MSE Parents Club Part 15

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

susan, (and/or anyone else who understands the child tax credits system) Hi, I downloaded the HMRC pdf file with the worked examples, but am still scratching my head.

In january we lose 20% of DHs income plus all my SMP. I was hoping this might make a difference to our tax credits, but I am struggling to understand the thresholds at which point income has already reduced any gain, at the 39p in the pound rate.

I'd be grateful if anyone knows the amount of earnings above which the first and second child element would no longer be payable? :)We deffo will get the new baby element up til March, but above/beyond that I am not sure....

If you give me a link - I'll have a look. (I only keep a record of the first threshold as that's the only one that applies to us.)

cazscoob

tax credits are a mystery to me, i think they randomly make up the figures each person will get!!

Im sooo fed up after trying not to spend etc etc i still seem to be just as skint??? i think i may hibernate and wake up when the sun is back

3onitsway

aless02 wrote: »

3 - we have used both SelectSpecs and GlassesDirect just fine here. Tend to just buy from whoever has the cheaper frames that DH likes. Both ship from China, though, so they do tend to take 2-3 weeks to arrive.

Thank you.
I've just ordered two pair from SelectSpecs for £42.00. :money:
GlassesDirect had a bogoff and free delivery, but the two pair from SelectSpecs worked out cheaper. I just hope they don't take too long. I only really use them for driving and I look a bit of an idiot driving round in winter/rain wearing sunglasses. :rotfl:

Wilma123 wrote: »

Have you seen all the drama going on with the Next baby comp? lol... Apparently people have been messaging each other hate mail saying their kids are ugly, some people have been canvassing the streets asking for votes. Pathetic!!!

It's dreadful isn't it! I entered V, but haven't bothered to ask friends to vote because it's just got silly! The top 12 are just going to be the ones with the most pushy parents not the cutest (which I know my V is! ).
It should have been done with a judging panel really.
I did wonder if it was pushy parents starting the P**do rumour so that other parents would pull out of the comp, giving those left a better chance! :eek:

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

If you give me a link - I'll have a look. (I only keep a record of the first threshold as that's the only one that applies to us.)

thank you it is here :A

aless02

SusanC wrote: »

If you give me a link - I'll have a look. (I only keep a record of the first threshold as that's the only one that applies to us.)

It's MEGA confusing. Weezl and I were trying to work it out the other day and the problem is that the leaflet doesn't adequately explain how the deductions are made. If I try and work out our entitlement based on the examples and figures given, I get £25, which is obviously not correct.

Sami_Bee

DueMarch11 wrote: »

Hi All

Looking for some ideas on how to get my 2 year old DD to eat some vegetables. She suffers a lot from constipation which Im trying to control by diet rather than keep giving her Lactolose, trouble is even though she is offered vegetables nearly every dinner time, she wont eat them! She will eat fruit but that doesnt seem to be doing much, its the green veg that she needs I think. Any ideas on how to get her to eat it? Or if I could try anything else that she might eat?

At the moment she will eat beans on toast, scrambled egg, omelette (could try putting veg into one of these I guess) and pasta. I do try and get her to eat a varied diet but on the nights that she refuses to eat her dinner I would rather she ate something than nothing because otherwise she wakes up hungry.

She has a bottle of milk before bed, cereals for breakfast (wont eat wheatabix) and a sandwich or something similar at the childminders for lunch, her snacks at the childminders are mainly fruit aswell.

Think Ive covered everything there!

TIA

DM11 x

To be honest beans and egg are probably not a good idea, I have to limit pulses in my 17mth old as they bung him up too much. Like weezl's LO diet alone cannot help my son's constipation, at his worst i gave him prune purree for dessert at every meal, all it did was give him nappy rash
We're using lactulose at the moment but have just had to increase the dose as it wasn't effective (I think maybe because he's eating a lot more these days)

With Veg for my 3yo I just go with the flow and make sure roughly half the meals I serve are with hidden veg/veg he likes. peppers go down very well, he'll happily much a whole red/orange/yellow one, i just remove the core and he eats it like an apple. I grate carrot in any thing with a redish sauce.

Sami_Bee

oh and tax credits i didn't use the leaflet I found the calculation info in amoungst a load of waffle on the site and made a spreadsheet (which i deleted :doh: ) i'll see if i can find it again

The info I used was this to work out the maximum http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/payments-entitlement/entitlement/how-worked-out.htm
and this to work out how much to reduce it by http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/payments-entitlement/entitlement/income-examples.htm

and there is the calculator too http://taxcredits.hmrc.gov.uk/Qualify/DIQHousehold.aspx

sorry if that just says what your leaflet does

delain

Hello everyone :hello: been offline due to stupid broken netbook and the thought of reading the million odd pages made me :eek:

So I hope everyone is well, the menfolk have stopped their varying degrees of idiocy and that your LO's are doing lots of lovely new things and all is peaceful (if I'm wrong I did say I hadn't read back! :rotfl:)

kkayleigh

my little boy screams if i give him any veg and i get stressed out with it all and i give in. think thats why i put on so much weight as i was just eating theyre food and giving him what he wanted. ive been too tired out to cook something healthy for me after. its gone too far though and i want us all to be healthy. Keep watching Jamie oliver and feeling bad about what food i give my kids.

SugarSpun

kkayleigh ignore Jamie. Can you hide veg in whatever they will eat?