How do they work out this income?

Kimberley

Spendless wrote:

My guess Kimberley is it's going to be how much you will have to pay in rent council tax and whether you receive maintainance or not which will affect what you do.

Yeah i guess so , thanks for all your inputs :beer: I'll let you know tomorrow what they say and whether or not i will take this leaflet job

Spendless

helen21 wrote:

If kimberly is working less than 16 hours but not getting IS cause she earns to much, the she will prob get free meals because she is only claiming CTC, but total income will need to be less than £13k

Yes that's right. She can only get fee school dinners if she works less than 16 hours because working 16 hours or more will put her on WTC. But to be honest unless you've got the most brilliantly paid paid time job who is going to be able to afford to not be on IS cos you're over income and not be on WTC cos you're not doing enough hours

Kimberley

helen21 wrote:

If kimberly is working less than 16 hours but not getting IS cause she earns to much, the she will prob get free meals because she is only claiming CTC, but total income will need to be less than £13k

Yikes this is all confusing i'll know by tomorrow

helen21_2

Spendless wrote:

Right I'm with you now I think. So if your IS is £120 a wek say you can earn £119 and just keep £20 but you have a problem if you earn £121. Is that what you mean.
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Yes :T :T :T
But because you only claim IS now for yourself what IS pay is not a vast amount and can be achieved by few hours but not enough hours to claim WTC so basically people will be in the crap

Kimberley

Spendless wrote:

But to be honest unless you've got the most brilliantly paid paid time job who is going to be able to afford to not be on IS cos you're over income and not be on WTC cos you're not doing enough hours

Yes i will, i'll make sure the leaflet job takes 6 hours instead of 5 and with my 10 hour dinner lady job, i'll be sorted hopefully

Spendless

Kimberley wrote:

Yes i will, i'll make sure the leaflet job takes 6 hours instead of 5 and with my 10 hour dinner lady job, i'll be sorted hopefully

LOL this is what helen is saying- you need to add your dinner lady money and leaflet money together. If that amount is more than your IS then you can't be on IS but you can't claim WTC cos you don't work 16 hours. So you'll live on your wages plus CTC. I have no idea whether you'd be able to do that and get help with rent,council tax this way.

When you find out the answer from CAB etc let us know.

clazza_3

If your claiming as a loan parent it might be worth seeing the New Deal loan parent adviser at the jobcentre. If you are working over 16 hours there may be additional financial help available to you

Kimberley

Spendless wrote:

LOL this is what helen is saying- you need to add your dinner lady money and leaflet money together. If that amount is more than your IS then you can't be on IS but you can't claim WTC cos you don't work 16 hours. So you'll live on your wages plus CTC. I have no idea whether you'd be able to do that and get help with rent,council tax this way.

When you find out the answer from CAB etc let us know.

Yes i think i'll wait until tomorrow until i get the correct figures So what you are saying is that as my wages will be more then my IS, but less then 16 hours a week. I will be able to still claim housing benefit etc and live off my wages as well as CTC? Geez i need some asprin

Kimberley

clazza wrote:

If your claiming as a loan parent it might be worth seeing the New Deal loan parent adviser at the jobcentre. If you are working over 16 hours there may be additional financial help available to you

Thats where i'm going tomorrow

Spendless

Kimberley wrote:

Yes i think i'll wait until tomorrow until i get the correct figures So what you are saying is that as my wages will be more then my IS, but less then 16 hours a week. I will be able to still claim housing benefit etc and live off my wages as well as CTC? Geez i need some asprin

Yes apart from I don't know if you can still claim housing benefit etc. Let us know the answer cos I'm interested.