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Maybe give citizens advice a call, just ask if there's any way there can be more help given? I completely sympathise with you we're in the same boat it's absolutely bullshit how we don't get much help too because we work and maternity pay is actually shit 🙄 I really hope you find a solution 😘
If your partner works full time, and earns over a certain amount, unfortunately you won’t get anything. I don’t even think taking him off will work because you’ll then be committing benefit fraud. It is really shit 😩
@Alice this is really bad advice and I don’t know who informed you of this but it is wrong. If you live with someone, are in a relationship with them whether married or not you must claim as a couple. You can be married/in a relationship and live separately and claim a single claim but not in the same household.
If you remove him that would be committing a fraudulent claim if you still live together and you will be heavily fined once they found out.
@Charlotte I also said she should contact citizens advice who would have told her if that was correct. As I said I was only relaying what I had heard myself by someone who was advised by an empolyee of the job center that this was the case for them. I was only trying to help by passing on what I had heard as I had no reason to question my resources.
The job centre workers are notorious for giving wrong information. I deal with things like this day in, day out helping families with this stuff at work.
Fair enough then. I'll remove the post
Just out of interest, what is he earning each month working full time? I’m genuinely interested in this because I find it baffling how the benefits system works and don’t understand how people are managing on one income, especially if it’s a low one. We are both working full time in jobs that pay way above the average and we are finding all these price increases really hard. Granted, we are paying over £1500 in nursery fees but I really don’t understand how people with only one income coming in are doing it 😞 xx
@Chelsea it really varies, say for instance someone with in a couple both over 25 with 2 children born after 2017 and say £900 rent would be entitled to £2093.44 before deductions. They could earn between them £4000 a month and still be entitled to over £100 UC a month, so there’s not really a limit on how much you can earn but more how your elements add up to how much your wage takes off. Hope that makes sense xx
You can’t remove him if you live with each other and have a home together otherwise that would that would be fraud.