Tax credits

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By kerry.

Re: Tax credits
Mon 14 Jul 2008 18:09

hi sofie
I tell ya what winds me up:
ya know when you fill those forms in on line for insurance/holidays/ etc etc
they give you a drop down list of what you do for a living, and itll say maybe
employed
unemplyed
student and so on
so you click on employed. then you get another list of particular jobs, and one will say 'care' so you click on this and itll say type in your job title so you type in informal carer and it comes up 'unknown' or 'error'
even if you just type in 'carer' the same thing happens.

why is this?
ill tell you why...
COS WE DONT CHUFFING EXIST, THATS WHY.

By loopy

Re: Tax credits
Mon 14 Jul 2008 18:28

whenever anyone asks me what i do for work i always tell them that i work 2 jobs. The first and most important one is being a carer and the second is working in my local school of a dinnertime ( yes i am a lunchtime supervisor, i.e dinnerlady, and no i am not like the horrible fat ones that we had as kids.....lol, i am a trendy dinner lady and i dont make the kids eat there greens if they dont want them....lol)

By sofie

Re: Tax credits
Mon 14 Jul 2008 21:33

Hi Kerry and Loopy, You are right we are not really valued by some people, it is as if we are invisible and do not exist[ only to the people we care for ] I have been near to exhaustion at times and the stress is sometimes too much to take but I carry on because I know that the person I care for appreciates me and cannot cope without me so it is all worth while.Loopy, my dinner ladies made me eat parsley sauce when I was a child and I could not stand it for years. You are doing two great jobs and it cannot be easy. People need to register the fact that carers do work and work very hard with no proper breaks, time off or holidays sometimes. Who would do a job with those terms and conditions? No one I bet.This is a seven days a week job and its about time we were recognised for it. Sadly I do not think we are by some people. Sofie xxx

By Tricia

Re: Tax credits
Mon 14 Jul 2008 22:48

up date

Rang the council this morning and the phone rang and rang and rang and rang and rang and rang and kept saying that the phones were busy and that I would get my call answered as soon as someone became available.

I ended up emailing them but still no answer and if my local council services email system is anything to go by I know I won't get a reply but going to give them until Wednesday morning if no reply shall just keep on the phone until I get sorted.

other wise I shall just cancel my direct debit at the bank and shall pay the amount which I have been doing so at the post office until they can get this sorted out.

I am a single parent and a carers allowance and topped up with income support struggling to get my daughter through uni so she can have a better life and my other son has only been able to find part time work. Some weeks he earns less than he would on job seekers allowance but he still gives me out the money to pay for his council tax which he has been set to pay along with the interest on my morgage which previously got it paid. I would ain't care my monthly morgage is just over a weeks rent had I been renting I would of got most of it paid along with repairs and have my home kept up to a livable standard.

Only thing is I would not be living in the hosue which is ideal for my son's disability.

Oh well win some and you loose some as they say but I keep wondering why it is that what goes around comes around.

What did I do?

By ColinB

Re: Tax credits
Tue 15 Jul 2008 00:07

thing is, even if they did give you the tax credits..they would take it straight back off you in some other way anyway

By loopy

Re: Tax credits
Tue 15 Jul 2008 08:07

funny thing is, my son saved up for his first car. He has now got more money than me and his dad put togeather!!!