Long time lurker but this is my first post so please be nice to me :)
Basically I don’t know what to do. My little boy is two months old and I’ve starting to look at what will happen when I go back to work next spring. After costing up childcare in the area I’m in I’d basically be paying to go back! We’d lose my entire income from the family pot.
My partner works different shifts each week so finding a different job to work around his so we can share childcare is out of the question.
My question is this. Would I be unreasonable to go on Universal Credit for a year (ish) until the free childcare element kicks in and I can afford it? Or until my partner can find a better job to support us? Or until I can find a better job that works? My family and my partners family are all saying I should (they’re all very high earners and reckon I’m should make use some of their taxes....not sure what to say to that!), but I just feel that it’s not what benefits are there for?
But in the same vein I’m struggling to see another option.
Anyone else here with personal experience?
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....to think that going on UC would be better than going back after maternity leave?
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TheDelorean81 · 01/12/2019 22:07
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