So I have my nearly 3 year old in nursery on the funded working parent 15 hours a week as we was both working parents that qualified, I’ve been on mat leave and left the job as I won’t be able to cope with that work load with two children. I had a job arose which would work for now which is 15 hours a week and I got agreed they would pay me £183 a weekly so I met the working amount per week for the working funded funded hours.
however I have tried to also opt in to claim for the new style jsa as I will be looking for something with a bit more hours/wages but restricted by two children under school age but I could do with the extra income support because my wages have of course massively dropped. So I work 15 hours a week making me under the 16 hour threshold for new style jsa but I still want my funded working parents nursery hours as I get paid £183 a week which is the criteria for this as without that I may as well just sit at home, I want to work but I need to find something to work better for us with two small baby/toddler. My partners self employed so uc Is hard work for us to apply because the income is all over the place and I don’t understand how it works.
if anyone can please shed any light that will be great I think as both schemes are relatively new really hard to find anything online.