Your Dilemma You are offered a promotion to Shift Lead that paysLinks to an external site. $18.25 an hour with a 40-hour work week and no benefits. Your new gross pay would be $730 a week. Your co-parent's minimum wage, 15-hour a week job grosses $239.40 a week. Your work hours now overlap, so you'll need to pay a babysitter about $150 per week. And you'll lose all of your SNAP and CalWorks benefits because your income will go over the eligibility limit. You can still keep MediCal, but your share-of-cost will be higher when you go to the doctor, and your toddler is due for a well-baby check-up and routine booster shots. With this new income, Medi-Cal will only help with your costs in months when you spend at least $2,155 in medical costs