To ask if you can claim benefits in the uk by doing this?

[reqder]

Can you request to go part time and then claim as you’re now on a reduced income? Surely that makes no sense as people could choose to do that as and when they felt like it? I am from the uk but lived in Finland since I was 11… we are moving back again next year and I am currently a stay at home parent!

How does the benefits system work in Finland?
What if a single mother could only find part time work or she could only work part time due to lack of childcare?

As far as I’m aware the childcare situation in Finland/Denmark etc is far better than the UK.
Staff are highly qualified, well paid and childcare is cheap.

Yes that makes sense. I wonder if part time jobs are less common too. We have a lady in our team who works 3 days a week and claims UC. I'm not sure if she would like to work more or not but I do know we only advertised it at three days a week.

Can I move to Finland and claim benefits if I work part-time?

You can if you're on a reduced combined income (£30,326) and you both have less than 9,000 in the bank. It's not very much, and it's so expensive living in the uk.

@reqder

For an idea see turn2us benefits calculator.

Check your eligibility prior to arrival, if you have never paid tax and NI in the U.K. you may be ineligible for a period of time.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/getting-benefits-if-youve-recently-moved-to-the-UK/

Phone the citizens advice bureau for any queries on the above.

What people are due is complex and depends on No of children, childcare costs, renting or homeowner, disabled people in the household and so on. You can see a list of benefits here.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/

For most benefits, you have to be "habitually resident" in the UK. That usually means having been present for at least a month, sometimes 3 months.

It depends on lots of factors- but it's not as simple as working less to claim more. UC wouldn't replace a wage £ for £, so you're almost always better off working. (I say almost because I think in some situations with disability involved, you're not necessarily better off financially.)

OH works full time, I work part time. We have 2 children, one disabled so our claim includes the disabled child element and the carer element. We rent privately. Our household income is a good amount more than your husband's 33k and we get a small amount of UC most months (income varies due to overtime so some months our award is £0.)

Despite the amazing, generous Scandi system much coveted on here…

@nearlymrs

so you're almost always better off working

From a purely income tax/NIC/UC perspective, then probably yes. But when other benefits are in play, i.e. free prescriptions, rate relief, child benefit, free childcare, etc etc., then that's not always the case and earning a little bit more can mean you have to pay for prescriptions, or higher council tax, or lose some child benefit, or lose some free childcare etc., so you can end up worse off by working more. You need to crunch the numbers for the individual's own circumstances.

I am in receipt of UC and study part time, DH works full time on slightly less than £33k. I don't work. Also in receipt of CB, SCP, CDP and CA. When all household income is added up it comes to around £50k in total.

What a joke. It's a total piss take on taxpayers.

What's funny about it??🤔

You've had your chain pulled @Byronada - you can only claim if your household income is low, you're required to work once kids are a certain age, and benefits are basically breadline.

That is not the case for everyone. I study part time and have not been asked to work part time or full time. DC are 17, 13, 8 and 6.

Do you have free childcare?

And much higher living standards, higher sickness benefits etc?

Is this yet another faux benefits thread?

Would help if you explained what SCP, CDP and CA are.

Why do you think people with British passports are going to be trapped in Britain and unable to leave? Is this genuinely the sort of hysteria you live with?

Scottish Child Payment, Child Disability Payment and Carers Allowance.

This! Why should WE pay to support YOU?

Yeah right!

And disability payments and carer's allowance are provided due to needs, not low income?

So your situation is completely different to the hypothetical scenario set out in the OP.

These are payments for a child with a disability and carer's allowance.

Child disability payments are absolutely NOT a 'pisstake'.

@qwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty I'd love to be paid to study but it appears I'm working to enable other people to do so.

Why study if you are a carer with no prospect of employed work?

i guess one of the children has disabilities and gets DLA. İt wouldn't otherwise be the case.