First Time post on here - felt sick and a loser

jenchin66

Fred, good news about your wife.

sophiesmum_2

:j :j Hi Fred
Glad to hear that your wife has had the all clear. Had cancer in my close family recently so know how hard it can be. At last some good news for you, and no doubt one big worry off your mind.
take care
sophiesmum

miggy

Just sticking my head round the door to ask if you're okay and wish you a happy Christmas...

vindalooloo

Forgive me folks, if I have missed something here, but aren't you supposed to be WORKING to get tax credits????


"WORK pension - 217-49 per month
Housing benefit - 206-54 per week
Income Support - 10-61 per week
child benefit - 116-60 every 4 weeks
tax credits - 228-00 per week
Carers allowance - 187-80 per month
council tax rebate - 119 per month"

We both work and are on low wages and we only get £29 a MONTH in tax credits. How can this family get £228 a WEEK when they are not even working??? You are supposed to work over 30 hours a week to get it - surely?

Please forgive me everyone but this sounds a bit dodgy ......

if it's not then please accept my apologies, original poster, but the figures don't add up. Surely no one gets this much in benefits?????

Especially, what's with the tax credits?

Graham_Devon

This is exactly what I was thinking. You can't claim tax credits when you don't pay any tax....just take it.

Seems far too suss to me. As for benefits, yes, unfortunately you can get this many.

smokybabe

:santa2: Happy Christmas Fred and family.

Smoky. xxxxx

krisskross

Graham_Devon wrote:

This is exactly what I was thinking. You can't claim tax credits when you don't pay any tax....just take it.

Seems far too suss to me. As for benefits, yes, unfortunately you can get this many.

I would assume this is child tax credits rather than working tax credits.

Graham_Devon

I ntoe my above reply came across as highly rude, didnt mean it to be, just had a few drinks!

As far as I'm aware. You can't claim child tax credits at the same time as the same children getting DLA. Thats 2 lots of tax for the same people. If they are actual kids, should nto being getting DLA in their own rights, if they are getting DLA, he should NOT be getting child tax credits.

Either way anyway he shouldn't be getting tax credits as he pay's no tax, so wheres the 'credit' bit coming from.

After having read all this, and the OP saying 'if you dont want to help leave the thread' and saying he can't give up sky at £55 a month, plus all the pocket money per week, I can't help but feel were being taken for a ride, either on here, or us workers are paying for this man to scam the system and take our money.

I genuinely do feel something suss is going on here. Either that or it's a troll.

Sory if my replies come across as harsh, but the OP won't post proper situations and is stating his get's tax credits, and jeez those are some large credits. You'd have to be paying a serious amount of tax to get that credited back to you.

krisskross

OP has 4 offspring. The 2 older daughters I believe claim DLA in their own right. It will be the younger 2 that child tax credits are paid for, it is why Income Support looks low. You do not have to pay income tax ever to get tax credits. Bit of a misnomer I believe.

Graham_Devon

Ahhh, then I will apologise now.

I'm missing various posts and it all looks confusing!!

Sorry OP.

I would have honestly thought that you can't get credited for something that hasn't been debited? Obviously not the op's fault, but seems a little strange!!