argh tax credits

dazzadub

right i was told today my tax credits are now.

£141 a week,

working tax
child tax

we have baby of 5 months.

told that first 100 of smp isnt not considered. so told them this after 5months of it, they recaculated it.

£4100 a year earnings, and they said we only get 141 a week, i was told it would be more

dazzadub

how do people on hear calculate the figures they give and how do tax credits calculate it to there amount

Kimitatsu

have you checked the figures on www.entitledto.co.uk? Or there is a tax credits calculator on the HMRC site - personally I would start there and see what the figures come back with.

DanE2010

do you work? if so how many hours? if you do work what is your income? if you dont work are you recieving any benefits? how many hours did your partner work before she went on maternity leave? what date did she go on mat leave? has she gone past the 39 weeks of mat leave? Have you had an overpayment? has your award been backdated to the day your baby was born? These are all things id need to know in order to give you a better answer cause they all effect what your payments are

dazzadub

DanE2010 wrote: »

do you work? if so how many hours? if you do work what is your income? if you dont work are you recieving any benefits? how many hours did your partner work before she went on maternity leave? what date did she go on mat leave? has she gone past the 39 weeks of mat leave? Have you had an overpayment? has your award been backdated to the day your baby was born? These are all things id need to know in order to give you a better answer cause they all effect what your payments are

i do work but due to my incapacity im unable, and also my work wont pay sick as im only relief worker,so no income from job

i have applied for esa income based due to paterners work.( no money from esa due to family income)
tax credit also said this isnt a taxable income and it would award my highest rate.

partner did 24 hours a week

she went on maternity leave on 17th april 2010 and hasnt gone over 39 weeks and plans to return beginning of feb and has also used some holiday entitlement at the end of her mat leave aswell.

no over payment

they have calculated the award back from 15 may 2010 which is babys birth date.


esa wont give any money to me as we have a family income. the forms were put in about 3 weeks ago with all evidence, reason behind esa was more for for housing and council tax benefit as i was informed that this will give us a slighly higher rate of both. informed this by housing benefit office and also dwp.

DanE2010

so are you employed and off sick? what did you earn before you went off sick?

DanE2010

based on your circumstances it sounds like your payments are correct, put it in the tax credits calculator http://taxcredits.hmrc.gov.uk/Qualify/DIQHousehold.aspx

dazzadub

i did calculator and it said it was about right, but people in same situation as me get more

i earned around £18k a year

but the tax credits are based on this years earnings only.

arh well if its right its right if it wrong they owe me.

cheers for help

Caz3121

It does look like the maximum based on 1 child under one and no childcare costs
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/people-advise-others/entitlement-tables/work-and-child/work-no-childcosts.htm#2

dazzadub

yh i have made many calcs and it seems to be about right