Tax credit renewal - general questions (merged)

no-oneknowsme

nilla wrote: »

Our difference was 5k and we got £440 lum sum

There must have been other changes though. Did you get childcare before that you are not getting now etc ? Have you went from being entitled to WTC AND CTC to only now being entitled to ctc?

nilla

No childcare or anything else and no WTC as we were over the limit for that, hubby lost his job in January so now all we have is Carers allowance and hubby is on pension credit but thats not classed as income

no-oneknowsme

nilla wrote: »

No childcare or anything else and no WTC as we were over the limit for that, hubby lost his job in January so now all we have is Carers allowance and hubby is on pension credit but thats not classed as income

Have you given tco an estimate of what you expect your household income to be for the year AHEAD?

Maybe they are using the normal method of calculating your entitlement to tc's using the earnings from the year just passed. Have you told them that you have suffered a massive drop in income so that they can recalculate your entitlement using more accurate figures?

nilla

i gave them this years income and told them our earnings for April 2010- April 2011, not got that paperwork through yet but got the extra £440 in the bank on Thursday and its said WTC which is puzzling, no CTC lump sum which thought I would get

no-oneknowsme

nilla wrote: »

i gave them this years income and told them our earnings for April 2010- April 2011, not got that paperwork through yet but got the extra £440 in the bank on Thursday and its said WTC which is puzzling, no CTC lump sum which thought I would get

You wont get a ctc lumpsum. You will find that all lumpsums are owed for WTC as it is your working situation which will most often change during the year.

nilla

Ah right thanks so that lump sum will be the only one owed

no-oneknowsme

nilla wrote: »

Ah right thanks so that lump sum will be the only one owed

Yes , you should find that it is...however , if you have not received your paperwork as yet you may well be pleasently surprised when you do as I think you may well notice an increase in your new weekly payments.

Have you tried inputting your details into entitled to website to see what they say you should be receiving?

nilla

Yes it looks like they CTC has gone up by £2 a week

no-oneknowsme

nilla wrote: »

Yes it looks like they CTC has gone up by £2 a week

:eek: Wow! i remember reading an earlier post of yours in which you mentioned the drastic drop in your household income......I would have thought your tc's would have gone up by more than £2!

nilla

So did I lol and I was hoping for a bigger lump sum buy hey ho every little helps