Testing the waters,
Have previously posted about leaving work to cut childcare costs, I obviously worded the post awfully so lets try a different angle!
Any mums working FT who have reduced their hours to part time?
If I managed to convince my work to change my contract to part time, we wouldn't have to put LO at the childminders at all, which would save us shy of £500pm.
Then there's only preschool charges on top of that, and that works out to £72pw, which we'd then be able to cover using the 30 hours free childcare scheme...
WTC and CTC would result up in our income being more or less the same as it is now.. We'd be saving £500pm plus the £288 for preschool... Seems like a no brainer.
I don't want to be a benefits "scrounger", we've just been struggling with bills ect and constantly finding ourselves falling short before payday. Don't understand how the system seems to hand money out to those unemployed!
Living in an expensive area with expensive childcare costs- moving is not an option atm as neither of us drive- but we are on the housing list and actively looking!
Advice please
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justdeeeee · 30/08/2017 11:15
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