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Would you / are you continuing to pay your cleaner / dog walker / gardener?

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TreacherousPissFlap · 29/04/2020 06:11

We use a dog walker for DDog2, approx 4-5 days a month dependent on shifts. This works out at £12.50 a walk.
Since the lockdown this has obviously been cancelled, but as DH is furloughed it's not been an issue. I paid the initial invoice for April and had intended to pay for the walks I would have booked in May.
However if she is able to claim loss of earnings from the government, isn't there a chance she will technically be being paid twice?
Initially I was happy to pay as we've only lost 20% of DH's income and I'm still working. With the money we've saved on haircuts, going out etc this has made little difference to us, but we are still financially down. Would you continue to pay or not?

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LadyGAgain · 30/04/2020 08:13

Because @CandyMan10 many cleaners are hardly living in luxury and if I'm being paid then I'd like to pass some of that forwards to help. It feels like the right thing to do.

Aridane · 30/04/2020 08:25

Ah, @CandyMan10 - you have made the rookie error of not respecting the pedestal on which bleachers stand in the world of Mumsnet.

user1487194234 · 30/04/2020 08:27

Paying my cleaner,feel that is the correct thing to do.For all it is in the grand scheme of things
Gardner still coming so obviously am paying him

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morelikeaclubsandwich · 30/04/2020 08:29

I've paid my cleaner with the rationale that I've budgeted for the money so it's no skin off my nose. I'm still working though and my house is pretty grim I can't wait for her to restart!

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