Too Many Benefits?

[purpledahlia]

woah i got scared there, im panicking enough worrying about managing on 130 with a baby never mind trying to manage on 50! i get 50 now and its almost pushing me into a depression, i cant DO ANYTHING. i live in the middle of nowhere and cant get anywhere or do anything, cant have that with a baby.

 

[bloodbinds]

That is my problem at the moment. I live in the middle of no where!!! Which is why i'm moving next month!!

 

[purpledahlia]

lucky!!! Ive just moved back up here from London.. i really had no choice tho!! I am at my parents and there is 6 houses next to us.. some fields.. a bunch of highland cows ( were not in the highlands tho) and a road!? lol. There is a few shops and little village up the road but its a good 10-15 min walk and my hips too sore to walk it. Thats where the doc surgery etc is. *sigh*

Altho when i told someone i dindt have a car my mum did shout '' YET '' in the background (she was evesdropping! but i let her off cos she hint dropped too ) hahaa! if i get a car it would make my life ten times easier... but not if i have to live on 50!!

 

[Lexi's Mummy]

right so i dont get maternity allowance so i can still get income support right?? i live with my parents but im expected to help.. and of couse pay for me and baby

same situation as me still have to pay my way at home, but as its not a written tennancy agreement so to speak, it has to come out of our income support money lol x

 

[HannahGraceee]

right so i dont get maternity allowance so i can still get income support right?? i live with my parents but im expected to help.. and of couse pay for me and baby

I live with my parents and i get income surport x x

 

[purpledahlia]

PHEW bloobblinds u SCARED me!!
yeah bummer i wish we COULD get hb to give to our parents, shame. oh well. im pretty lukcy my parekts wont take too much but iv got to help and if were out of milk for example i got get next time mum does type of thing, i am still allowed to use their stuff but i have to keep the whole kitchen and tv room clean everyday so my mum comes home to a nice clean house!! and help generally, and cook a few meals a week so they can ''relax'' ugh.. its annoying but its fine, luckily, otherwise id be on the street really!

 

[HannahGraceee]

PHEW bloobblinds u SCARED me!!
yeah bummer i wish we COULD get hb to give to our parents, shame. oh well. im pretty lukcy my parekts wont take too much but iv got to help and if were out of milk for example i got get next time mum does type of thing, i am still allowed to use their stuff but i have to keep the whole kitchen and tv room clean everyday so my mum comes home to a nice clean house!! and help generally, and cook a few meals a week so they can ''relax'' ugh.. its annoying but its fine, luckily, otherwise id be on the street really!

Haha you have the same thing i have to do! for my rent i do the housework pretty fair if you tell me, it takes like 10 mins and its done for the day - if you want me to tell you what benifits i get so you know how much your be getting once your had bubs ill let you know as me and you are in basically the same situation x x x

 

[bloodbinds]

Sorry, didnt mean to scare anyone! You can get income support while living at your parents - i am not entitled while i live here though due to my maternity allowance! But i will be claiming my income support once i'm out of here!

I live on a road of houses. And thats it. For miles. Lol. We're surrounded my fields. No bus stop, no trains for ages, got to go to the nearest village to see any intelligent life forms, and even that only has one pub and one post office! Lol.
I do have a car luckily so i can get around - but i am having to give that up before christmas as it's an added expense i wont really use :-/

 

[purpledahlia]

oh, well i think i may get my mums old car for xmas, but i will only have to pay the petrol and any repairs or mot etc so thats not so often, they pay my brothers car insurance so hopefully mine too and thats the expensive part!!!

hanahgraceee - i worked out ill get 130 a week.. that about right?? income support, child benefit and child tax credit? i might get child maintenence for 20 a week btu im not sure yet and if i do wont be straight away, x

 

[HannahGraceee]

i get 148 (I think) £64 income surport - £64 child tax & 20 child benifit

 

[purpledahlia]

excellent, 18 quid more than i thought, every little helps! x

 

[HannahGraceee]

exactly!! plus you get your child tax backed dated!!

 

[purpledahlia]

what dya mean? u mean child maintenence?

 

[HannahGraceee]

No your child tax credits

it gets backdated for 3 months - so your get about £600ish

 

[purpledahlia]

how come? like from before the baby was born? or dont u get it till theyre 3 months?

 

[HannahGraceee]

Ohh i didnt think

Well if you applie as ssoon as your get all the infomation you need they will back date it till the baby was born for 3 months

so if your baby was born for example 18/9/2009 but didnt apply till 17/12/09 it will get backdated till date the baby was born but no further

 

[purpledahlia]

i dont get it.
I was gonna apply the same week as i need the money ?

 

[bloodbinds]

PD, as long as you apply right away then thats fine. She just means if you forgot to do it right away, or it took you a while to get forms in, then they will backdate the payments to you from when the baby was born.

 

[purpledahlia]

ooh, okie, sorry guys, my brain just officially doesnt work anymore!!

 

[HannahGraceee]

Plus the forms can take up to 6 weeks to process so atleast you know there gonna be backdated

and when you recive your child tax sometimes they dont back date it automaticly so ring up and they will backdate it for you x x x

dont worry i had the worse pregnancy brain EVER!! x x