Community Posts, Tips & Support on Work & Money

Anyone just have no birth plan.. I’m 30 weeks, I’m being monitored by consultant due to low Papp-a. Overall I just want baby boy here safe and healthy with minimal risk. And lack wanting to be induced ONLY if medically necessary. But I have no birth plan what so ever, I feel like everyone else has a massive list of...

I'm looking at work from home roles. There's a few roles but they are saying I need a certain broad band and headset. I don't even know how to check how fast my broadband is or what the right headset would be. I thought companies provided this equipment

So I'm pregnant, not told work yet however I plan to early sept and I'll be 16 weeks. Our mat leave pay policy at the moment is 6m full pay, 3 months stat then 3 months zero pay. There is talk from November they are going to do 12 months full pay for mat leave. I work in the emergency services. If I tell them in ...

How does everyone manage on SMP? I am only eligible for 90% for 6 weeks and then down to SMP. Baby is not even here yet, and i am already stressing about money. I will still have approximately £300 of bills to pay out of the SMP money. Luckily my partner is covering the rest, but does anyone have any advice? Or any ...

My UC keeps taking two sets of wages out of one assessment period due to the way my wages is paid but essentially in the past month I only earnt 500 but they’ve said 1000 when I haven’t. This means that I’m not entitled to free dental and prescriptions and glasses etc currently on my way to emergency dentist and not...

When I was on maternity leave i was very fortunate that I was able to put all of my child benefit payments into a savings account for my child. Since I have been back at work part time, my wage is now considerably lower and I have found I am using my overdraft every month and have had to dip into that savings accou...

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Hii! So I worked right up until my delivery day August 13. My boss said he can’t issue an ROE until my last day of work. So on august 13, he issued the ROE and I applied for Parental leave. It says on the website it will be a 28 day wait for my first payment. Is this right? How can they expect me to apply on my LA...

Hey all! I just gave birth and my benefits were about to expire so I had to apply to renew it and add my newborn. I've never been asked to do a phone interview and now they sent me a letter for it. What questions should I expect?

When did you get paid after receiving a confirmation text message from maternity allowance (it says up to 10 working days) x

Im a nurse but barely making $29 an hour. Im wanting to get into a different line of work.. thoughts?

I was just wondering, mums who have gone back to work have you paid any tax on your wages yet? The last two months of pay (July and August) I haven’t had any tax deducted and wanted to make sure this was normal as don’t want to spend it and then have to pay it back later on.

My little girl is 9 months old and I can’t stop thinking of what I should be doing for work. I used to be a legal secretary working in the Conveyancing and probate department but I had to leave due to lack of child care and they wanted me back full time 9-5. I have A-Levels in maths, biology and chemistry. I have b...

Does anyone know of any legal or medical transcription jobs/ real companies that are hiring for remote work?

In need of getting some income

I only want to hear from people who have actually experienced this pleaseeeee. Mamas who got pregnant whilst on maternity leave, how far into your mat leave were you, did you SMP for your next baby? I’m just wondering if I’ll qualify

Hello I am currently on uc and my partner works full time but he's just started earning 2100 so now if have said I'm not entitled to anything and I need to go to work but I literally can't get a job because I have no family to look after my little boy and can't afford nursery after my partner pays his debt and car a...

Does anyone have any tips/ ideas on how to earn extra money during Maternity leave? I’ve just looked at my employers maternity pay and it’s worse than I thought. It really is a scary thought!

Can anyone help. I’ve been charged with a NHS penalty for a prescription as they have no record that I am on maternity leave. I never recall getting my certificate from my midwife. Does anyone know where I can find this? Do I need to go back to my midwife? HELPP

Do that kind of job exists? Probably I’m entitled but I want to do something on my free times but not being attached to the computer or headset for the whole shift. Works like that exists?