Working/child tax credits- newbie

lil_girl

Hi guys, I'm new here, never claimed anything before. Just been on DWP website on the benefits advisor and based on my partner working full time and earning roughly £520 before tax and me working 12 hours a week earning roughly £90 a week before tax and with one baby we are entitled to £65 a week child tax credit and £88 a week working tax credit! Is this right?? Has anyone any experience on this or has the similar earnings and claims both that could advise me before I actually put in my claim form please?

Thanks for Reading x

dmg24

£520 per week? If so, you definitely will not get that amount of WTC! Are you sure that you have not entered that as the monthly figure?

lil_girl

Yes definately put in as weekly amount, that wage is before tax so his take home is about £350 and mine £70 but the question they ask is before tax and at the end when you get the results they work out what tax and NI you pay as the combined weekly income is about £420 per week. I'm so confused as the tax credits does seem alot but why would it come up with those amounts if it wasn't accurate? Surely that's misleading. Has anyone else used it??

shellsuit

That's not right, I don't know how it's calculated that figure but it is definitely wrong.

dmg24

Did he earn that amount last year, or less? You would be best to call HMRC for a more accurate calculation.

AnxiousMum

You might want to look at the calculations again - as that gives your husbands income alone at over £24K per year, way over the WTC threshhold.

bestpud

lil_girl wrote: »

Yes definately put in as weekly amount, that wage is before tax so his take home is about £350 and mine £70 but the question they ask is before tax and at the end when you get the results they work out what tax and NI you pay as the combined weekly income is about £420 per week. I'm so confused as the tax credits does seem alot but why would it come up with those amounts if it wasn't accurate? Surely that's misleading. Has anyone else used it??

When you put it in the weekly box, did you check that it had the same amount in the box next to income.

I ask because it lets you input it in the most useful way for you and it then translates it into the figure it wants.

I put what I thought was a weekly figure in and it changed the amount to £1 something a week as it had clearly thought I was putting in an annual figure even though I ticked the weekly box. It's all to do with what you press first, I believe.

Try it again and check it doesn't change the figure to something ridiculous!

This is a bit jumbled as I can't remember how it happened but I know it did.

dmg24

bestpud wrote: »

This is a bit jumbled as I can't remember how it happened but I know it did.

Can I have that written on my gravestone please?

Caz3121

try entitledto, I would expect your CTC to be £21 per week whilst child under 1 year and £10.50 per week after.
Did you enter childcare costs maybe (as you have to both be working over 16 hours for those)
here are the tables for working with no childcare
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/people-advise-others/entitlement-tables/work-and-child/work-no-childcosts.htm

KeaneFan10

lil_girl wrote: »

Yes definately put in as weekly amount, that wage is before tax so his take home is about £350 and mine £70 but the question they ask is before tax and at the end when you get the results they work out what tax and NI you pay as the combined weekly income is about £420 per week. I'm so confused as the tax credits does seem alot but why would it come up with those amounts if it wasn't accurate? Surely that's misleading. Has anyone else used it??

Hi ..we earn just over £18500 a year combined and we do not get working tax credits

Wee_Willy_Harris

I've just used the info given by the OP and the DWP calculator....
http://www.workingfamilies.org.uk/asp/calculator/Default.aspx

And it shows the same figures as the OP has been given. I'd still have a chat with an adviser.