Working for Families

I work fulltime and my partner is a fulltime student, because he is not eligable for any student subsidies because of my income, while I was off work on maternity leave we could claim accomodation supplement (we cant now as I earn above the theashold because im back at work).

So it depends on your personal situation if you can or not

Why is it that if one of you is a student, and one works full-time, are you no longer eligible for WFF? I don't get that. You still meet all the requirements for WFF.

I think if you're getting study help then it is hard to get the WFF. DH is off study at the moment until we can afford to pay for his papers outright because of this.

Silly though since we're basically using the WFF money to do it

Raspberryjam wrote: If you are above the threshold you are deemed rich end of story!!

The thresholds are quite high though!

The threshold is $74000 ish, not that high really when you live in auckland

Bizzy wrote: raspberryjam i consider that quite high!

Really! Ok well I dont know other people live then. It works out just over $4 k a month, thats not much is it?

PS - if we didnt live in auckland it would be brilliant!!

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minik8e wrote: Bobbie wrote: I think if you're getting study help then it is hard to get the WFF. DH is off study at the moment until we can afford to pay for his papers outright because of this. Silly though since we're basically using the WFF money to do it This is what I found, so I elected not to get a Student Allowance or any study help other than a student loan. We are well under the threshold too.

Oh so we are entitled because SD isnt eligable for any help through studylink because of my income? That makes a litte more sense.

Raspberryjam wrote: Bizzy wrote: raspberryjam i consider that quite high! Really! Ok well I dont know other people live then. It works out just over $4 k a month, thats not much is it? PS - if we didnt live in auckland it would be brilliant!!

No it wouldnt Central Otago is hideously expensive. Our house prices are high (comparable to Auckland), our fuel costs are high, our food prices are high, our power....dont even get me started....and then we have to travel to shop...or have babies.   

$74000 is a reasonable income...but its still hard to support a family on one income if you have a large mortgage. We earn a little more than that with me working part time but we are paying at least half our earnings in mortgages (we have a rental property that we need to top up). We are managing...JUST.

The thing I dont like about WFF is that when Tom was born, DH was earning minimum wage (we had just returned from overseas and its all he could get at the time) so we were literally on bones of our arse. We were entitled to WFF....it was great..it got us through the tough patch. However, then he got a "real" job and I contacted IRD who adjusted our amount...fair enough...but that made things harder. Then I started working part time as we really needed more money...so our WFF stopped. Fair enough....BUT......then we had to pay it all back as over the whole year we had earnt too much. I think that sucks!!!

Wow - 74000! Thanks to a recent change of circumstance, I'm on 14000 a year...

RaspberryJam - we are only entitled to WFF this year as I took maternity leave (so was earning nothing) so my income was drastically reduced for this financial year, otherwise we would not be eligable.

Now that we have two kiddies, we will be entitled to WFF in the next financial year, however it will be a very small amount (but better than the nothing we were getting)