UC and having to look for work but what if you are home educating ?

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Do they waive the requirement for one parent to look for work? How does it work as I can’t find much info online anywhere

No, they do not waive the requirement.

The state provides free schooling, but no funding for HE

Home educators are tied to the same rules as a schooled family, you will be expected to work. However the job centre are not allowed to tell you to use school as a child care option. We suggest not mentioning home education to the JC as we hear all too often people have their claims cancelled, or extra demands placed on them. You can look for evening work or daytime work etc, what ever suits you the best. There are home ed friendly child minders out there too.

So what happens , you just get less money ?
Can they waive it if one HE child has SEN ?

I’ve been googling but struggling to get any answers

Just worrying for whenever we are changed over this will be an issue

You are expected to look for work

If you don’t - then you will not receive any of the relevant benefits

If your child with SENs receives DLA then you can claim Carers Allowance which will mean you won't have to look for work.

They don't waive it at all for home educators. Sen or not.

You will get the same money anyone else would depending on your income, children's ages etc and other benefits.

Ok so it will be the carers allowance that means they waive the requirement not HE but then as the child receiving dla is school age will they not assume availability in school hours

I suppose I have to hope we don’t get changed over from tax credits to uc for a while

If you are in a couple, can you share the workload? Between the both of you you might be able to do 6 or 7 days' work at minimum and work different times. Depending on where you live and the cost of living in that area.

You'll have to do what any other family had to do if you don't want your kids in childcare or school...
One of you works days and one of you works evenings and weekends or nights.
Can't you look for home ed friendly childcare i.e. private tutors, nanny, child minder? Or team up with another home ed family and take turns who takes the lessons.

No as Dh is full time he can’t reduce his hours he wouldn’t be allowed and if he did it would be counter productive as he can earn more than I could
Maybe they’ll just have to sanction us as I need to do what’s best for the children

I’m hoping we won’t have to change over immediately but it’s hard to find out which areas are switching people over and when

Depending on how much your DH earns you may be placed in the "light touch" group in terms of your work searching requirements

but then as the child receiving dla is school age will they not assume availability in school hours

No, it doesn't work like that.

Approx £22000 is there a chart for various levels ?

Being fed and housed is best for the children

Look, if you claim dla and carers you get zero work commitments, or you can earn over the threshold and not rely on support

Where do I find the threshold information

You'll have to find he friendly childcare, when I nannied I worked with a he family and I'm now using a he friendly childminder whilst I'm at work as my preschooler (and baby) will be home ed.

I can’t see any nanny or childminder wanting to be employed by us as it would mean 1-1 care for one child (hrm hrc for dla) they then wouldn’t be able to take on any more charges
I also wouldn’t want to as I feel it’s my choice to home educate for these reasons and I want to be the one actually caring fur and educating

I need to try and find out when a likely change would be before I stress about this I’ve just been reading so much negativity about it I was thinking how will this work for our family

There's no requirement for HE to take place during core "office hours" though, and no requirement that the work you seek should be so either. Allowing for 8 hours of sleep a night there are 112 waking hours available each week - and surely your DH is at home for around 60 of those despite full time work - plenty of time for the children to get 30 hours of home education (presumably during the time when DH is at work) and for you to work at least 30 hours (presumably during the time when your DH is at home) and still have 52 hours in-hand to do whatever you like with (hopefully including a bit of rest!)

do They specify you have to get a job for a certain amount of hours ?

8 hours of sleep I wish I haven’t had a full nights sleep in 8 years due to night time care
Dh can’t do that as he has to drive and operate dangerous machinery so he has to have some unbroken sleep or it’s dangerous

Are you allowed to be self employed and work from home or do cleaning but what if it’s only say a few hours a week ? I’m utterly exhausted as it is