The past couple of months have been so stressful in the financial area of my life (like most people's). Wednesday finally solved everything! I got my Maternity Allowance go ahead! I was so excited! I will be receiving the same amount as I was when I was working. Finally, we will have the money that we have been missing since the end of June (because I got sick pay all Summer, which amounts to half pay, and I haven't gotten anything for the past month and a half because my managers at work are incompetent). I was also told that I will be finally getting my holiday pay on Friday (after I had to do my manager's job and harass people myself).
I just can't believe everything finally worked out. Even if my holiday pay is screwed up again this week (and I am assuming it will until I see the money in my bank), I have the go ahead on my Maternity Allowance.
To recap my Thankful Anyway:
The last couple of months have been really crap, not knowing where my paycheck was, how much it would be for or if I would be getting any pay at all. I have had to fight with my managers and do their jobs for them. I have had to be mean to my husband because I wanted to make sure we could pay our bills.
But I am Thankful Anyway because...
It all paid off in the end! Now I know where my pay is coming from and I can accurately assess our finances again. We are going to be back to where we were when I was working (which although is still fraught with debt, we were able to pay our bills and our debts on time without borrowing from anyone). We can also start buying the little things we need to get ready for the Sprout, which is of great comfort to me.
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Yea Jess, persistance pays off...I wish I would get paid maternity leave...
When you have the sprout, check out the Child Tax credits info, you might be able to get those tax credits. They work it out and pay money into your account every month. You can fill a form in on the website to see if you will be eligable.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/Taxcredits/
If you could get that, you might end up even better off.
Rich makes too much money for us to get tax credits, but it is interesting that as long as I reside full time in the UK, I could get them if Rich didn't make as much money. You would think they would reserve tax credits for UK citizens (or I suppose people who work, which I do, so I just collapsed my whole thing there).
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