Property News · July 14, 2018

‘I’m on £14,500 a year and it’s a knife-edge lifestyle’


Children’s services support officer Claire Mynott on her finances – and why it is a scandal how little women are paidI live on the brink. I work 35 hours for 39 weeks plus five weeks’ paid leave and, as a result of recent changes, three of us are doing the job of five, which means we are always playing catch-up.I’m now on £14,512 a year. It’s a knife-edge lifestyle. I just scrape by, but if anything unexpected happens it tips me over the edge and I have to borrow. At Christmas my boiler broke down and needed £300 worth of repairs and I had to borrow from my mother and pay her back in instalments. I still owe her £50. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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