Can an NRP receive tax credits?

kelloggs36

The PWC can claim tax credits for the children whilst on benefits - what used to be the child element of income support was replaced by the tax credits. Therefore, you cannot claim any tax credits for them at all.

kelloggs36

Child support is not counted as PWC income at all under any circumstances now. So, even if she was working and getting working tax credits, she would get her wages, tax credits and child support payments. If she claims benefits, then she gets all of them, plus your maintenance now - there is no means testing for child support any more. How much are your arrears?

LovesDennys

Loopy_Girl wrote: »

No I bet you don't!!! Child support is your responsibility - no one elses!! Jeezo......:eek:

Working parents get help from the taxpayer in the form of tax credits. I dont get a single penny.

LovesDennys

kelloggs36 wrote: »

. How much are your arrears?

To be honest I dont really know. I would hazzard a guess at about £7,000 or £8 ,000.

How does arrears impact whether I can receive tax credits?

LovesDennys

shell_542 wrote: »

I really don't think there's anyway of looking at getting any help from the government towards the children as they don't live with you. Sorry.

Never mind, I thought I would explore the possibility. Its just that I am being taxed to the max and paying a further 40% charge is really crippling me. It leaves me an income of 27 pence for every Pound earned. I need to look at the alternatives.

ilovemykids1979

danny has you will see because your NRP and a father people may be reluctant to help, many go on about how its the fathers responsibility to provide for thier child but im sure it is just important the father is alive for the sake of the child.

i mean how can any one survive on 27p in everypound???

loopy girl shows what many bitter RP are like in my opinion.

do you feel you provide too much for your children? do you find the maintence is not equla and left to you? then maybe you need to consider ways of reducing your maintence...........watch the bad dad brigade go now!!

kelloggs36

No, the arrears would determine how much they take to pay it off. How much are they taking every month to pay off the arrears? Is it over 2 years or less? You could try and get it spread over a longer period (and I would try) but they are being particularly hard at the moment, so you can't expect success, but you have nothing to lose by fighting for it. Do it via your MP who generally have better success than the general public. Good luck.

LovesDennys

kelloggs36 wrote: »

No, the arrears would determine how much they take to pay it off. How much are they taking every month to pay off the arrears? Is it over 2 years or less? You could try and get it spread over a longer period (and I would try) but they are being particularly hard at the moment, so you can't expect success, but you have nothing to lose by fighting for it.

The arrears are 10% on top of the 30% maintenance so its much more than two years.

In 2007 we applied to emigrate to Australia and were accepted in January this year. Unfortunately the Australian authorities contacted UK government departments for employment and tax references and the CSA got wind of our intentions to emigrate and so, will not negotiate a shorter period.

karenx

LovesDennys wrote: »

To be honest I dont really know. I would hazzard a guess at about £7,000 or £8 ,000.

How does arrears impact whether I can receive tax credits?

Debts are not taken into account for any benefits. Unless you are the primary carer of at least 1 child and recieve the child benefit for them then you are not entitled to any tax credits at all

LovesDennys

kelloggs36 wrote: »

Do it via your MP who generally have better success than the general public. Good luck.

We went to our MP in '05. I argued that the CSA did not allow me to pay my own housing costs while it allowed my ex to occupy my own house, and a free house and mortgage payments for it did not qualify as child support and the PWC refuses to sign a tenancy agreement. While the rules do allow me to pay my own housing costs, the CSA said I was out of time because the time limit to appeal was 30 days.

A Data access request in '07 revealed the CSA had actually sent appeal documents to the wrong house number and I could have appealed to a tribunal, but as this document did not reach me until some two years after my MP discontinued his enqiries, I was still out of time, this time, the time limit was just over a year.

Our MP came down on the side of the CSA. The CSA continues to charge maintenance even though it acknowledged they did not comply with their own rules on my housing costs. We decided to apply to Austraila as a last resort but now I simply dont have the money. I am now forced to sell up to release the capital to buy a house in Perth Western Australia.