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Yes it unlikely i grant you but the legal redress is there. I'm not aware of too many women who can afford to take a whole year off or who can afford to not return to work.

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domestic engineer

About the interest or about the numbers of bloodied sofas?

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I've just had a UKIP election leaflet through the door. UKIP are an anti-immigration party. Our local UKIP candidate is one Nikolai Tolstoy. His father was a Russian emigré. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Tolstoy I think that's quite weird.

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If you look at the direct gov website it is quite clear. If you get a state pension you will automtically get the winter fuel payment. If you got it last year (for reasons other than being a pensioner) you will continue to get it automatically. If you didn't get it last year for reasons other than being a pensioner, you will have to apply. But if you didn't get it last year because you weren't a pensioner last year, you will automatically get it this year if you have now become a pensioner. How to get your Winter Fuel Payment You should automatically get the Winter Fuel Payment without applying if you have reached the qualifying age by 26 September 2010, and either: you got a Winter Fuel Payment last winter and you still meet the conditions for getting it you got State Pension or another benefit except Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit or Child Benefit during the week of 20–26 September 2009 http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Pensionsandretirementplanning/Benefits/BenefitsInRetirement/DG_10018657

The best solution would be to stop everyone having babies or to only allow fathers to have leave then Interesting to see how we compare with Europe and the rest of the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#Europe (scroll towards the bottom of the page)

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I think he's an academic there? Lost touch with them when they emigrated. I think his wife was quite ill with cancer at one time. When he got 'de-elected' he lived quite near us in Oxfordshire whilst fronting an ITV / Channel 4 current affairs programme. But we really knew him from our Southampton days.

Rubbish - the winter fuel allowance is paid automatically. There are no forms to fill out. It goes to everyone who receives a state pension. Age Concern offer a service whereby they help elderly people fill out claim forms for other benefits as do, for example, charities for the blind and disabled. Citizens Advice Bureau offer the same sort of service. But the reluctance to take up entitlement is worrying.

Yes there is - you can sue her for breach of contract if she doesn't give you notice. If her notice period (in normal circumstances and according to her Contract of Employment) is one month then that's the notice she has to give you of her intention to not return to work.

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Absolutely right. This is the question I posed to DellDays but he's chosen not to answer. I suppose it would probably cost more for those children to put into care than it would to sustain this level of benefit.