Tax credits and disability

maidincornwall

Im trying to sort out our finances at the moment, I work 30 hrs plus per week as self employed mainly working from home, we have 2 children at school, both teenagers, (plus 2 others a university) my husband is disabled with combat related PTSD and has back and other problems caused by injuries during his military service, he gets a war disablement pension, at present they acknowledge he is 30% disabled, we are going to tribunal about this as actually he is unable to go out out the house alone due to huge anxiety etc caused by his PTSD so therefore we have been advised that he should get a higher % than this and hence a higher war pension, he also gets contribution based ESA and I have recently applied for DLA for him, (he did get DLA but 'forgot' to renew due to his illness) we own our own house mortgage free, my question is.......I have been looking at our tax credit award and am confused as to whether he counts as disabled for the purpose of tax credits, they ask if anyone is disabled, however when i looked at their criteria for it, it seems that in order to be classed as disabled he needs to be working at least 16 hrs per week as well as receive certain benefits, is this right or am I being particularly dense? (which wouldnt surprise me!)

Icequeen99

You are correct. For the disability element of WTC the disabled person needs to be the worker.

For the severe disability element (which is different), the person needs to be getting the higher rate CARE component of DLA (or higher attendance allowance) but there is no requirement that the disabled person is the worker for that element. As long as their partner is working and they get the relevant benefit the SDE is payable.

IQ

maidincornwall

Thanks, I thought that was the case, but sometimes its hard to see the wood for the trees so to speak!