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do you think this is correct?
caris
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Last year when I did our tax credit renewal I declared our income for the coming year as £21000, I knew that this was alittle over what we should earn, I'd rather over estimate than get an overpayment.
Around June my husband lost his job and had to sign on and received contribution based JSA, we informed the tax credits of the change.
He then found another job around 3 months later and we again informed the tax credits and gave them his new hourly rate etc.
I did our renewal just over 3weeks ago, and our income was just over £18300 for 09/10. Thursday we received our provisional tax credit letter and tax credits were not much different to last year. I phoned tax credits as they had my hsbands hours incorrect and they said it didnt matter as he was still over 30 hours, I asked if we would be entitled to a lump sum payment as or last income was quite abit lower as estimated and the lady replied "no".
I was abit surprised at this as our income wasmuch less than the £21000 estimated, do you think this is correct or should we get an underpayment?
Thanks
caris
Around June my husband lost his job and had to sign on and received contribution based JSA, we informed the tax credits of the change.
He then found another job around 3 months later and we again informed the tax credits and gave them his new hourly rate etc.
I did our renewal just over 3weeks ago, and our income was just over £18300 for 09/10. Thursday we received our provisional tax credit letter and tax credits were not much different to last year. I phoned tax credits as they had my hsbands hours incorrect and they said it didnt matter as he was still over 30 hours, I asked if we would be entitled to a lump sum payment as or last income was quite abit lower as estimated and the lady replied "no".
I was abit surprised at this as our income wasmuch less than the £21000 estimated, do you think this is correct or should we get an underpayment?
Thanks
caris
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IME that is wrong, you should get a lump sump for an underpayment. I would phone again. You know what it's like same question, several different answers with ''them lot''!0
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Did they not make an adjustment in June though when he went onto JSA, and then again when he started working? I would think that if they did, then those new income amounts took over from the £21,000 that you 'overestimated' at the beginning of the year?0
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AnxiousMum wrote: »Did they not make an adjustment in June though when he went onto JSA, and then again when he started working? I would think that if they did, then those new income amounts took over from the £21,000 that you 'overestimated' at the beginning of the year?
No, when we phoned and said he wasn't working, we just dropped down to £53ish for the child tax credit (I child), then when he retrned to work we received the same amount child tax credit and £46 working tax credit, which is what we were getting pre job loss.
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