The Cancer Tax: The Hidden Cost of Cancer & How I Afforded to Quit My Job

The Cancer Tax: The Hidden Cost of Cancer & How I Afforded to Quit My Job

Cancer is expensive. And I don’t just mean emotionally.


There’s a hidden financial cost that comes with a cancer diagnosis: reduced income, sick leave, hospital travel, heating bills, wigs, post-surgery bras, childcare, changing the way you work… all while you’re trying to recover from the small matter of having bloody cancer.

In this episode, I’m talking about the cancer tax, the costs nobody really warns you about , and sharing my own experience of returning to work after treatment, cutting my hours, eventually leaving teaching altogether, and how I planned financially to make that possible.

I also share some of the support I wish I’d known about sooner, including PIP, Universal Credit, ESA, ill-health retirement, reasonable adjustments and critical illness insurance, plus why finding your own financial “enough point” can give you more options than you realise.

Because sometimes the goal after cancer isn’t earning as much money as possible.

Sometimes it’s having enough money and enough of your life left over to actually enjoy it.


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