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what are the implications if you give up work to look after your kids?
Been toying with this idea for a while and I can’t find a solution .
My current employer is cutting back on expenses and has already laid one of my colleagues off , I was told that i would have to take a pay cut and return my company car and take a wage cut due to the business struggling.
I’m a single parent so without the car its a bind to get the children back and forward to school (they are quite young )
I am looking at other jobs I am now office bound and cannot get to interviews and am worried that if I jack in that i will not be entitled to any benefits in the unlikeley scenario that I do not get another job elsewhere.
I’m in a similar position. Its going to cost me more to go back to work then what i’ll actually earn and because my partner is on a descent wage I’m not entitled to much financial help (even though the majority of his wage goes on bills and the mortgage). Im in a predicament where if i stay off work, we loose money and if i go back ill be working for nothing
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