Maternity pay going up
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Topic: Maternity pay going up
Posted By: Roksana
Subject: Maternity pay going up
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 11:55am
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I heard this morning that the maternity leave pay is going up from next month from 391 a week to 407 a week.
YAY!! a whole $16 more. I will be rich!!!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: IVFGirl1111
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:07pm
Where did you hear that? Oh well least its going up not down I guess! 
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:27pm
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It was at Breakfast news (TV1).
Yah I guess so...but when you earn 3 x more now...its a bit hard to digest!! Oh well! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:52pm
Stop complaining Roksana - you can buy a whole block of cheese with that!   ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:04pm
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 2:30pm
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I dont like cheese...Mah!! LOL
You should complain Ginger ...with your shopping addiction and all....  LOL------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 2:37pm
Hmmm ... yes, I know! Funny how a single income deals with *that* little obsession!   I can't even load up on lots of baby stuff because we have to be careful of our budget starting right now! 
(How can you not like cheese?? Seriously!!) ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Roksana wrote:Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 2:38pm
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OK. I have one. $16.00 will pay for enough petrol for you to drive to your letterbox from your house ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 3:08pm
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You don't like cheese? Seriously?? Well ok, miore for me and ginger!!! mwahahahahahahaha.
And ginger - I'm sure $16 will go further than the letterbox. At least 2 metres past surely!!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 3:54pm
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No I am not into Dairy products at all...so I do eat cheese but only if it comes with some thing....burger!!
We dont really buy cheese at home. If we do it sits there and sits there and sits there....LOL My bad $16 - Tax = Crap all.... 
Just talking to WINZ and IRD to see what help we would get if I stayed home for longer. Sad to say...but becuase I have a high Salary we will get = $0.00 a week. YAY!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 3:58pm
but surely if you are home you are not working, therefore earning nothing?! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 4:00pm
Ok so I guess you are only driving to the letterbox huh? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 4:03pm
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and $16 a week is quite a lot really, especially when you work it out as a lump sum.
thats five lots of 2 litre milk ... 16 loaves of $1 bread ... a couple of packs of mince and maybe some sausages too! a latte and a muffin and maybe a train ride at buttefly creek for your kid! but not all at once of course... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 4:10pm
Nah they look at your Year income. If I dont work at all for three months (not inc the 14 weeks) then we get $70. And if I work only 20 hours a week (Like I am planning) then we get nothing. It will be better off that I work from home 20 hours a week and get extra cash. Cant depend on the govt to give me any thing....
Oh well! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 4:44pm
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You could buy a lot of lollies for that |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 6:49pm
ROFL!!! When I saw your title I must admit that I was expecting a bit more increase than that! -------------  |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 10:14am
LMFAO!!! ...or cry bcos its true! lol
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Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 06 June 2008 at 5:18pm
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I heard a rumour that Labour are going to make PPL for 6 months, up from 14 weeks. No doubt too late for me (whinge moan).
But yes, that $16 will be good to pay for my newly acquired chocolate habit ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 06 June 2008 at 5:31pm
when when please say before dec 08....pleeeeaaassseee!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 06 June 2008 at 7:32pm
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The budget has already come out this year, which means it probably won't come into effect until at least May 09 (next budget) - sorry! Will be interesting to see if it becomes an election issue. ------------- |
Posted By: Maya
Date 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... ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: mummyofprinces
Date Posted: 07 June 2008 at 9:59pm
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Forgive my ignorance, is parental leave taxed?
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Posted By: SarahP08
Date 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. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 08 June 2008 at 4:03pm
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Well that sucks! I didn't know that part! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 09 June 2008 at 10:27am
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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 ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: fire_engine
Date 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. ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 10 June 2008 at 10:38am
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YES I will Benefit...$26 dollars a week. YAY!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 10 June 2008 at 11:07am
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The families commission has put together a summary report called "it's about time" asking for paid parental leave to be increased (both time and money). Here's a link to the report http://www.familiescommission.govt.nz/files/parental-leave-summary.pdf - http://www.familiescommission.govt.nz/files/parental-leave-summary.pdf (don't worry, it's brief and not at all boring especially since it's so relevant to most of us). If the government go with the recommendations in the report it'll be more inline with other developed countries and it will be brilliant for NZ families. -------------  
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 10 June 2008 at 12:16pm
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oh yah...lets just hope this comes to play before I give birth. But knowing the *^$@&%$#@ govt. I wouldnt hold my breath! They like to suck money out of you but not give any thing back!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 10 June 2008 at 1:22pm
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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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Posted By: tishy
Date 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. |
Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 10 June 2008 at 2:03pm
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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 By: fire_engine
Date 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!! ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 10 June 2008 at 5:48pm
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May be our kids will be lucky ones to recev this service...... ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: maysie
Date Posted: 13 June 2008 at 7:00pm
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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. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: maysie
Date Posted: 13 June 2008 at 7:01pm
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and I love cheese. Can't live without it ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Roksana
Date 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!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 5:51pm
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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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Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 20 June 2008 at 3:52pm
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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 ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 20 June 2008 at 5:21pm
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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! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 20 June 2008 at 6:11pm
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We don't run out of student loan money by the end of the week, I know how to budget! I'm just really careful with what little we're given. If people didn't spend all their money on flash cars/smokes/alcohol/drugs/gambling/junk food etc then they shouldn't have a problem with running out of their benefit! -------------
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 20 June 2008 at 6:27pm
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That's such a charming way of thinking of it. -------------
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Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 20 June 2008 at 6:31pm
Yeah, I try my best to look at the glass half full kinda thing -------------
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 20 June 2008 at 8:42pm
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There is more good news.... WFF tax credits are going up in October this year. You can see your entitlement on the IRD calculators. Looks like about $20/week for us. ------------- |
Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 1:15pm
Good on you for budgeting but not every one is like you....I am sorry but I have heard too many stories and it seems sooo common. You are right they spend it all on smokes, alcohol and junk food. ITS SAD!! Not to be mean or any thing but we always laugh to see KFC, MCD's busy on Thursday night.... ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: IVFGirl1111
Date Posted: 23 June 2008 at 1:25pm
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Hey is it true that the PPL is looking at going up to a year rather than 14 weeks?
ETA - Sorry ignore this post - I just read the first page PROPERLY and some kind person there has mentioned about it :) |