It massively annoys me how little help there is for people who are trying to improve their situation. I want to start a campaign for students with a working partner to be classed as employed (or usefully occupied) for tax credits purposes, as being classified as unemployed automatically disentitles the family to any help with childcare costs from tax credits and the student finance help for childcare is a joke at today's living costs, you have to be pretty much destitute to qualify. (I am not proposing to discriminate against lone parents here but if you are on your own and have no other income you do qualify for student finance help with childcare). We took a cut in income for my DH to become a student in the hope that long term we will be better off and lost our childcare support. We are managing as we live in a cheap area but others may not and it is a concern that people may be put off studying and just accept a life of low pay and poor conditions.
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