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right dont laugh but....i want to go back to work

at the moment i am on £96 a week income support for me and Reece, so i need a job that is going to pay me at least £150 a week (or £96 + working tax credits) i will have to pay some rent and council tax i know, does anyone know anything about how the working family tax credits work cos i havent a clue, the rent on my house at the moment is about £68 a week, i only want to be doing about 16 hours to start with and i dont know what sort of job i want...in the past i have only ever done care work (and a bit of waitressing)which i dont want to go back to, Reece is only 11 so i'd love to do something just in the hours that he is at school


anyone any suggestions?

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Can't help with the financial queries Flashy .. but how about looking for something on school dinners .. sorta' waitress .. not quite though, and you could tell the punters off for being cheeky .. :D

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The best way to work it out is pretend is go to Start Calculation and input the details as though you are getting at job at minimum wage ( which a lot of part time jobs are anyway ) 16 hours at £5.52 per hour. Bear in mind you have to work a minimum 16 hours to claim working tax credits.

My guess is you won't be any better off and would probably be better spending time at college and trying to gain some skills in different things.

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thanx for that Dave :) i have an NVQ level 2 in care, was one of the first in Lancashire to get it at 17, but i dont want to go back to care work

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Flashy, welfare assistants dont make enough money for it to be worth doing if you want to come off benefits. you would need another job at the same time.

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Why not go down to the jobcentre and they should be able to help you sort stuff out and give you advice. Also tell you what kind of benefits you would be able to claim after you had got a job and also tell you what kind of college courses you could do etc. Might be able to help with retraining etc.

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If you enter the wage you think you might get at this site, it will tell you what tax credits and housing benefit you would get as extras
Start Calculation

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GTF, I don't believe you waited till you was 17 ;)

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:rolleyes: shut up Neil


right ive made my mind up on what i want to do....Nursing Auxiliary on maternity

its something ive always wanted to do and i applied a few times before i had Reece but never followed it through


where's Lettie when i need her?

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Got to admit, that is one job I would love to do too Shaz, talk about totally different age scales eh lol.

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i love children, you know what i'm like Mel, i'll look after any child of any age, hopefully my NVQ will help, yeah i know it was a long time ago that i did it and i may have to do some other courses, but hey this is the start of the rest of my life :D

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As a nursing auxilairy in any of the services you would almost certainly be expected to do unsocial hours...this is evenings,weekends, bank holidays, days, nights or any combination of.
You would have to have some pretty rock solid care arrangements in place for your son to enable you to do this.
I don't want to burst your bubble, but the reality is, that such care is a round the clock thing.

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You not fancy going to college to be a plumber, you can fit that tap then :rolleyes: :D

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if it came to that then yes i would have someone to care for Reece, my dad lives next door

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Well then, what are you waiting for...go for it!
It is certainly interesting.

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thanx Margaret :D

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Do you know if you would need to have a NVQ in childcare for a post on the baby wards?? I have NVQ3 in Elderly care, not sure if that would be useful though :confused:

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Mel ive been pm'ing Lettie all you need is a level 2 NVQ, its just basic care that you give, just like a care assistant, thats all the job is basically


you can do on the job training too


you can ring Melanie Robinson on 738405 and ask

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Haaaaa nice one flashy!!! might look into that!! that would suit me down to the ground. Does the name give me a better chance :D:D:D

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lol i do wish you wouldnt call me flashy, it doesnt sound right coming from someone i have known 18 years lol

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sorry slag bag lmfao

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pmsfl, love you too sonic ;)

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This has to be one of ther most absolutly pathetic threads ever posted, your probably sat on your arse all day (and have been for years) eating chocolate bon-bons and playing on your PC , you get money to live on , your rent and council tax is paid or subsidised, (all from deductions paid by working taxpayers) and you ask for advice about your career prospects ! , and also have the nerve to put limitations on what hours you feel comfortable working . God forbid that you would have to buy and use an alarm clock like millions of others.
In my opinion the Benefits office should be handing out brooms along with your monies so you can be out sweeping the streets during school hours so you can earn some of your keep .

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I do hope this wasn't aimed at me..... I have worked all my adult life, and needed time off due to my husbands Ill health!! :( But can't wait to get back now that we know that he is going to be fine.

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no it wasn't meant for you , it was intended for the original poster ,

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SHUT UP! she has a child... what do you want her to do take him down t'mill with her, leave him to fend for himself???

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YOU EVER TRIED BEING A SINGLE PARENT?

yes i am asking for advice on a job, would you rather me 'sit on my arse' for the rest of my life or have some initiative and get a job? i have ONE child i dont spit out kids just to stay on benefits, i dont have 7 kids with 7 different men, Reece is now 11 and i think he is old enough now to sort himself out, i worked up till i was 5 months pregnant with him, its not as if i have never contributed to the state....STEELJACK get your facts right first before you go spouting that old gob off OK !!!!!!!!!!

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Sorry, but if your post about having lost your keys years ago is an example of your parenting skills (ever heard of house fires and people being trapped) I don't think you could be trusted you to look after a cabbage plant let alone a child .

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I would join in Flashy bashing as well, it looks fun. Unfortuneatly there is not thousands of miles between us so I will stay quiet on this one.

I do hope you get yourself sorted out though Shaz.

I did not know ginger was unwell slinks, I am glad to here he will be ok.

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ah i see i have a little stalker now :rolleyes: idiot

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give her a brake at least she is wanting to go back to work nothing wrong with asking advise i hope you need help at some point and get the same response, i have worked all my life and my wife took time out untill are youngest was 9 now we have to fantastic kids with manners and respect,

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Dont worry about it Davo, i'm damned if i do and i'm damned if i dont, i think i'll just sit here for the rest of my life and have another 5 kids, it doesnt bother me what that narrow minded useles twirp thinks of me, its the people who know me that count :D the ignore button is great for ignoring him :D

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Cheers Neil! Still has the pain and muscle weakness, but the tests are looking good ... which is a big sigh of relief after 6 years of sheer heart ache.

They thought he could have MS .... But all Tests are coming back NEG so thats great news.

Not over til we find the problem though :confused:
Trust him to be a medical Mystery :rolleyes:

soz for the thread wander shaz love :-)

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I did wonder that about him when he stuck his lips on me at that meet way back. I hope they find out what is wrong with him soon.

Just a thought, has he been drinking a lot of lager, it shrivels things up according to Chubby. :D

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dont be silly, as long as Pauls ok thats the main thing

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Could be ME alias CFS.....they show a neg for all standard tests

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You need to listen to more Chubby Brown.

Man goes to the doctor telling him he cant satisfy his wife anymore. He says he just cant touch the sides. The dr asks him if he drinks lager. The man replies yes.
Dr explains that is the reason, lager shrivels things up and makes them smaller. He tells the man to drink Guiness as it builds you and makes things bigger.

Two weeks later the man sees his dr again. He tells him his sex life is great. The Dr asks if he is drinking Guiness. No says the man, I have the wife on lager :D

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I am not even going into the possibilities of what it COULD be. There are so many things that the symptoms COULD be, that its hard to pin point.
Even the Neurologist is baffled now. Been going on for years, but trying to get the NHS to move is like trying to get a Tortoise to run the London marathon :rolleyes:

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:eek::eek::eek::eek: I like lager ;)