I wonder if anyone can advise me. To cut a long story short, I was diagnosed in 2015 with a brain tumour (benign but just as willing and able to kill you as a malignant one!) it turned my life upside down and my outlook changed on many things. My twins were 3 at the time and I also had two boys aged 4 and 7. Once I had recovered, I took a job as an MSA at my kids school for 7.5hrs a week to get me out of the house (I lost my driving licence and was very low). Since then, the head has asked me to work as many hours as I can in the school office. I’ve been doing this and loving it for between 3-5 days a week depending on how busy I am with appts etc. However, I was never put on an office contract so am still only contracted for 7.5hrs a week. In January I am going for another surgery, followed by 6 weeks of radio and 12 months of chemo.
Obviously if I get sick pay, it will only go on my MSA wage which isn’t even £160pm. I wondered if I can get any help from anywhere. It broke us financially the last time round (my partner is self-employed) and we have been working hard to pull ourselves back on to our feet, so any little help we can get would really help.
We currently receive child tax credits and child benefit and that’s it. I’ve never needed to apply for anything else thankfully so I don’t even know who to speak to about it.
I was hoping to be able to go back to work at least for a couple of days a week but have since found out my immune system will be low and working with kids isn’t advised.
This year is going to be shitty enough as it is without us missing mortgage payments again.
Can anyone advise?