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Not returning to work after maternity leave?

  • 24-09-2019 09:10AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9


    I’m due to go back to work on the 21st of October but because my partner pays out half his monthly pay on maintenance for his other kids we would not be able to afford child care for our two kids. I have already been to citizens advice they couldn’t help me as I’m not entitled to any schemes so myself and my partner have decided it’s best if I stay at home to mind the kids. So how do I go about leaving work and am I entitled to any benefits straight away as we can’t afford for me to take unpaid leave?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    If you don’t go back to work then you will be disqualified from Jobseekers Benefit for up to 9 weeks because you do not meet the criteria.
    This means that when you are eventually awarded JSB you will only get it for 6 months. And then you will have to show that you are looking for and available for full time work.
    Alternatively your partner can apply for WFP but only in respect of the child he has with you and the amount he pays in maintenance cannot be disregarded in the calculation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 WindWarrior


    Illness benefit might be a possibility to buy some time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Illness benefit might be a possibility to buy some time

    That’s true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,533 ✭✭✭combat14


    Gill1992 wrote: »
    I’m due to go back to work on the 21st of October but because my partner pays out half his monthly pay on maintenance for his other kids we would not be able to afford child care for our two kids. I have already been to citizens advice they couldn’t help me as I’m not entitled to any schemes so myself and my partner have decided it’s best if I stay at home to mind the kids. So how do I go about leaving work and am I entitled to any benefits straight away as we can’t afford for me to take unpaid leave?

    can your partner renegotiate current maintenance arrangement now that circumstances have substantially changed ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 Gill1992


    It’s a court order he would have to go through court again to renegotiate which would mean solicitor fees


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    Gill1992 wrote: »
    It’s a court order he would have to go through court again to renegotiate which would mean solicitor fees

    Honestly plenty of people represent themselves in family court, it's not difficult to do and the judges are usually reasonable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 Gill1992


    Honestly plenty of people represent themselves in family court, it's not difficult to do and the judges are usually reasonable.

    He represented himself the last three times the first two times the judge didn’t up the maintenance but the last time she put it up by a 300 euro for childcare fees for the mother knowing that I was just after starting maternity leave


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