Really worried about money
I'm 10 weeks pg and havent been with my partner for long so werent living together. We both work full time on low wages and I'm thinking I'm going to better off with him not living with me. I'll lose most of my WTC and unless he gives me half his wage his wage will not make this up. I own my own house and have a mortgage to pay so cant afford to lose that amount of money especially when I go on maternity and will only get half my wage.
I'm so stressed and dont know what to do for the best.
I'm so stressed and dont know what to do for the best.
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Will you definitely only get half your wage when you go on mat leave, check your contract? My employer is 90% for the first 6 weeks (which I'm sure everyone gets) and then half pay for the next 12 weeks plus the mat pay, which only puts me down a bit and then mat pay for the rest of the weeks. I can afford to take 5/6 months off which is better than nothing. You'll also get your family allowance (not sure if it's still called that) of around ??80 every 4 weeks and I also got the tax credit, which worked out around ??90 every 4 weeks for the first year, then ??40 for the remainder. If you are both on low wages, you should get more than that as me and hubby were earning around ??38k between us and still got that amount. I'm sure you can work it out on the directgov website
HTH
C xx
sorry to hear ur worried, we manage on only 1 wage as childcare in our area is a joke.
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