And how easy is it to get credit etc? Its a disgrace u just walk in to a shop and walk out with something even tho u didnt spend a penny. Its easy to spend wat u dont have thinking ull pay it bak but the thing is u lose track of wat uve spent cos of buy now pay later schemes then wen it comes to pay it ur maxed out and cant afford it.

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LIZZIE XXXXX

Tell me about it

Just an update really to say I have now been working for a month and my mum and mark looks after ella while I am there, I didnt want to go back to work just yet but Im lucky as Im friends with the manager so I get anytime that I need off.

The reason I had to go back was because we had to change our mortgage and we coulnt have the one we wanted because I didnt work :evil:

I do enjoy my pay slip each week though

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The govenment don't cater for mothers who want to go back to work in this country.
Myself and my wife both work full time and we both start work early (me at 7:00am and she starts at 8:15am) I work 12 hour days and she often works till 5:00pm.
The only option to keep us both in work was to find a school which had a pre and post school class. this was not available at any government funded schools in the area, and subsequently we had to pay for her to go to a private school. This is effectively punishment for having kids and wanting to holt down a full time job.

As for paid paternity leave, 26 weeks is allowed, but this is not at full pay, my wife was on 6 weeks full pay and the rest at half pay, I get 3 days full pay and the rest I can take but I do not get anything.

So to sum up, you can have time off to look after your kids, but you lose money. You can go back to work, but you need to pay someone to look after your kids so you lose money.

Sometimes wonder why I should bother having a job. I could just claim benefit, fiddle the governtment, get free prescriptions, free school dinners, Id be quids in.

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quote from micko: Sometimes wonder why I should bother having a job. I could just claim benefit, fiddle the governtment, get free prescriptions, free school dinners, Id be quids in.

are you insinuating that everyone on benefits is on the fiddle, and it aint all that brilliant being on benefits believe me :evil:

"My opinion" - im not picking, pointing, arguing.

Micko I can see why you work full time (same as my hubby to pay the mortgage) but there is no way I could work full time cus I wouldnt know my kids. When I went back to work to get my maternity pay I was counting the days when I could leave. I used to drop my kids off at the CM at 7.00am and not see them till 5.00, i hated it.

Not every1 who doesnt work is on benefits, i dont work my hubby supports us. I could work if i want which i dont and wont because i have a choice luckily enuf i no some people dont have that choice. I prefer to be at home wen my kids come bak from school and be there wen my baby does something new. AND if someone chooses not to work and claims benefits if its to be at home with the kids then i say DO IT theyre only small for a wile and its not fiddling unless ur doing the double.

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LIZZIE XXXXX

As soon as benefits is mentioned people get on the defensive. Did I at any point say, all people on benefit are fiddling the system? Did I at any point make a remark aimed at anyone on this site?

All Im saying Is, I could be financialy stable by not working and doing what thousands of other people do, and that is live off the state.

Nothing wrong with that if it is done for the right moral reasons, like you say your kids are only young for a short time so make the most of it.

But some people, as everyone knows do it because it means they get an equall or better standard of living for less effort.

Me personnaly, i'd rather work for my living and be able to say that everything that I have achieved has been through hard work and effort.

This is supposed to be a debate. So this is my opinion, and personally I cant see how it should offend anyone on this site, unless your admitting to being a benefit cheat.

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I dont a agree with benefit fraud, we work for everything we have, but it does annoy me that people on benefits seem to be better off than me, like I need a new pair of glasses but I cant afford them so I go without, a friend of mine (on benefits) always had a purse bursting with notes and the kids never went without.

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Everyone know some like this, and thats my point exactly.

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