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To ask if you can claim benefits in the uk by doing this?

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reqder · 25/05/2024 14:27

Can you request to go part time and then claim as you’re now on a reduced income? Surely that makes no sense as people could choose to do that as and when they felt like it? I am from the uk but lived in Finland since I was 11… we are moving back again next year and I am currently a stay at home parent!

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size4feet · 25/05/2024 20:39

@JustAnotherPoster00

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Well on here for a start. So many people saying they choose to work very few hours do they can get benefits. MN frequently has threads where people give advice on how to make sure you keep under the thresholds. It's a sad state of affairs

Unjustifiable · 25/05/2024 20:35

Janjk · 25/05/2024 20:16

@qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty I'd love to be paid to study but it appears I'm working to enable other people to do so.

@Janjk

You can be paid to study.

That’s what student finance is for.

A lot of students do claim benefits while studying and may receive a bursary too.

If you haven’t availed of this that’s your issue.

Sprogonthetyne · 25/05/2024 20:35

It depends why you want to work part time. If you're caring for young children or a disabled person, then universal credit (the benefit you would be on) would be fine with you working part time, and top up accordingly. You wouldn't actually get that much though with your DH's income and your part time wage, but probably something if you have high rent or childcare bills.

If you have no DC or teenagers, they would want you to be looking for full time work. They would still top up your wages while you were part time, but would need you to be spending a set amount of time each week, trying to find a full time job.

qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty · 25/05/2024 20:33

Momstermunch · 25/05/2024 20:29

Christ. Will someone put Mumsnet in purdah until the election so we don't have to read this obviously goady bollocks?!

If only.

These benefits threads are endless.

Full of absolute nonsense.

Unjustifiable · 25/05/2024 20:30

Janjk · 25/05/2024 19:59

What a joke. It's a total piss take on taxpayers.

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@Janjk

Are you aware what CDP and CA are?

Child Disability Payment and Carers Allowance.

She is providing a service as a carer for a disabled child and being paid a pittance for it.

Crikeyalmighty · 25/05/2024 20:30

@MaryMaryVeryContrary having lived there for 20 months (Copenhagen) the scandi system doesn't have such a call on it as childcare is very reasonable, affordable housing is more abundant ( if you were Danish) and unless you had damn good reason to not be able to work such as certain kinds of disablement or disabled child the general expectation seemed to be that you were expected work pretty much full time-young kids or not- single or a couple.

As I've said before it isn't quite what people think- it's high tax, high services , a strong social underpinning for situations such as short term unemployment, homelessness or ill health or genuine disability- but on the whole it expects citizens to be out there contributing to society and tax take.

BestMammyEver · 25/05/2024 20:30

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Momstermunch · 25/05/2024 20:29

Christ. Will someone put Mumsnet in purdah until the election so we don't have to read this obviously goady bollocks?!

Goslingsforlife · 25/05/2024 20:27

MaryMaryVeryContrary · 25/05/2024 20:16

Why study if you are a carer with no prospect of employed work?

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news alert. Carers allowance is £81 per week. many carers still have to find a way to work around their caring responsibilities as nobody can survive on that pittance.

qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty · 25/05/2024 20:23

Janjk · 25/05/2024 20:16

@qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty I'd love to be paid to study but it appears I'm working to enable other people to do so.

Would you like to be a carer as one of your children had a disability?

Strange to put small amounts of money ahead of family @Janjk

Families where someone has a disability have much higher rates of poverty, stress, MH issues, family breakdown.

qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty · 25/05/2024 20:20

MaryMaryVeryContrary · 25/05/2024 20:16

Why study if you are a carer with no prospect of employed work?

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Hmm

The child may not always be at home.
Well paid career once qualified may enable paid care.

Goslingsforlife · 25/05/2024 20:18

Vettrianofan · 25/05/2024 20:04

That is not the case for everyone. I study part time and have not been asked to work part time or full time. DC are 17, 13, 8 and 6.

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i guess one of the children has disabilities and gets DLA. İt wouldn't otherwise be the case.

MaryMaryVeryContrary · 25/05/2024 20:16

qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty · 25/05/2024 20:14

These are payments for a child with a disability and carer's allowance.

Child disability payments are absolutely NOT a 'pisstake'.

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Why study if you are a carer with no prospect of employed work?

Janjk · 25/05/2024 20:16

@qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty I'd love to be paid to study but it appears I'm working to enable other people to do so.

qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty · 25/05/2024 20:14

Janjk · 25/05/2024 19:59

What a joke. It's a total piss take on taxpayers.

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These are payments for a child with a disability and carer's allowance.

Child disability payments are absolutely NOT a 'pisstake'.

qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty · 25/05/2024 20:12

Vettrianofan · 25/05/2024 20:10

Scottish Child Payment, Child Disability Payment and Carers Allowance.

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And disability payments and carer's allowance are provided due to needs, not low income?

So your situation is completely different to the hypothetical scenario set out in the OP.

MaryMaryVeryContrary · 25/05/2024 20:11

reqder · 25/05/2024 16:42

Thank you I wasn’t intending to do it I had just heard it was an option and was very surprised. We do not have that here

Yeah right!

FredsRoses · 25/05/2024 20:10

iamtheblcksheep · 25/05/2024 15:38

Everything wrong with this country in a nut shell. Get a job and contribute to society a bit rather than draining our benefits system as soon as you get off the plane.

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This! Why should WE pay to support YOU?

Vettrianofan · 25/05/2024 20:10

qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty · 25/05/2024 20:08

Would help if you explained what SCP, CDP and CA are.

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Scottish Child Payment, Child Disability Payment and Carers Allowance.

Theredoubtableskins · 25/05/2024 20:08

Kendodd · 25/05/2024 15:49

I'd second this.
Also, I'd make sure you all have Finish passports so you can leave if you need to. You don't want to get trapped here.

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Why do you think people with British passports are going to be trapped in Britain and unable to leave? Is this genuinely the sort of hysteria you live with?

qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty · 25/05/2024 20:08

Vettrianofan · 25/05/2024 19:55

I am in receipt of UC and study part time, DH works full time on slightly less than £33k. I don't work. Also in receipt of CB, SCP, CDP and CA. When all household income is added up it comes to around £50k in total.

Would help if you explained what SCP, CDP and CA are.

qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty · 25/05/2024 20:07

reqder · 25/05/2024 16:42

Thank you I wasn’t intending to do it I had just heard it was an option and was very surprised. We do not have that here

Do you have free childcare?

And much higher living standards, higher sickness benefits etc?

Is this yet another faux benefits thread?

Vettrianofan · 25/05/2024 20:04

ThreeFeetTall · 25/05/2024 15:49

Depends how old your kids are. If your kids are over 3 you will be expected to either work 30 hours pw or to look for work that is those hours
You will get child benefit.

That is not the case for everyone. I study part time and have not been asked to work part time or full time. DC are 17, 13, 8 and 6.

qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty · 25/05/2024 20:03

Byronada · 25/05/2024 16:32

There is a problem - taxpayers are paying for it. No wonder this country is in a mess. The sooner we have benefit reform the better.

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You've had your chain pulled @Byronada - you can only claim if your household income is low, you're required to work once kids are a certain age, and benefits are basically breadline.

Vettrianofan · 25/05/2024 20:00

Janjk · 25/05/2024 19:59

What a joke. It's a total piss take on taxpayers.

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What's funny about it??🤔