Please Help!! What will we get??????

aj2703

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

The IOW has that effect on people in the bad weather - they go stir crazy!

Not at all... It's been a very nice sunny day here today and up untill i read this thread i was in a very good mood. Still am...:D

karenx

blue~skies wrote: »

For the last time: I appreciate having to answer questions that relate to my origibal questions in order that people can help me *BUT* as I said - I take offence at people saying things like 'you negotiate and they pay' - why is this relevant?? It isn't!

Thank you but tax credits are not benefits - they may be beneficial but child benefit is a seperate thing. Perhaps I should have specified that I won't be applying for means-tested benefits - just the £20 every household with a child is entitled to.

If your not applying for tax credits you wont get the sure start grant. You have just said you will only apply for child benefit

Oldernotwiser

aj2703 wrote: »

Not at all... It's been a very nice sunny day here today and up untill i read this thread i was in a very good mood. Still am...:D

No snowdrifts, then?

aj2703

alwaysonthego wrote: »

I think that you will find that the op's question as been answered.

Please can we keep this thread friendly even if you do not agree with posters answers, thank you.

It not a case of agreeing with others answers. It's a case of the OP asking a couple of simple questions that deserve simple answers, not jealously probed questions and questions that go way away from the question. In one of the posts by the op she was more or less certain that it would deviate from the questions in hand and had to put a further post in asking for this not to happen. See post 22. Jees....

aj2703

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

No snowdrifts, then?

Not yet but them clouds are a loomin......:D

alwaysonthego_2

aj2703 wrote: »

It not a case of agreeing with others answers. It's a case of the OP asking a couple of simple questions that deserve simple answers, not jealously probed questions and questions that go way away from the question. In one of the posts by the op she was more or less certain that it would deviate from the questions in hand and had to put a further post in asking for this not to happen. See post 22. Jees....

Is this board not to inform people about benefits. If the op does not realise that tax credits are means tested benefits she could end up with an overpayment, makes sense that it is pointed out to her.

aj2703

Post No's

6 Not revelent
8 Not revelent
11 Not revelent
13 Not revelent
14 not revelent in the fact the op wanted to find this out before a claim was put in hence the posts by the op.
17 first sentence revelent. Second sentence not as the op is trying to find out the information before putting claims in so this can be avoided.
18 Not revelent
25 Last sentence irrevelent.

aj2703

alwaysonthego wrote: »

Is this board not to inform people about benefits. If the op does not realise that tax credits are means tested benefits she could end up with an overpayment, makes sense that it is pointed out to her.

Yes it makes good sense. i am all for good advice it's just the stupid comments such as well couldn't you spend less on the car and use some of the money for savings..?... !!!!!!.. it's upto the op what they do with the cash and has been said it's a cash amount given by inlaws to buy a car, not to split it and save. I guess that if i were a mod, i'd ask the posters of such questions not to deviate from the origional question and to give a factual answer that relate to the question. But hey ho i'm not a mod, that is your job:D

alwaysonthego_2

aj2703 wrote: »

Yes it makes good sense. i am all for good advice it's just the stupid comments such as well couldn't you spend less on the car and use some of the money for savings..?... !!!!!!.. it's upto the op what they do with the cash and has been said it's a cash amount given by inlaws to buy a car, not to split it and save. I guess that if i were a mod, i'd ask the posters of such questions not to deviate from the origional question and to give a factual answer that relate to the question. But hey ho i'm not a mod, that is your job:D

I am a board guide, not a mod

There has been some confusion, which someone has admitted to what benefits the op was referring to. Deprivation of capital can have serious concequences and it is a valid question when dealing with income based benefits, but as I pointed out it is not relevant to TC unless the interest is over £300 per year. Now can we get this back on topic, thanks

bunny999

blue~skies wrote: »

Thank you! I hadn't thought of the sure start maternity grant. I didn't think we would qualify in a million years but having been on entitledto and HMRC we will be getting about £45 per wk which seems really high. Not that I will complain! So I guess it's worth looking in to - they can only say no eh?! xxxxx

blue~skies wrote: »

For the last time: I appreciate having to answer questions that relate to my origibal questions in order that people can help me *BUT* as I said - I take offence at people saying things like 'you negotiate and they pay' - why is this relevant?? It isn't!

Thank you but tax credits are not benefits - they may be beneficial but child benefit is a seperate thing. Perhaps I should have specified that I won't be applying for means-tested benefits - just the £20 every household with a child is entitled to.

Child tax credits are MEANS TESTED. If you aren't going to apply for means tested benefits then you don't have tell anyone about your income and outgoings.