working tax credits

caroleak123

i have been told that the goverment are putting down the hours you have to work to cliam working tax credits so you may by able to get it if you work below 16 hours is this right and when are they doing it



thanks

Cornish_piskie

It looks like they are planning to extend the help towards childcare costs to those who work less than 16 hours per week according to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15197314

Icequeen99

caroleak123 wrote: »

i have been told that the goverment are putting down the hours you have to work to cliam working tax credits so you may by able to get it if you work below 16 hours is this right and when are they doing it



thanks

When Universal Credit eventually replaces tax credits it will not have an hours requirement. I suspect that is what you are referring to.

No changes to tax credits have been announced, in fact they are going the opposite way and increasing hours needed to get WTC for some people.

IQ