overpayment

shedboy94

sharp910sh wrote: »

You only entitled to child benefit. I would just fess up and pay the money. I mean come on you are on £35k +3.5k bonus!

How do you know this?
Unless you are psychic and know how many children the OP has, or what their childcare costs are, then you are presuming.

FBaby

sharp910sh wrote: »

You only entitled to child benefit. I would just fess up and pay the money. I mean come on you are on £35k +3.5k bonus!

Yes, come on....she probably has huge childcare costs, and once these are paid and the rest of work associated costs, she is probably hardly better off than someone claiming full benefits, but yeah, come on, how dare you complain! Keep paying your taxes so others can benefit from the same then you without the stress of work...

Saying that, the overpayment shouldn't come at such a huge surprise. I agree that the whole thing is completely confusing, but you must have question being able to get so much each month in tax credits in addition to your monthly income.

tides

sharp910sh wrote: »

You only entitled to child benefit. I would just fess up and pay the money. I mean come on you are on £35k +3.5k bonus!

Oh, excuse me for trying to get some child-related tax relief from the government (at their suggestion, in fact, I was convinced that I didn't qualify). Yes I work pay a ton in before/after school fees and school holidays and my disposable income is almost non-existant since last year.

I believe the current system is not encouraging people to be in work but that's another story... I believe it can be solved partially by providing subsidized or free childcare to all or most and NOT child tax credits/cash back to parents who might or might not be working. And I won't even go into housing benefits and all those benefits..

So yeah, I think it's unfair -- I'm a mum and work fulltime, I always paid paxes in full ever since I left school and was never unemployed except during maternity -- and as you pointed out I only qualify for child benefit and yet I have to fork out £6-7/hour in childminders fees, per child - those are London rates. And again, I work full time. And I'm a mum the rest of the time.

Not sure how they are planning on changing things but the recent ones -- relaxing ratios for child care staff to children, cutting child benefit by looking at individual income and not household income, etc -- these won't help families at all.

Topic closed as far as I'm concerned. Thank you all who offered suggestions and clarified things. Yes - I was naive and ignorant not to check it more than I did - but at the same time the govt can do a better job at writing letters, creating forms, and dealing with these things. At least that, if they're not capable of creating a better system.

Cheers.

sharp910sh

tides wrote: »

Oh, excuse me for trying to get some child-related tax relief from the government (at their suggestion, in fact, I was convinced that I didn't qualify). Yes I work pay a ton in before/after school fees and school holidays and my disposable income is almost non-existant since last year.

I believe the current system is not encouraging people to be in work but that's another story... I believe it can be solved partially by providing subsidized or free childcare to all or most and NOT child tax credits/cash back to parents who might or might not be working. And I won't even go into housing benefits and all those benefits..

So yeah, I think it's unfair -- I'm a mum and work fulltime, I always paid paxes in full ever since I left school and was never unemployed except during maternity -- and as you pointed out I only qualify for child benefit and yet I have to fork out £6-7/hour in childminders fees, per child - those are London rates. And again, I work full time. And I'm a mum the rest of the time.

Not sure how they are planning on changing things but the recent ones -- relaxing ratios for child care staff to children, cutting child benefit by looking at individual income and not household income, etc -- these won't help families at all.

Topic closed as far as I'm concerned. Thank you all who offered suggestions and clarified things. Yes - I was naive and ignorant not to check it more than I did - but at the same time the govt can do a better job at writing letters, creating forms, and dealing with these things. At least that, if they're not capable of creating a better system.

Cheers.

It does not matter how much tax you have paid or how hard you work. You are clearly getting a good salary and not entitled to anything except child benefit.

If you do not like the system, vote for a different party come 2015.

£38.5k before tax is a lot of money. You cannot argue about that. Just tell the benefit office the truth. It is your responsibility to look after your children, you get the child benefit. According to the government that is enough.

Icequeen99

sharp910sh wrote: »

It does not matter how much tax you have paid or how hard you work. You are clearly getting a good salary and not entitled to anything except child benefit.

If you do not like the system, vote for a different party come 2015.

£38.5k before tax is a lot of money. You cannot argue about that. Just tell the benefit office the truth. It is your responsibility to look after your children, you get the child benefit. According to the government that is enough.

What rubbish.

How on earth do you know she is only entitled to Child Benefit. You can get tax credits on income far in excess of £38,000.

IQ