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Maya 
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 Posted: 07 June 2008 at 8:18pm |
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See I think that $16 a week is awesome compared with the tax cuts they've so generously given us of $6 a week...
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mummyofprinces
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Posted: 07 June 2008 at 9:59pm |
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Forgive my ignorance, is parental leave taxed?
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SarahP08
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Posted: 08 June 2008 at 2:08pm |
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Yes it is, at the same rate as it was when you were working.
So for me I'll still have to pay my student loan despite the fact that I'll be earning under the threashold for the financial year.
If you are in a high income tax bracket, you'll be paying more tax on your $407 per week than someone in a lower income bracket.
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Maya
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Posted: 08 June 2008 at 4:03pm |
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Well that sucks! I didn't know that part!
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Roksana
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Posted: 09 June 2008 at 10:27am |
Oh yah....thanks to my high income now that means I will see very little from that ML pay.
Sucks! Thanks God I have Mortgage Holiday during the 14 weeks...Or I would be in trouble.
GOD dont you love it?
I was talking to my Auntie in Canada yesterday and she said their paid parental leave is for a year. WOW NZ is sooo behind. Most European countries are the same. Cant understand why NZ cant follow suit? Arrrggg 
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fire_engine
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Posted: 09 June 2008 at 4:38pm |
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Will you benefit at all from the raising of the top tax bracket? Think it's gone from 60,000 to 70,000.
Am with you on the TGF mortgage holidays.
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Roksana
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 10:38am |
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YES I will Benefit...$26 dollars a week. YAY!!
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MrsMojo
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 11:07am |
The families commission has put together a summary report called "it's about time" asking for paid parental leave to be increased (both time and money). Here's a link to the report http://www.familiescommission.govt.nz/files/parental-leave-summary.pdf (don't worry, it's brief and not at all boring especially since it's so relevant to most of us).
If the government go with the recommendations in the report it'll be more inline with other developed countries and it will be brilliant for NZ families.
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Roksana
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 12:16pm |
oh yah...lets just hope this comes to play before I give birth. But knowing the *^$@&%$#@ govt. I wouldnt hold my breath! They like to suck money out of you but not give any thing back!!
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MrsMojo
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 1:22pm |
The families commisson is asking for staged changes over the next 7 years so that by 2015 NZers get 13 months of fully paid parental leave. 2015 seems an awfully long time away and nothing's guarenteed until it goes through parliament (and even then the next government could scrap it).
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tishy
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 1:25pm |
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In Ireland it's 6 months paid and a year unpaid. AND childrens allowance isn't means tested, so even if you are a SAHM you can still feel like you're contributing something to the household financially.
14 weeks is wayyyy too short.
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 2:03pm |
 tishy wrote:
14 weeks is wayyyy too short.
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I agree. I stayed home for 5 months and it wasn't until about 3 months that Michaela and I really settled into a good routine and were enjoying our time together rather than just coping. It wasn't until 10 months that she actually started settling in the evenings and sleeping through the night so until then I was working fulltime at work and fulltime at home too - I was a zombie!
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 2:51pm |
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By 2015 I will definitely be at the end of my reproducing, I hope!!
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Roksana
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Posted: 10 June 2008 at 5:48pm |
May be our kids will be lucky ones to recev this service......
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maysie
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Posted: 13 June 2008 at 7:00pm |
Don't worry Roksana, we don't qualify for anything frm the govt either. We just pay tons of tax and pay private for other things too. I'm probably not going back to work and we still won't get anything. I'm sure there are countries where you dont get anything at all no matter what your income so it def could be worse. No more Sat morning shopping sprees for me though  BUT Id rather be in this position than not.
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Posted: 13 June 2008 at 7:01pm |
and I love cheese. Can't live without it
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Roksana
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Posted: 14 June 2008 at 5:46pm |
yuah maysie...I know will be fine too...but you know it just seems unfair that all the taxes we pay never really comes back to us!!! 
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AliaDawn
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Posted: 14 June 2008 at 5:51pm |
Roksana, the way I see it tax evens things out - We don't have a bunch of homeless people all over the streets because of it etc, and would probably be more crime and things if people didn't have benefits, so maybe you do get things out of it in ways that aren't so obvious at first? I think our country is a much safer place to raise our kids because of things like that.
Tax is a bit like a modern day robin hood 
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Natalie_G
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Posted: 20 June 2008 at 3:52pm |
I love cheese, its my fav food at the moment
I think NZ should have paid leave for 1 year like European countries.
I will be paying student loan fees aswell, bummer no break for anything.
I have told my husband that I want a year off, I feel I deserve it. We all do.
I will have to find a way to pay my debts for one year 
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Roksana
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Posted: 20 June 2008 at 5:21pm |
Alia - I agree we dont have homeless ppl...but the ppl in Dol are always running out of money before the week is over (I have a friend with inside knowledge). With recent crime on the news its making me wonder....????
but seriously tho, some one like me who has worked all my "Working life" and never ever had dol...then I want to take a year off to spend time with my Babies.....the govt will not give me any thing?? seems really unfair too me. No matter how I look at it!
I dont know...I have cousins in Europe and Canada etc and they always tell me of the benefits and I see NZ as lagging behind!
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Maternity pay going up
