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James Purnell, To get more mothers back to work should you not consider how the benefits system and in particular child tax credits and support for child care payments interact with self employment. Huge numbers of women return to work as self employed workers in order to get the flexibility they need for their children, thus making themselves more attractive to employers by forgoing paid holiday entitlement, pension contributions, NICs, employer tax etc. However they also forgo the entitement of their salaried, PAYE registered sisters for childcare support - for wich you need a formal employer and family tax credits. As a single mother for whom this was the only way to get back into work not being able to access any support for the flexible, part time child care I need (and which is quite expensive, I found this a heavy penalty
Asked by antigone on Mar 05 2009 8:17:57 PM and supported by 14 members MORE!

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