Housing benefit

jlouise123_2

Hello,

I was overpaid tax credits last year by £600 because I overestimated my childcare costs, the thing is I received housing benefit last year aswell. Im paing back the overpayment from tax credits at a rate of £50 per month. Because I received to much tax credits, would that mean that i'd received to much housing benefit??

Let me just give you some more information;

Total weekly income before tax; £250
Weekly childcare costs: £150 but I told tax credits £170 (because of some confusion with childcare deposit)
Weekly Rent: £120

I paid full council tax

I then received £240 per week working and child tax credit and £50 per week housing benefit.

My question is, if inland revenue are recovering the debt from me, would housing benefit still look at it like they was overpaying me even though im paying the money back to tax credits???

Hope you understand, im not very good at explaining things ,

Thank you

paddedjohn

in an earlier post you put earnings at £5000/year and nursery costs at £120 per week, which figure is correct?

jlouise123_2

Well i started working in november last year so from december 2010 to april 2011 I earned £5000.62, so my yearly income is £12000.
My nursery fee's have gone up and down, due to the nursery charging more money during non term time (news to me) so I asked the nursery manager to give me an annual cost figure of sending my child to the nursery, so I could just pay her the same amount each week instead of it changing and confusing me all the time, I divided the annual figure by 52 weeks and I got £150.
Hope that makes sense, everything over the past few months has confused me, but im slowly getting there, thanks for your help