m kinda embarrassed, but does anybody have any kendamil going spare around s6 please? i don’t mind if it’s full/half a tin or anything it’s just to put me on until the end of the day if possible. me and my partner have had a really rough month financially and we have ran out of f...

Rant. My mental health is taking a deep dive. I was stalked 8 years ago and that’s coming back up currently, my seventh wedding anniversary is coming, I’m studying so hard and not doing well in my classes, we ran out of all the money we had set aside in our retirement and investments/CD’s. Our car is acting up, our ...

Hi mammas! I’ve dabbled in several arts and crafts, had my own Etsy site, offer pet and color block people portraits, freelanced for video games, though I’m having a hard time getting a consistent income. I’ve just signed up for Fiverr, but do you have any other ideas or recommendations to try to get a more steady i...

I’m due back to work in October but unfortunately I don’t have any childcare. The way my LG birthday falls I’m not entitled to the free 15hrs until January term time. I didn’t receive Matt pay off my employer i got maternity allowance from the government. The question I’m asking is from October last year to now I wo...

I’m a single mum with no support or help with my little one who’s 7 months old, I have no one that could babysit and I definitely can’t afford childcare, and he’s too young for me to get the free childcare hours still. I wasn’t expecting to end up in this situation and I’ve been scrambling to sort it since I found...

This might be a silly question but does anyone know if I can split my maternity leave? My company pays for 4months at full pay and 2 months at half pay and I wanted to use one of the half paid months in the summer so it would not be consecutive with the leave I currently have booked (it would be within a year of her...

How do you manage school holidays? I want to work mon-fri but I'm terrified of having to ask for annual leave to cover those periods- so is preventing me from looking for full time work atm. How do you do it? My little one starts school for the first time next month and only have her dad for support at the weekends,...

Hi moms! want to hear if you are planning on investing in 529 college savings. Heard that in California if the student has a 529 plan, they aren’t eligible for scholarships in college.

Does anyone know how maternity pay will work with the planned rise for teacher wages? I started mat leave on 3rd June and looking to go back next April/May but was wondering if I will benefit from this rise or not with being off?! Thanks in advance

Hi all, I’ve just received my maternity pay breakdown from payroll and it says on it my annual income £30,639 (this is my usual income, not including the 5.5% rise). My mat leave starts mid October, should it state my annual income with the increase on top or should I expect that they will just add anything extra on...

Did anyone curtail there maternity leave by going on SPL and still get paid for KIT days. I’ve just been told I won’t get paid for the days I’ve done because of this.

Do you put them in 8-6, how much is this costing you? I’m a SAHM and my dream job came up and I’m on the third round of interviews. I know I said I loved staying at home but this job would be amazing!! Any positive stories of going back to work as well would be so helpful 😊

Anyone here have an only fans? If so what kind of content do you create? I’m so tired of being broke! My husband works 7 days a week. I work 4 days a week and go to school for nursing. Every single week my account is negative. This week it’s sitting at -$215. We just cannot catch up. And I’m Sooo over it. I used to ...

Hey! My job has been making some big changes since we have been bought out by a different company and it seems like they trying to let go or get rid of everyone just to bring in people who work for their company. I currently work from home but I am afraid they are going to change us to be open 365 days a year 24 hou...

I’m 37 weeks pregnant and haven’t gone to a doctor because I don’t have insurance or I didn’t think I did. I just found out I did. I tried to reach out to a doctor and they said that I was gonna have to fill out paperwork and coverage. Would have to wait to get approved because they’re gonna ask me questions like, w...

Good afternoon By company has just announced that they are making redundancies across the business. They hav already approved my maternity cover and they are due to start in a couple of weeks. Does that mean they can't legally make me redundant? Just want to know my right as a 'just in case'

I work 3 days a week but I’m working 9/10 hour shifts, my LO goes nursery on these days and it’s £70 a day😣 me and my husband are lucky and are on very good salaries so neither one of us could stop working and take our LO out of nursery to save costs and be entitled to any benefits or afford to cover all our bills…