Stressful week and what a morning

[psychocandy]

FTFY

If partner is not working, and actively looking for work (thats the important bit), then assuming they have paid NI in the past two years then they are elligible for contribution based JSA. Of course, if you're working she'd have no chance of income based JSA.

Of course, if you're both not working, you can both claim JSA, and a raft of other benefits if you have children especially.

[northernladyuk]

If partner is not working, and actively looking for work (thats the important bit), then assuming they have paid NI in the past two years then they are elligible for contribution based JSA. Of course, if you're working she'd have no chance of income based JSA.

Of course, if you're both not working, you can both claim JSA, and a raft of other benefits if you have children especially.

Do you have to declare your Jeremy Kyle appearance fees to the dole office?

[PurpleGorilla]

My mate Colin's wife didn't work. He had three kids in private education. He used to say he worked until September every year just to cover the school bills. He always had enough money to last about two weeks and was always having to pay the Revenue in instalments after his accounts went in. However he's been contracting for about twenty years and managed to avoid downtime in the main. The kids have gone now and he's getting flush.

So you can defy gravity.

When does he get his quadruple bypass?

[psychocandy]

Get the missus to go to work or take the kids out of private school. If for some reason you (or she) think that she shouldn't work and earn money, then you're going to have to take your kids out of private school
Next, sign up to a home finance course or speak to professional advisors - maybe at your local bank - and learn to save rather than spend everything.

I got a real thing about that. Friends of ours got no kids at home - all grown up. They weren't flush by any means before.

She decided she was going to quit. So now they're pretty skint. No more holidays etc. So he goes to work, she stays in bed until midday and swans around all day lunching, going to the gym, making them more skint spending money etc.

Sod that - no way would I put up with that.

[TheFaQQer]

We had taken some fairly large dividends to settle some past debts hoping that the client co would renew the contract for eternity. After all thats how contracting works right?

No

[TheFaQQer]

I got a real thing about that. Friends of ours got no kids at home - all grown up. They weren't flush by any means before.

She decided she was going to quit. So now they're pretty skint. No more holidays etc. So he goes to work, she stays in bed until midday and swans around all day lunching, going to the gym, making them more skint spending money etc.

Sod that - no way would I put up with that.

How does your Mrs feel about these lazy dossers who just lie around all day, not working, skiving off the state?

[PurpleGorilla]

Stressful week and what a morning

How does your Mrs feel about these lazy contractors who just lie around all day, not working, skiving off the client? Posting tulip on CUK?

FTFY

[psychocandy]

How does your Mrs feel about these lazy dossers who just lie around all day, not working, skiving off the state?

Ha ha

[Montyuk]

Ha ha

if someone wants to send their kids to private school thats their choice it isnt for you to question this.

not all men want their oh working and its nothing to do with being stuck in the 1950s

[WTFH]

if someone wants to send their kids to private school thats their choice it isnt for you to question this.

not all men want their oh working and its nothing to do with being stuck in the 1950s

There's nothing wrong with OHs not working, and there's nothing wrong with sending kids to private school, but if you then want to complain about having no money, well you have to look at ways of either reducing your spending or increasing your income (or both).
That's basic economics, but is lost on some who want a solution that doesn't affect their current lifestyle.