Benefits check up guide and tool discussion

orkneyviking · 5 May 2011 at 1:37PM

We are also in the position of having a household income just under £42k and I wondered if your earnings did increase through the year (e.g. pay rise) and you come above £42k, then would you need to pay the whole years tax credits back?

diceydeb · 14 May 2011 at 12:04AM

Watch out cos it tells u to put in your incapacity benefit . this is wrong if u were getting it since before 1995 ( when it was called invalidity) i know this cos i lost out for years on unclaimed tax credits due to putting my OH incapacity down as accountable income.

smiggi.123 · 6 June 2011 at 5:38PM

hi my son's ema will stop soon and he is wanting to get a 16hr a week job the thing is I am on income support as the hubby is ill and he recieves dla for his illness before my son goes and gets a job I want to know if it will affect anything such as income support housing benefit as I don't want him working and then having to pay our rent etc ....we also have other children 2 sisters and 2 grandchildren that were in care living with us so you see why I am concerned to whether it will affect anything he wants a 16hr a week job he is gonna stay on at college during this time till he is 20yrs as he is starting a new course aswell
thankyou for your time

dmg24 · 6 June 2011 at 6:37PM

smiggi.123 wrote: »

hi my son's ema will stop soon and he is wanting to get a 16hr a week job the thing is I am on income support as the hubby is ill and he recieves dla for his illness before my son goes and gets a job I want to know if it will affect anything such as income support housing benefit as I don't want him working and then having to pay our rent etc ....we also have other children 2 sisters and 2 grandchildren that were in care living with us so you see why I am concerned to whether it will affect anything he wants a 16hr a week job he is gonna stay on at college during this time till he is 20yrs as he is starting a new course aswell
thankyou for your time

Gosh, wouldn't it be terrible if anyone in your household actually paid any rent! :eek:

JimmyTheWig · 7 June 2011 at 9:28AM

dmg24 wrote: »

Gosh, wouldn't it be terrible if anyone in your household actually paid any rent! :eek:

In this instance, yes, I think that it would be a shame if a teenager got himself a job to get himself a bit of spending money while he was at college and ended up having to pay rent for the whole household.
We should, as a society, be teaching this lad that going to work is a good idea. Not that there's no point.

Ed_Jogg · 28 July 2011 at 6:25PM

I tried using the tool mainly to check the Tax Credits allowance -- on a salary of £45k (gross) it says we are entitled to nothing. OK. That matches what the letters have told me.

Found that there were more pages, so carried on using the tool.
It got stuck at "Step 7 -- Net Earnings", giving me the error box:

We can not calculate your income tax bill correctly as you are affected by the withdrawal of personal allowances for people with incomes over £100,000.

and not allowing me to progress any further. Pressing 'Next' just reloads the same page.
So, as it takes me several years to earn over £100k, what's up with it?

NB -- I'm not expecting any benefits, considering my salary -- we used to qualify for a little CTC and it certainly helped ease the bringing up of three children on a single wage with a large mortgage, etc -- but I thought the tool was supposed to help me check.

andypandy2309 · 29 December 2011 at 7:14PM

I can't believe those people who are bringing home over 40k are looking to claim benefits !!!

h0tp0t1 · 5 January 2012 at 11:13PM

Is this tool up to date? The figures may only be a rough guide, but how rough? It was miles out for my situation I wish I could get half of what it calculates!!!! makes you think the massive fight through the paperwork may be worth it - but it's not!!!!!!

chloew1 · 20 January 2012 at 6:19PM

hi the cheeker was right BUT from june 2012 no more smi means help with morgage payments intrest only so have to find £50 aweek out of £105 we are a couple so £52 each food gas elc etc mission impossible max

oldtractor · 20 January 2012 at 6:29PM

it tel me i am entited to council tax benefit. i have tried to claim but the council say I am not entitled to it.

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