Changes to Tax Credits from April 2012

narabanekeater

just a thought with you being short just a little bit what about a Sunday morning paper round

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Rustic_Ron wrote: »

This government want sacking!!! Do they realise they are hitting the most vunerable working people in the Uk.... I thought they wanted people in work but with stunts like moving the wtc goal posts they will force more people back into benefits!...

Well personally I think it's a bad thing if 2 healthy adults cant work a full-time job between them! I'm convinced its going to increase to 30 with universal credit anyway. I'm a single Mum and manage 21 hours easily.
I struggle to understand the "There arn't any jobs" mentality but then I appreciate I am quite lucky as I live in an area with lots of jobs available. I know this is not the case for everywhere, but I have never been unemployed and never would be. I've constantly got people wanting me to work for them and approaching me!!! But I'm happy where I am for now.

FBaby

I have to say that this post is leaving me puzzled. you as a family made the choice to have children before -or during- studying. it is also your choice not wanting your choice not to put your youngest to nursery full-time.why should tax payers subsidise your choices which they themselves dont have? My children went to nursery full-tome before the age of one. it certainly wasnt my ideal choice but what I had to do as a single mum to support them. Everyone is entitled to their own choices but dont rely on others who bypassed those choices to support them. you are noe left with either upping your hours as a couple somehow which frankly is still only up to a very limited amount or accept to subsidise your own choices.It wont be your ideal choice of work/study/home life balance but neither is it mine to support people who dont want to work more than 16 hours as a couple.

marie-momof3

Hi all, be kind I'm a newbie!

Can Martin or someone at MoneySaving Towers please investigate the tax credit changes. It appears to me that the very poorest in society are being penalised for being poor!

I have just been informed that as a family we will be £30 per week worse off, I have 3 children, one of whom is disabled, so presently I am unable to work and my partner is self employed and last year earnt only £9,600, he works over 30 hours per week. I really don't understand the changes and believe me I am not DIM!! The call centre staff can only tell me that its due to Government changes and will not elaborate. I have looked at their website and the examples they give aren't applicable to my situation and I cannot find out the formula for working this out, if there is one.

So out of frustration I turn to Martin, please will someone look into this. It makes me angry that the Tory government whom I voted for are kicking people when there already down. I mean, why are we still giving aid to India, Brazil and Argentina? Why havent they introduced the Mansion Tax? I will never vote for them again. Aren't we all in this big society and in it together? What a load of tosh..

Rant over, thanks
Marie

Icequeen99

marie-momof3 wrote: »

Hi all, be kind I'm a newbie!

Can Martin or someone at MoneySaving Towers please investigate the tax credit changes. It appears to me that the very poorest in society are being penalised for being poor!

I have just been informed that as a family we will be £30 per week worse off, I have 3 children, one of whom is disabled, so presently I am unable to work and my partner is self employed and last year earnt only £9,600, he works over 30 hours per week. I really don't understand the changes and believe me I am not DIM!! The call centre staff can only tell me that its due to Government changes and will not elaborate. I have looked at their website and the examples they give aren't applicable to my situation and I cannot find out the formula for working this out, if there is one.

So out of frustration I turn to Martin, please will someone look into this. It makes me angry that the Tory government whom I voted for are kicking people when there already down. I mean, why are we still giving aid to India, Brazil and Argentina? Why havent they introduced the Mansion Tax? I will never vote for them again. Aren't we all in this big society and in it together? What a load of tosh..

Rant over, thanks
Marie

I haven't done the calculation but given the increases in the child elements (including the disabled child elemengs) I am fairly sure you should be better off next year.

You say your partner's income last year was £9,600 - do you mean for the 2010-2011 tax year? What is his 2011-2012 income expected to be?

IQ

Morlock

marie-momof3 wrote: »

It appears to me that the very poorest in society are being penalised for being poor!

It makes me angry that the Tory government whom I voted for are kicking people when there already down.

What did you expect? Tories are not renowned for being sympathetic towards the poor, they are sympathetic towards the rich getting richer.

They based their election campaign on 'benefit bashing', did you forget that you received a lot of income in benefits? Or was it that you thought that only the unemployed benefit recipients would be punished?

You voted for them to cut your own income!

I suspect a lot of others, like you, are now realising that they have bitten their own nose to spite their face. :rotfl:

shedboy94

marie-momof3 wrote: »

Hi all, be kind I'm a newbie!

Can Martin or someone at MoneySaving Towers please investigate the tax credit changes. It appears to me that the very poorest in society are being penalised for being poor!

I have just been informed that as a family we will be £30 per week worse off, I have 3 children, one of whom is disabled, so presently I am unable to work and my partner is self employed and last year earnt only £9,600, he works over 30 hours per week. I really don't understand the changes and believe me I am not DIM!! The call centre staff can only tell me that its due to Government changes and will not elaborate. I have looked at their website and the examples they give aren't applicable to my situation and I cannot find out the formula for working this out, if there is one.

So out of frustration I turn to Martin, please will someone look into this. It makes me angry that the Tory government whom I voted for are kicking people when there already down. I mean, why are we still giving aid to India, Brazil and Argentina? Why havent they introduced the Mansion Tax? I will never vote for them again. Aren't we all in this big society and in it together? What a load of tosh..

Rant over, thanks
Marie

To be fair, I would hardly class you as the poorest in society - with your WTC / CTC / CB / DLA / probably HB/CT Benefit, possibly Carers allowance, you are probably receiving more in benefits than most people in this country earn

bloomingflower

Morlock wrote: »

What did you expect? Tories are not renowned for being sympathetic towards the poor, they are sympathetic towards the rich getting richer.

They based their election campaign on 'benefit bashing', did you forget that you received a lot of income in benefits? Or was it that you thought that only the unemployed benefit recipients would be punished?

You voted for them to cut your own income!

I suspect a lot of others, like you, are now realising that they have bitten their own nose to spite their face. :rotfl:

Its funny what you have just said here.Too true.

I was just thinking the same thing the last few days of how exactly all the Tory voters have now come unstuck. These are the very same people who voted them in who are now going to be suffering from their own party's new welfare reforms.

Tory voters thought that they were untouchable. Pity them.

BigAunty

Student loan? Uni hardship loan?

jaffa19

We don't have a Tory Government, we have a Coalition Government made up of Tory & Lib Dem MPs