Benefit single moms in UK questions

[resursval]

Do they let you be home and just tend to your child on benefits in the UK?
In Sweden they force you to leave your child on nursery 40h+traveling time a week to gain benefits and they make you work for the benefits.

I had to start studying to prevent my child being at nursery for so many hours but most weeks she's there 35h+ anyway so no big difference I'm afraid.

 

[lyns20]

wow really? yes we can stay at home looking after our child and still get benefits.
so if u want to be a stay at home mum you wont get any benefits?

 

[resursval]

wow really? yes we can stay at home looking after our child and still get benefits.
so if u want to be a stay at home mum you wont get any benefits?

Oh no we don't. We get to use all our maternity leave days which lasts til the child is 15 months old then they force us to leave the child to nursery fulltime between 40-45hrs a week if to get benefits. They don't want anyone sitting on their bums. I find this so harsh but that's Sweden for you

If we say we want to be home with our children they will not give you any benefits at all.
So my wee one has been on nursery fulltime since 15months old with 24 other children
Luckily she's a tough one and copes fairly well. But it's difficult emotionally to miss her so much...
I am not on benefits, they take our souls and dignity in Sweden dare I say...

 

[Laura2919]

You can stay at home with your child up to the age of 5 (I think) now. It used to be 7.

 

[resursval]

You can stay at home with your child up to the age of 5 (I think) now. It used to be 7.

Holy crap! And Sweden loves to think of themselves like the most child-friendly country in the world.
How is it child-friendly having to leave your 15 month old child to nursery 40-45 hours a week?

 

[resursval]

Wonder if I could move to UK and claim benefits? LOL

So that I don't have to leave my wee one She cries after me every day. How can they call Sweden to be so child-friendly and bla bla bla
Do you know they tell us that in Sweden we have a very generous stay at home ways? That many around the world have to leave their babies when under the age of 1 because they don't have maternity leave like we do.
We have maternity days til the child is 15 months old if you take out all of the days (like you do as a single mother) then you have to start working or work for benefit.

 

[emalou90]

i think its great you get paid maternity leave for 15 months! we only get upto 9!

so i think it levels out a bit like that xxx

 

[Rachel_C]

I actually think it sounds pretty good. All mums can stay at home with their child until the LO is 15 months? Some countries only give 6 weeks off and that's often unpaid. Then people are forced back to work by necessity anyway. Personally I'd say if you want to stay at home longer you should just wait until you can afford to do so without benefits; that's what lots of people do anyway. As the PP said, it balances out I think.

Doesn't Sweden have a really low rate of underage pregnancy too? I think I read somewhere that the benefits system helps keep that figure down low because people know they won't get a free ride if they accidentally get pregnant.

 

[Fraggles]

Im confused so are you saying to get a benefite like income support you have to work?

 

[resursval]

I'm not on the benefits but thanks for all your rants