Tax Credits/HB/CT and Pregnant daughter

midnight_express

If she is able to work and actively seeking work she can claim JSA.

looby75

the reason they say that you may not be able to claim JSA if you are pregnant is because after 29 weeks you have to claim IS, as you are no longer deemed elligable for work, sort of like you had gone one maternity leave. Obviously they don't know how far on your daughter was when she filled in the form and that would have been covered in the follow up phonecall she would have got if she had submitted a claim.

My sister was made redundant when she was pregnant with her youngest child, she had a visible bump but was still able to claim JSA, she was lucky enough to be offered a job before she had to go onto IS.

Killmark

Kimberley wrote: »

When she applied online for jsa and put down she were pregnant the result said she may not be entitled to jsa and she never got a follow up call like some of her mates did when they applied for jsa.

They should have contacted her regardless, even if they failed to she could have called the claim line herself if she had any doubts.

She could claim IS as a lone 11 weeks before she is due.

Kimberley

Thanks everyone. TC say i still get the child eliment of tax credits for her until she claims for herself and the baby when born or i will continue getting TC for her and the baby when born. My daughter says i can claim and she will only claim IS for herself as i pay for the food and gas and electric etc. I hope the person on the phone is right if not i'll see when my new entitlement form comes through the post next week.

skylight

Kimberley wrote: »

Thanks everyone. TC say i still get the child eliment of tax credits for her until she claims for herself and the baby when born or i will continue getting TC for her and the baby when born. My daughter says i can claim and she will only claim IS for herself as i pay for the food and gas and electric etc. I hope the person on the phone is right if not i'll see when my new entitlement form comes through the post next week.

Your DD is wrong here - she cannot claim IS whilst you get the CTC for her. Once baby arrives, your DD will make a claim for CB and CTC in her own right for her baby and you will have to cease your claims for her.

My case is a bit different as my DD is 17 and still at college. I still get the CTC and CB for her under those circumstances but I also claim for her little one. She cannot claim for herself as she is still under my care at 17. Even at 18 and over, if she remains at college, the finances remain as above and will only change when she decides to leave education and enter employment.


Do CTC know that she is no longer at college though? Have you looked at the criteria for the materntiy grant?

Kimberley

Dognobs wrote: »

HAs nobody aske the dad for support? Or just another single teenage mum on benefits? Get in the que for a free house, iPhone, ugg boots and good times ahead!

My daughter starts University in September 2012. She was supposed to start this year but because of the pregnancy they have saved her place for next year and have promised her a place at the Universities creche for the baby. She does not want a free house, we have plenty of space here. Once she goes to University she will come off benefits and apply for a student loan and childcare loan for the creche so she will only be on benefits from now until September next year.

She does not want a life on benefits but needs income until she goes to University and lives on her student loan.

Not everyone dognobs is a scrounger.

Kimberley

skylight wrote: »

Your DD is wrong here - she cannot claim IS whilst you get the CTC for her. Once baby arrives, your DD will make a claim for CB and CTC in her own right for her baby and you will have to cease your claims for her.

My case is a bit different as my DD is 17 and still at college. I still get the CTC and CB for her under those circumstances but I also claim for her little one. She cannot claim for herself as she is still under my care at 17. Even at 18 and over, if she remains at college, the finances remain as above and will only change when she decides to leave education and enter employment.


Do CTC know that she is no longer at college though? Have you looked at the criteria for the materntiy grant?

ok thanks, i'll have to phone them back up tomorrow to make sure they have all the facts. I think i will have to repay 3 months from when she left College in September or will they stop it from the day she gets her IS? It did say on their website that her CTC stops when she receives benefit so your right but as she has just claimed benefits and didn't when she left college will i still have to repay it back?

Rikki

A few years back when I had a CTC overpayment of a couple of months. CB stopped automatically but CTC didn't, they wrote to me and I repaid over twelve months.

Kimberley

My daughter is doing very well in her studies in childcare, she is not doing a course in how to work out benefits and therefore knows nothing about them . I am just trying to get things right so that i do not cheat the system because I'm no benefit cheat.

Kimberley

The OPs daughter left in September, baby due in February. She would have officially finished that year in July when she was pregnant so she's obviously stopped and started a course, hardly shooting star in terms of academics she came top in her class in college or she's actually been falsely claiming benefits for longer by mistake not on purpose

Also, in June mum would have signed a declaration saying daughter was intending to stay in education in order to keep getting CTC that is correct this declaration states that all changes of circumstances must be reported i'm onto that doesn't your daughter walking in pregnant and dropping out of school count as a change of circumstances? Perhaps not to the OP but definitely to HMRC if she claimed benefit such as jsa yes but she hasn't claimed anything until last week