She said she had taken time off to look after her daughter, which meant her husband was the sole source of income. <\/p>\n
She said: “Obviously I’m out of work at the moment, looking after my little one, because work versus childcare is the balance. <\/p>\n
“There is a lot more to balance when you are living off one wage. There is a lot more I’m having to think about, like what is affordable to buy versus what is then also going in the bin.”<\/p>\n
The BBC contacted the States of Guernsey on Tuesday to ask what it was doing to assist people with the cost of living crisis locally. <\/p>\n
So far, there has been no response. <\/p>\n
In Jersey, Minister for Social Security, Deputy Lyndsay Feltham said she appreciated the impact the cost of living was having on families. <\/p>\n
To support people with the cost of living crisis, Feltham said the States was “transitioning towards a living wage, with the first step made in April when the minimum wage increased to \u00a313”. <\/p>\n
She added: “There is also help available through income support, with rates increasing by 8.6% in 2024 and again by 4% this January.”<\/p>\n
The Minister for Treasury and Resources Deputy Elaine Millar added: “It is a slight concern to see inflation rising once more, but we’re thankful that the numbers remain relatively low compared to recent years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said she had taken time off to look after her daughter, which meant her husband was the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-20175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}