tax credits are very different to entitledto.co.uk HELP PLEASE!

keith_lard

Hi all,
I have recently updated my tax credits claim, was receving £81.00 a week for 2 children, have been on 3 websites including entitledto.co.uk all gave an increase this year saying £118, another £123 and a goverment one came in at £151.00!!!

just phoned tax credits up and they say new payments are £52 a week?

Is something wrong here?

infomation I gave to all is the same,

Just wondering if anyone else has had this too?


k.:(

alwaysonthego_2

Tax credits are worked out on your 09-10 income so unless you are recieving a lower income this year then they should be correct. The benefit calculators are estimate figures and can be way out.

SuziQ

I am confused about the way they divide your payments up. According to my paperwork today, I am to recieve slightly more than last year. However they have chosen to give me an extra lump sum payment last month (not left over from last year-money owed from last year was 0 as I am on IS and nothing has changed.) Because of the lump sum, my monthly payment is now £24 less. My money is worked out to the penny so it's a nuisance! I know that I can (and will ) leave the lump sum intact to supplement my payment each month, and maybe for some people that lump sum would have been very useful, but when I used to work with struggling families, lots of them would have gone out and blown that lump sum and then struggled the rest of the year. It just doesn't make sense to me!

keith_lard

Thank you for the replies,
Just cant see how they work this out???

Every website was wayout (why bother using them???)

Household income has dropped every year in the past 3 years, so why the drop?

Will contest it, and will see what becomes of that.

Cant seem to get real answers to what I should receive.


k.

TaxCreditHelp

Have you tried the Tax Credit entitlement calculator on the HMRC website? That should be spot on.

BLT_2

keith_lard wrote: »

Hi all,
I have recently updated my tax credits claim, was receving £81.00 a week for 2 children, have been on 3 websites including entitledto.co.uk all gave an increase this year saying £118, another £123 and a goverment one came in at £151.00!!!

just phoned tax credits up and they say new payments are £52 a week?

Is something wrong here?

infomation I gave to all is the same,

Just wondering if anyone else has had this too?


k.:(

There certainly is something wrong here, the fact that people are being funded to have children to the tune of 4k per year in a world that is groaning from over population.

I am at a loss to understand why single people are taxed to support other peoples children.

keith_lard

TaxCreditHelp wrote: »

Have you tried the Tax Credit entitlement calculator on the HMRC website? That should be spot on.

Thanks for the link, just been on it,
it says £105 per week!

getting more confused now:eek:


k.

keith_lard

BLT wrote: »

There certainly is something wrong here, the fact that people are being funded to have children to the tune of 4k per year in a world that is groaning from over population.

I am at a loss to understand why single people are taxed to support other peoples children.

Me me me eh!:think::think::think::think::think:

BLT_2

keith_lard wrote: »

Me me me eh!:think::think::think::think::think:

Nope, but there has to be something wrong with a society whereby a 19 year old girl could get more from the government for the onerous task of spreading her legs after a night out on alcopops than a 70 year old pensioner would receive after 50 years of toil and paying taxes.

dktreesea

BLT wrote: »

There certainly is something wrong here, the fact that people are being funded to have children to the tune of 4k per year in a world that is groaning from over population.

I am at a loss to understand why single people are taxed to support other peoples children.

I asked this very question of someone who came around campaigning during the election, and their take on it was that the single person was far more likely to need support from the state when they got older, and that the future taxes to fund that care would come from the earnings of the, by then, grown up children.