child tax credits

DX2

bert-09 wrote: »

If I am allowed to claim, I will. I would think I'm not the only one who didn't even know you could do this in the first place. thanks again

You can't that's the thing I can without a doubt say the information that you and the tax credit operator gave each other is incorrect.

Indie_Kid

DX2 wrote: »

IIRC the cut off point for CTC is £50,000.

It's nearer £60,000. And will be going down to around £40,000 in April.

DX2

sh1305 wrote: »

It's nearer £60,000. And will be going down to around £40,000 in April.

So eligible for about a tenner a week then for CTC

DX2

bert-09 wrote: »

Thanks for your replies.I eventualy got through to the tax credits helpline and explained my ex wife didn't claim any working or child tax credits but my partner and I did. I was informed that I COULD claim the tax credits for my children as they are NOT a benefit in the same way as esa or jsa or child benefit, they are, as they say, a tax CREDIT for the children and as I care and feed etc for them as well as their mother and I am already claiming tax credits, I am allowed to claim them.

That would be why you posted the same question on CAG @ 21:14pm
http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?287381-child-tax-credits

Kimitatsu

bert-09 you can put a claim in, that is not a problem.

However in the event that you are mistakenly given an award you will only generate an overpayment which will have to be paid back at some point. Currently your wife is the main carer of the children, they go to school from your wifes address and are registered at the doctors from your wifes address.

When your wife applies for tax credits next year, if you have claimed you will delay her claim, so depriving the children for which this money is for the finances that they will need at that time.

You have been told the same thing on two forums from people who work in the money sector every day, so please heed the advice.

bert-09

Thanks for all your replies. my ex wifes new husband earns too much on his own, never mind my ex wifes income. She knows that I am making the claim and has no problem with that at all as she knows the money will benefit the children.

I have rang this morning and added them to my claim, reiterating what I had told the person yesterday. Just have to supply birth certificates and nat ins numbs.

thanks again to all

DX2

:wall: You are very welcome, I personally can't wait for your overpayment thread. You are not the children's main carer that would be why you pay child support and as such you can't claim ctc and wtc.

bert-09 wrote: »

Thanks for all your replies. my ex wifes new husband earns too much on his own, never mind my ex wifes income. She knows that I am making the claim and has no problem with that at all as she knows the money will benefit the children.

I have rang this morning and added them to my claim, reiterating what I had told the person yesterday. Just have to supply birth certificates and nat ins numbs.

thanks again to all

Kimitatsu

If you have a change in your tax credits, then you should also inform the CSA of a change of circumstance as the increased tax credits will be taken into account for your maintenance assessment.

Regardless of how much your ex and her partner earn, you are still not entitled to claim for these children :cool: this from the HMRC website:

Child Tax Credit is for people who are responsible for at least one [URL="javascript:DoGlossary('child');"]child[/URL] or qualifying [URL="javascript:DoGlossary('Youngperson');"]young person[/URL]. Child Tax Credit is paid direct to the person who is mainly responsible for caring for the child or children

You are not that person therefore you are fraudulently claiming this benefit.

Indie_Kid

bert-09 wrote: »

Thanks for all your replies. my ex wifes new husband earns too much on his own, never mind my ex wifes income. She knows that I am making the claim and has no problem with that at all as she knows the money will benefit the children.

I have rang this morning and added them to my claim, reiterating what I had told the person yesterday. Just have to supply birth certificates and nat ins numbs.

thanks again to all

I didn't get my NI number until a few weeks before I was 16. So, if the children are under 16, how would you know what their NI number is?

Peanuckle

sh1305 wrote: »

I didn't get my NI number until a few weeks before I was 16. So, if the children are under 16, how would you know what their NI number is?

I do know that the nat ins number is set early on (from birth maybe) as any child on DLA has their own number on the claim