Can you get help with rent payments when claiming Tax Credits?

skintandscared_2

Hammyman wrote: »

When SMP stops, if they notify tax credits of the change as they are legally required to, the tax credit payments will go up and virtually replace the SMP.

ahhh, there we go then. That's your answer ironman (got there in the end!)

Sixer

Hammyman wrote: »

When SMP stops, if they notify tax credits of the change as they are legally required to, the tax credit payments will go up and virtually replace the SMP.

I thought most of the SMP was discounted for tax credits? Isn't it £100 a week? So surely you're wrong, Hammyman, and tax credits won't go up by much at all. So you're also wrong when you keep repeating £2,000 a month, despite the OP explaining all this in the very first post on the thread.

I wouldn't call you drunk or stupid, because that would be against the rules around here, right?!

ironman1

I have read that tax credits don't go up if the Mum doesn't go back to work after Maternity pay runs out, what is the deal here then?

Our family either live too far to look after our son or they work, otherwise it would be great for him to stay at his nan's for example.

Thanks for the decent replies

skintandscared_2

ironman1 wrote: »

I have read that tax credits don't go up if the Mum doesn't go back to work after Maternity pay runs out, what is the deal here then?

Our family either live too far to look after our son or they work, otherwise it would be great for him to stay at his nan's for example.

Thanks for the decent replies

The only tax credit I know anything about is working tax credit, which I know you only get if both parents are working a minimum of 16 hours per week. Aside from that, hopefully someone else will know more.

Sorry, I presumed from your posting "I don't want to move out of London as it's our home, where I Work and where our families are" that your family lived closer. I appreciate London is a big city