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Childcare vouchers saved us | Diane Dawson

Source: guardian.co.uk Politics

Nov 11, 2009

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My house would have been repossessed if it wasn't for these vouchers. Now Labour is taking away our tax relief

I have two children aged seven and 11, and my mother-in-law took care of all of our childcare. I went back to work full time as an administration assistant.

Then two years ago, my mother-in-law died suddenly. One day she was fine and the next she had a heart attack, and that was it. I couldn't leave my job and the sudden change in cost from having no need for childcare to needing it every day after school and throughout the school holidays was horrendous.

Eventually we had to spend our savings – our outgoings were more than our incomings. Then we were forced to put our house up for sale, just as the bottom fell out of the housing market. We couldn't afford to go on, but we were unable to sell. It was horrible.

I work in a small company – there are only 10 of us and there was no provision for childcare vouchers, just because my employer wasn't aware that they existed. One day he asked me how I was doing and I became quite emotional as I began to explain t

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