Please be gentle with me... am feeling quite fragile and have never claimed anything other than £15 CTC and don't know what the hell I'm doing. :(
Basically I'm thinking of leaving my husband, or rather asking him to leave. Not the place to go into it but sick as I even feel thinking about it, I don't think I can carry on living like this.
I need to work out if I can actually afford to stay where we are, we're only one month into a 6 month lease and I've moved my oldest 3 times in the last year now so I really want to stay, but I'm painfully aware the rent and house size is ridiculously large for just me and two small kids (1&3).
I work two days a week, 14 hours and it's about £550 a month pay. No childcare costs as my mum has them when I work.
I did the entitledto checker and it says I'd get about £345 a week if it were just me & kids. That seems really high, or am I wrong? That added to me wage + child maintenance (I know he'd pay without a doubt) would leave me with quite a lot monthly.
Which I wouldn't complain about as it means we could stay here but it seems too high? I daren't even think about doing anything if I'm not absolutely certain we can still afford to live here, otherwise I think I'd need to wait unless things really escalate.
ETA: I will be going back fulltime when both the kids are in school but obviously that's a few years off yet.
Basically I'm thinking of leaving my husband, or rather asking him to leave. Not the place to go into it but sick as I even feel thinking about it, I don't think I can carry on living like this.
I need to work out if I can actually afford to stay where we are, we're only one month into a 6 month lease and I've moved my oldest 3 times in the last year now so I really want to stay, but I'm painfully aware the rent and house size is ridiculously large for just me and two small kids (1&3).
I work two days a week, 14 hours and it's about £550 a month pay. No childcare costs as my mum has them when I work.
I did the entitledto checker and it says I'd get about £345 a week if it were just me & kids. That seems really high, or am I wrong? That added to me wage + child maintenance (I know he'd pay without a doubt) would leave me with quite a lot monthly.
Which I wouldn't complain about as it means we could stay here but it seems too high? I daren't even think about doing anything if I'm not absolutely certain we can still afford to live here, otherwise I think I'd need to wait unless things really escalate.
ETA: I will be going back fulltime when both the kids are in school but obviously that's a few years off yet.
