To think getting paid monthly when you are 13 is a bit rubbish?

[Sparklingbrook]

DS2 has a weekly paper round, he gets paid weekly on a Thursday. As from next week it will be paid monthly. I guess they are cost cutting etc.

His face was a picture when I told him, but I do think it's not great when you are that age to have to wait 4 weeks like the grown ups do.

*wage

My children get monthly allowance paid direct to their bank account. They have a debit card to take money out buy stuff etc. They are 10 and 14

I do love DSs having their own bank accounts and debit cards. They can buy all their own random tat online without me being involved.

RTI was introduced in April 2013 & until then it was possible to pay all school kids/students/part timers under the tax limit cash in hand or cash in the bank without giving HMRC any information.

It still is if every single person working somewhere earns under the limit.

But as of April 2013 if you have even one employee earning over the limit, then everyone even a 14 year old schoolchild has to go through the books.

Hence my explanation of why it might be different at the newsagents.

I wonder if the kids sproke knows who work at the "scrappies" (scrapyard?) have a work licence from the council?

DD had to get a licence (age 15) from the council, signed by her school, to work for me in her own house.

That rings a bell HSMM I am sure the school had to be informed about the paper round too.

Delivers papers for a big company? Wtf? So the daily record hires him to deliver their paper? Paperboys I know deliver for the wee shop. It's a hard working class estate here. Folk are poor, if their kids want things they have to pay for it themselves by working after school or at the weekends. You may like in a nice wee bubble in yer new builds driving 2 or 3 year old cars but life for most folk isn't like that.

It's the local weekly paper for our small town.

13y DD has just started getting pocket money paid monthly directly into her account, for which she has a cash card (for Switch and ATM) So far working fine, but she appears pretty good at budgeting at the moment.

Lots of employers are being advised to move all staff to monthly payments to make auto enrollment easier to handle