childcare advice

fannyannie_2

Hi,

Ive been offered a job doing as many hours as i want. The pay is £5.72 an hour so for it to be worth doing i wanted to do 28 hours a week.

we have 2 children aged 5 and 10 months. My partner is a self employed bricklayer and he earns between 16k and 17k a year.

I phoned tax credits and asked if we would be entitled to any childcare and they said no. Surely this cant be right!

I really wanted to go out to work!

xx

scatz

Put all your information into this form;

http://www.taxcredits.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/Qualify/DIQHousehold.aspx

You'll have to guesstimate the amount of childcare you would have to pay. My wife charges £3.50ph for her childminding services if this helps!!

kelloggs36

It seems like the highest amount you can earn is about 15k to qualify for childcare which excludes the vast majority of those who would really need it as it means that those of us who have to pay childcare are left worse off than somebody who earns less but gets all the extra help - no incentive to help yourself really. Mr Brown hasn't got a clue.

kurjam

our total income is £18000 a year and we get £65 a week towards childcare costs of £98.00 a week, can you not get childcare vouchers from your employer??

Spendless

kelloggs36 wrote:

It seems like the highest amount you can earn is about 15k to qualify for childcare which excludes the vast majority of those who would really need it as it means that those of us who have to pay childcare are left worse off than somebody who earns less but gets all the extra help - no incentive to help yourself really. Mr Brown hasn't got a clue.

You can earn a high amount and qualify for tax credit help towards childcare but it shows as an additional amount of child tax credit. If you put your income in with and without childcare fees into this site, if the amount you receive is higher when you put your childcare costs in, the difference is what you receive towards childcare IYSWIM.


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