Community Posts, Tips & Support on Work & Money

Hey, with 15 free hrs applying online it says you need your start date for work.. do you get anything official from work to say your going back or is it just the date you need? Only asking because nursery are wanting the code soon and my work are not very good at communication and not responding to me.

what’s the dream career and life you’ve always wanted, have or are working towards? stay at home mom counts!! i don’t care what anyone says. so tell me all about it <3 i went to culinary school and currently am a SAHM in the mean time :) i wanna work in fancy bakeries making pretty pastries and bread all day like i ...

Please mommas i need a job that i can do from home. I live in Uk and I’m on my second pregnancy and with happened to me with my first pregnancy. Im not ready to be laid off work again because of pregnancy. Thank you 🫶🏾

Hey ladies! How much are you left with roughly once all the bills have been paid, mortgage, food etc. I work two days a week at the moment and my partner works full time. I just don’t see how you can manage on such little 😱

My daughter’s dad got a new job in July and said he’d be paying more child maintenance because he’s earning more. I didn’t know that he didn’t report the change of job to CMS, we were getting along so I left it. Now it’s come to paying, he’s refusing to pay more and saying he never said that (even though other peo...

If I have requested 12 months' leave but want or need to go back to work earlier, can they say no?

Hey ladies,,, as a stay at home mommy, what paying job do you do?? Please help a frustrated, depressed, new mom

Any inspiration for working from home jobs? I definitely can’t return to my previous role, but have never worked from home before and no idea how it would even work with a baby! Any advice please let me know x

My Bestfriend and I have known each other for 15 years. We loss contact back in like 2014 because of her ex partner. Back in 2020 she message me and apologized for everything and I forgave her. Since then she’s always asking me for money I don’t mind landing her money if it was a short amount but she’s always asking...

Hi! Any moms here have experience with enrolling for public healthcare for their baby? Like MediCal, IEHP, etc? I want my baby to go to Kaiser Permanente hospitals and i know they accept/work with MediCal but I have no clue how to enroll my baby 😭 he isn’t born yet, I’m 35 weeks, but I just want to know the process…

Does anyone know of any at home online jobs part time or full time being a full time mummy with hardly money coming in is hard

I completed my Maternity Grant form a few days ago but only just managed to send it off today. Yesterday was the 6 month deadline but I just want to know if it will be accepted or rejected as I had signed and completed the claim form before this date?

I’m currently on maternity leave, due to go back in January and I’m shitting it. I haven’t been to visit the ward I work on in months because the thought of it is so scary to me. I only worked on the ward for about a year and a half before leaving for maternity leave and honestly hardly have any friends there. I l...

Idk what else to do. I've gone through temp agencies but the hours conflict with school hours. I can't pass the assessments for these jobs on my own and I'm starting to doubt my abilities. I'm already homeless and in my car with my child and it's getting grim. Idk what else to do. I need a job to see my worth and of...

Hi all, Can someone help me work out maternity pay entitlement? I started a job on 7th May. To qualify for occupational maternity pay, I need to have been working here for 12 months up to and including the 15th week before the expected week of childbirth. I worked it out that the soonest I could get pregnant woul...

I recently found out my home birth plan it’s not going to work with the nhs due to “restructuring the services”. I’m desperate first because I have hospital trauma and mental health issues to deal with, I know it will be very hard for me having to deliver in a ward, even in a birth center (not guarantee there is roo...

What do you all do for extra cash? My husband and I do decent for ourselves but recently dug ourselves into a bit of a hole between moving & random things popping up we weren’t expecting. we are just trying to catch up. We both work full time but have evenings for something on the computer.

Has anyone gotten a temporary handicap placard due to their pregnancy? I don’t have complications with my pregnancy, I just have to park so far from my office and it’s getting harder and harder to walk that much 😣

Hey Ladies, If you live in CT & are currently pregnant, you can claim benefits, including a lump sum payment & salary for up to 15 months!! Message me, comment I’ll message you for more info. 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾 spreading the word

Ok little confused here.. I know you need 600hours to get EI but do you need the "best weeks" too which I think is 21 in BC? If so, does that mean if you don't work 21 weeks and make at least $63k, you won't get the max benefits? Because that sicks then...600hours can be less than 21 weeks so then you are being forc...