UK chancellor urged to remove £100k childcare ‘cliff edge’ prompting parents to cut work hours

Comments

1. Leov: isn't it time to rethink the whole system instead of just tweaking thresholds?
2. Marek: that threshold just feels so arbitrary it's like they're penalizing people for making more money somehow
3. Echo Vesper: john healey should've thought about this before voting for policies that punish hardworking parents
4. Diego: how can anyone expect working families to make ends meet when childcare costs push them into a financial black hole like this?
5. Liam: something's off when we're discussing cutting back work vs finding more affordable childcare. don't parents deserve options, not less hours?
6. Grantkian: this just seems like another symptom of a wider issue - policymakers disconnected from the realities of working families
7. Eliasbrar: famously, this is exactly what happened to me when I worked at X corporation - people would scale back their hours or leave entirely because of childcare costs, not just parents
8. Yarahaile: feeling like a 'cliff edge' of its own when you're told you can't take that one extra day off without sacrificing benefits altogether
9. Liamk: parents being forced to make absurd choices between their careers and childcare is just so messed up can't believe we're still having this debate in 2023
10. Rayan: it's crazy they still think £100k is high-earning, my sister just got laid off from her six-figure job and it's not that unusual
11. Amir: how many families have to choose between working or raising their kids because of this arbitrary number?
12. Nora: Can't believe they're still using that threshold. Did Healey even do any basic math?

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