Can you get universal credit for being a SAHM if husband works f/t?

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I am a SAHM and dh works full time, only min wage but he does about 50 hours.
Would I be able to get Universal credit and stay at home dc are 5 and 7 both at school.
I don't want job seekers as I'm not looking for jobs but just wondering if UC was an option or if I'd be expected to look for work?

Well this is all pustulating along exactly as expected

Agree. It's a horrible thread. Some people may find getting a job difficult and it's not as though op's partner isn't working to support his family. 50 hours is a lot of hours.

Are child tax credits different? I have who doesn't work but gets nearly £800 a month in child tax credits and child benefits. Two school aged children and a husband who works full time.

Thats not the case.
As I mentioned friends have told us all the benefits they get including the above I mentioned. Couples, not working, not disabled, no long term illnesses….nothing. They also have not recently been made unemployed.
Children all at school.

Yes tax credits are different and ridiculously low working hors for a couple to get working tax credit top up. I think it's still 24 hours between a couple and has been for years. No wonder tax credits are finally being phased out this year and next !

It was quite clear that poster was being facetious.

Which would all be fair enough if OP was job hunting

But she's not

You were trying hard to work. The OP is trying hard not to. That’s why people are responding as such.

And then person on child tax credits is getting free school meals and subsidised trips and doesn't have any travel expenses of getting to work so is actually financially better off than me every month. After I've spent my £100 a month on dinner money (£2.50 a day, 5 days a week, x2 children)

I’m with you op; if you don’t want to work then why shouldn’t you get money to stay home. Ignore all those parents who both work and sort child care by working evenings, weekends, sorting back to back holidays etc, you have every right not to work, importantly not to be hassled to work or asked to look for It. and for the tax payer and your husband to pay for you.

keep that hand out for the money and launch a one woman protest.

Exactly this. It's a completely different situation for somebody who is actively seeking work and good for you for taking on a care job which frankly most people don't want to do rather than rely on benefits. People are taking issue because the OP is choosing not to work for no reason other than bone idleness.

I'd imagine you'll be entitled if your husband is on a below the threshold wage. However if you do qualify for it and your kids are of school age then you will be expected to look for work just like lone parents have to. Its not a different set of rules for you because you're married.
If your husband is on megabucks then you won't get so much as a chocolate gold coin from UC, so Therefore you'll have the choice not to work.

Im a civil servant and used to work on the tax credits helpline, the amount of people that used to call as they had been offered more hours at work but wanted to check what it would do to their benefits before they agreed. Keeping your benefits high by keeping your earned income low shouldn't be a choice. Neither should someone saying (as in this case), can I claim something but not look for work as a trade off.

If the OP had said she was happy to try to find employment while claiming UC then it would be different but she clearly has no intention of working. I'll be honest though, I couldnt not work while allowing my partner to work 50 odd hours a week (we both work FT).

How do other parents do it?
paying for loads of childcare, before and after school and holidays depending on the situation and basically having very little money!

Term time jobs, evenings and weekend jobs, lots of things really. I had to leave my job when I had two kids as couldn’t afford the nursery fees and I instead worked evenings and weekends. I was knackered. Now I’m back working during the day using a variety of childcare! They are 3 and 5.

Is there a reason for u not to work?
Y would u want to be at home whilst ur kids are at school?
I retuned to work two years ago and while I love it for adding money to the house, sense of accomplishment and the fact that the kids now see working and juggling as a normal thing can you really not see the downsides to one not going out working? Myself and dh are on edge whenever anyone is sick or has an appointment because then we have to have the argument as to who is going to take time off which potentially leads to a talking to (which we’ve both had). I now work over the weekend instead of two days over the week so we have some respite but it means I miss out on us all being together. We’ve nboth missed birthdays and school concerts and bake sales and sports days. As for people thinking school time jobs grow on trees , they really are not as common as you think when you go looking for them!

Yes I’m aware of the changes to come soon. The Govn calc online has as yet to be updated as it’s still relevant at the moment.

Tbh these changes to getting benefits aren’t new, in the 80s and before you had to prove you were looking for work to get benefits. You had to show the dole office all your application letters and proof of interviews and refusals etc. It’s ridiculous they got rid of that requirement.

No you are wrong sorry to disappoint you.

I think a lot of poster’s don’t understand how universal credit actually works, of course the op can claim and if she is renting will get a substantial amount on a £27k salary with two dc.

My dp earned £46768 April 22-April 23 we rent a social housing 3 bedroom, 2 bath with dressing room for £639 a month. We have 3 dc aged 11-16 and get £800 pcm in universal credit, I have conditions to look for work. After reading this thread I contacted DWP on my journal and got a speedy response the joint earnings threshold for couples is being removed gradually from September but if one member of the couple earns more than 36 hours at national living wage (double a single claimants 18 hours) there will be no obligation to seek work as the monetary amount will be meet.

As a rough guess based on your income you’d probably get about £300 a month UC plus most of your rent paid for you. They’d expect you to be looking for work though. Have you tried an online calculator like entitledto?

Actually it is a different set of rules if you are married because it's household earnings that matter.

This is equal parts hilarious and infuriating! You are seriously asking if the tax payer as a collective can pay you to sit at home on your arse because you don’t want to work?! If you can manage on your husbands wage you are a SAHM if you can’t then you are unemployed and obviously need to get a job you entitled sod!
This post here is a perfect example of one of the reasons this country is fucked

Exactly and op's husband is working 50+ hours a week. It would be pretty hard to find work around that number of hours and sounds like his job could be inflexible.

Not any more because the rules have recently changed for UC. It is soon going to be an individual earnings threshold that both of a couple will need to meet.

Quite agree with @NewNovember
OP will not be forced to work.
This will be changing tho.