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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have done the math and given that we both wont get paid and still have bills to pay, we could just barely afford to pay her for 2 weeks. I suppose we will continue to do so because we have to. But I wish there was a better answer, because this means nearly depleting our savings.[/quote]

I'm sure I will be flamed for this, but... If two weeks of your nanny's salary will deplete your savings, you can't afford a nanny.

(I am a nanny. After taxes I take home $1200 every two weeks. I can't imagine your nanny makes THAT much more than me...)[/quote]

PP, it's not just two weeks of the nanny's salary that is the total of the family's savings.  A family with two Federal workers will have no income at all and THEY still have bills too.  So if this goes on for two weeks, OP is down two paychecks for the month, so her mortgage and whatever bills are coming out of the savings in addition to the nanny's salary.  Didn't she also say she just went on maternity leave?  Federal workers don't get maternity leave either - they take leave without pay.  So even assuming she used all of her annual leave, she probably still just took a month or so without a salary.  This whole "you can't afford a nanny" business is really odd to me.  She can actually - and has.  And if she can't afford to pay her for two weeks when the family has zero income (or she chooses not to because she wants to divert that money elsewhere or just save it), then she terminates the relationship with her nanny.  Nanny is free to find another job.  It sucks, but it sucks all around.[/quote]

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