I hope you can help me out here

OmiOmi

This is the thing.... Me and my wife have been living here for about 5 months and we both have permanent jobs at IBM. Now.... We are thinking of having a baby. But the thing is that we cant live with only one salary. I've seen so many couple when only one works, so I wonder if there is some sort of "help" you get from the state... not social services but... its hard to explain. In sweden you get 2 things. one is called childsupport and you get around 100pounds a month for each child you have and the second one is parentsupport which gives you around 300-400 pounds a month.

How does it work here?

MiCr0

completely off topic, but where in .se are u from?

MiCr0

also
have a look here http://www.welfare.ie/dept/booklets/sw4/sect5.htm#5.4

and here aswell http://www.welfare.ie/dept/leaflets/sw42.htm

[This message has been edited by MiCr0 (edited 29-09-2000).]

C B

there is a £45 a month child benefit (which will probably go up in the next budget)if your wife stops working you will pay proportionatly less tax as you will take her tax free allowance. apart from that, if you earn enough to feed a budgie, you'll get fu(k all help. she will be entitled to 14 weeks paid maternity leave (possibly 20 next year).

Hobbes

Try contacting IBM HR as well or reading the IBM employee guide (I know the links just not posting them here )

OmiOmi

great help guys. I thought it was the right topic since its humanities... whatever


So... If I get 22k a year and i'm on table B.. if we get a child and the taxes reduced... what would I get after taxes?

C B

22K

(these are all rough figures)

Now you have c5k tax free allowance you pay 22% on the first 10k and 44% therafter so you should be getting roughly 16-17k after tax at the moment

if she has a child and stops working you'll get her allowances so you'll pay no tax on the firt 10k and 22% on the next twenty (you won't go into the highr band) so you'll get roughly 19k after tax.

these figures could be slightly out of date ( you could check them out at www.revenue.ie ) but the basic analysis is the same

table b refers to your PRSI class and i don't think it will change.

OmiOmi

Thanx a million d00d

PhilipMarlowe

Originally posted by C B:
...she will be entitled to 14 weeks paid maternity leave (possibly 20 next year)....

This is a percentage of her salary up to a maximum amount which will just about feed a budgie... sorry i dont have the figures, but afaik, the max is about £173 pw.