Can I claim?

codwidow

Yes we get about £16 per week WTC and £90 child tax credit

SuperShopper

Re my original post; rough details are:

Partner earns Around £39,000, works 35+ hours per week
I am at home with 2 kids aged 7 and 3
Gave up work 3 years ago to raise children
Currently get just over £40 per month tax credits in total and the usual child benefit
Just wanted to know if I was entitled to any help with Council tax.
Want to retrain as a nursery worker but cannot afford the course, would I get any help with the cost

Thank you.

healy

SuperShopper wrote: »

Re my original post; rough details are:

Partner earns Around £39,000, works 35+ hours per week
I am at home with 2 kids aged 7 and 3
Gave up work 3 years ago to raise children
Currently get just over £40 per month tax credits in total and the usual child benefit
Just wanted to know if I was entitled to any help with Council tax.
Want to retrain as a nursery worker but cannot afford the course, would I get any help with the cost

Thank you.

I do not think you would get any CTB with an income that high but you could check on entitledto.com if you want

Indie_Kid

SuperShopper wrote: »

Want to retrain as a nursery worker but cannot afford the course, would I get any help with the cost

Thank you.

Someone may take you on as an apprentice. They'll train you, you'll go to college 1 day a week and spend the other 4 days at a nursery. You'll get around £100 (I think) per week for it.

smegs1978

SuperShopper wrote: »

Re my original post; rough details are:

Partner earns Around £39,000, works 35+ hours per week
I am at home with 2 kids aged 7 and 3
Gave up work 3 years ago to raise children
Currently get just over £40 per month tax credits in total and the usual child benefit
Just wanted to know if I was entitled to any help with Council tax.
Want to retrain as a nursery worker but cannot afford the course, would I get any help with the cost

Thank you.

I have a full time and a part time job and i come out with just under £17k a year, my husband is a sahd to my 3 children, and we get a small amount of hb but have no entitlement to council tax benefit, so i would assume the answer is no to you.

karenx

So you have an income of 40k with adding in the tax credits and child benefit ( £878) and you want help to pay your council tax????

SuperShopper

That income is before tax and other deductions. I have always worked and just wanted to know if I was entitled to claim anything while I am not working as we have quite a high mortgage. When we got the mortgage I was obviously working and now our income has gone down significantly.

I am not being greedy just wanted to know if I was entitled to get anything to help whilst I am not working.

Thanks for the other responses. Thread closed.

healy

SuperShopper wrote: »

That income is before tax and other deductions. I have always worked and just wanted to know if I was entitled to claim anything while I am not working as we have quite a high mortgage. When we got the mortgage I was obviously working and now our income has gone down significantly.

I am not being greedy just wanted to know if I was entitled to get anything to help whilst I am not working.

Thanks for the other responses. Thread closed.

It is only board guides etc who can close threads.

The point is means tested benefits are for those on a low income which you are clearly not.

krisskross

Can't blame the OP for asking. I wouldn't have been a bit surprised if she had been entitled to something in this crazy everyone is entitled country.

I still can't get over the fact that someone can declare themselves self employed and pay no National Insurance contributions. Then a few years down the line decide they are too ill to work and want to claim sickness benefit. So can pay a couple of hundred quid in backdated NICs and then get an income of £65 a week for the foreseeable future. Absolute madness.

Oldernotwiser

SuperShopper wrote: »

Want to retrain as a nursery worker but cannot afford the course, would I get any help with the cost

If you don'talready have a level 2 qualification then you would be able to do a level 2 in Childcare for free. This would apply for any kind of qualification at this level.