Tax credits have left us with nothing

AnxiousMum

One of you obviously need to get into work full time. If your husband has returned to the home to be carer to the younger child full time, well,you only work 20 hours per week, so full time care for the child is not really necessary is it? Choosing to claim maximum child credits instead of choosing to get proper jobs to support the children you chose to have - and then complaining about them actually taking time to process the claim rather than just hand the money over.....think you need to look at other alternatives to provide for yourself as much as you can.

OrkneyStar

Hi there,
While I sympathise with the pain in waiting for the claim to be sorted there is no way that you should expect tax-credits to subsidise a family of your size with only one adult working 20 hours a week (at first I thought you worked p/t and hubby f/t but I now see he does not work!).
Solution- you work more hours and/or husband get a job!
As well as your £60 week Child Benefit you will also have your wages, so it is not a family surviving on £60 per week!
I do think you need a big dose of reality.

Indie_Kid

You're not the only person waiting on TC decisions either. They can only go as fast as they can.

AsknAnswer2

Lone parent here, working 40 hours a week to support my two children, one of whom is disabled.

Can't quite work out two adults with four children and only 20 hours worked, relying on the state to pick up the tab. There's two of you. There's one of me. You have two more kids than I have. Your family is double the size of my family yet I work double the amount of hours that your family does.

I'm sorry but it's posts like this that really wind me up.

citymum wrote: »

I can see what your saying but i have school dinners to pay then school fund, gas, electric
Citymum x

Yes, so do I my dear, so do I. In fact so does everyone.

citymum wrote: »

i just feel like my heads spinning trying to juggle everything, ive even asked for overtime at work

Juggle?! Working 20 measley hours a week, with a husband at home to assist I fail to see what it is you need to juggle.

Yes, you should claim what you are entitled to. But do you not think that given your situation in comparison to mine, you are depending far too much on the funding of the state? My advice is to take on a little more responsibility by taking on more hours between you. Then you won't have to rely so heavily on waiting for a claim to be processed every time you have a change of circumstances.

nannytone_2

im 46, do you think i have time to bang out another couple of kids? could do with some tax credits lol

nextyeartina

the op has come on here for some advice & nearly everyone of u has jumped down her throat!! well i say, at least one of them is working & they aren't completely relying on benefits!! u tell her 2 get her hubby into full time employment. wake up people!! there's no jobs out there rite now!! i'm in a similiar boat so can sympathise wiv her. me & hubby have just got bk 2gether. i work 16 hours which fitted in around my kids whilst on my own. there's no spare hours going @ work, i've already been down that road. hubby was made redundant & has had no success finding new employment, & it aint for lack of trying either. wivout the help of tax creds, more people would be unemployed. don't judge people, either advise or leave alone

kelloggs36

whilst there may not be many high paying full time jobs, there are certainly low paid part time ones.

Hammyman

citymum wrote: »

So the short of it is i have a family of 6 TRYING to live off £60 a wk.

* Before anyone asks the simple question of my wages i will answer it now. Because i work 20 hours a wk we have to pay some rent and council tax and my wages go on them and the family car ie insurance. So we really do live off the tax credits not good i know but thats just the way it is LOL*

Is the £60 a week you've got to live on the Child Benefit?

What about the husbands income?

BTW, you need to inform the Council of the change in circumstances as well.

Hammyman

nextyeartina wrote: »

wake up people!! there's no jobs out there rite now!!

Rubbish. My FIFTEEN YEAR OLD son decided he wanted a summer job. An hour of ringing around places and he has a job as a waiter/kitchen assistant in a country pub. This weekend they didn't need him so he rang round relatives and did a bit of grass cutting to earn a few bob.

THERE ARE PLENTY OF JOBS. Her husband probably has the Channel 4 "Blame the Immigrants" syndrome where they offered doleys in Peterborough a job for £7.50/hr. When the doleys asked what it was and they said it was harvesting butternut squash, the doleys said they'd rather sign on.

BERFFRO

Hammyman wrote: »

Rubbish. My FIFTEEN YEAR OLD son decided he wanted a summer job. An hour of ringing around places and he has a job as a waiter/kitchen assistant in a country pub. This weekend they didn't need him so he rang round relatives and did a bit of grass cutting to earn a few bob.

THERE ARE PLENTY OF JOBS. Her husband probably has the Channel 4 "Blame the Immigrants" syndrome where they offered doleys in Peterborough a job for £7.50/hr. When the doleys asked what it was and they said it was harvesting butternut squash, the doleys said they'd rather sign on.

You've got to realise that it's not that easy around the country! But i do agree with you that jobs do exist maybe not without the pay and hours you want but they're out there. It took me 3 months to find my current job which i only P/T at the moment with a hour travel to and from but it's work at the end of the day.