Tax Credits change of circumstance means lose everything for 6 weeks ?????

nosierosie

icklejulez wrote: »

Well I rang up this morning and my payment has gone through however can anyone explain how you work out childcare as I think they have got it completely wront. I was initially told my payments should be approx £185pw which sounded high but couldnt complain.

My kids are at nursery in a school so £116.75 over 40 weeks a year so in my opinion £89.80pw when divided over 52 weeks.

However when I rang Im now only getting £65pw (which i cant live off) and they say childcare is divided over 30 weeks as its over less time. Surely this cant be the correct way of working this out???

Brill news to hear youve finall got payment.
but sorry to hear tohear its not correct. Im not sure how child care works.Hopefully some 1 on ere might goodluck xx

nosierosie

Thanks all for your kind words. Good luckto you all who are who are waitingnow. Hope payments get sorted soon x

icklejulez

They had last years details so I informed them of my new income for this year this morning. Its the childcare element I dont understand. I thought £185 was a bit hopefull but on every website I calculated ot said to work out the average childcare costs per week over a 52 week period so why are they saying they've only based it over a 30 week period. It doesnt make sense at all...

esmerellda

Child care is paid to 80% of the cost (so cost £116 would be £92.80 - split that over 52 weeks is 71.38 based on attendance 40 weeks or 53.53 based on 30 weeks attendance - have a look http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/leaflets/wtc5.pdf - if they attend 40 weeks then I would have thought it should be calculated on the 40 weeks averaged over 52 at 80%.



Don't think that makes much sense does it ?

esmerellda

'' why are they saying they've only based it over a 30 week period.''

Maybe theres only 30 weeks left in the year till APril 11 from when you changed circs ? OTherwise no idea xx

icklejulez

None of it makes any sense to me lol, they've got perfect attendance so Im not sure. I can understand if they say 30 weeks this remaining tax year but surely it shouldnt then be divided by 52 weeks?

They make it so complicated no one knows how to work it out. It just seems extraordinarily low...

Telfordstar

I phoned again and after 30mins fianlly got through, it was refered to other office to be finalized or something on the 8th july and for it all to be sorted yet again we hear it will take uo to 3 weeks and thats unless the require any other info!

RitaRicks

My partner left me on 9th of June, we were due over £400 on 23rd June, but like yourself thought that i would be honest and let them know. I have been told it can take 3 weeks, 5 weeks and another person from Tax Credits said that there is not a limit to the time it takes. I have not been able to pay my rent and have had the local authorities on my back. I've had to borrow money from everywhere as didn't even have bus fare to work.
It's painfully enough when your relationship breaks down, but it's unbelievable that it takes so long to sort out.
Good luck with your claim and I hope they sort it soon for you.
X

Telfordstar

RitaRicks wrote: »

My partner left me on 9th of June, we were due over £400 on 23rd June, but like yourself thought that i would be honest and let them know. I have been told it can take 3 weeks, 5 weeks and another person from Tax Credits said that there is not a limit to the time it takes. I have not been able to pay my rent and have had the local authorities on my back. I've had to borrow money from everywhere as didn't even have bus fare to work.
It's painfully enough when your relationship breaks down, but it's unbelievable that it takes so long to sort out.
Good luck with your claim and I hope they sort it soon for you.
X

Poor you, you must be mega peeved off . I thought if you went from a joint to a single your payments dont stop?

toonbaz

icklejulez wrote: »

They had last years details so I informed them of my new income for this year this morning. Its the childcare element I dont understand. I thought £185 was a bit hopefull but on every website I calculated ot said to work out the average childcare costs per week over a 52 week period so why are they saying they've only based it over a 30 week period. It doesnt make sense at all...

what was the start date of the childcare? if it was only recently then your childcare entitlement wont cover 52 weeks because it has started 3 months in to the tax year.