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Help with childcare grant
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owenmonicapeter
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can anyone help?
I have rang student finance today and have been told that they take my husbands income for 2011/2012, then take off a disregard for our children, which apparently works out £9627
Leaving a residual income of £5935.
To be eligible for the Parents learning allowance and the childcare grant, the amount I am eligible to claim for both has to be above the residual income.(£5935)
PLA - up to £1508
childcare - up to £148.75 a week (actually only claiming £3822.72 over the academic year, totalling £73.51 a week)
The PLA and childcare combined is £9243, but as the amount of childcare I wish to claim is less, the total is £5330.72.
One amount is over and one is under the residual income, the guy I spoke to said they take what I am eligible for, not what I actually claim, so I should qualify, but couldn't explain why I was not awarded it!
Very confused and frustrated!
I have rang student finance today and have been told that they take my husbands income for 2011/2012, then take off a disregard for our children, which apparently works out £9627
Leaving a residual income of £5935.
To be eligible for the Parents learning allowance and the childcare grant, the amount I am eligible to claim for both has to be above the residual income.(£5935)
PLA - up to £1508
childcare - up to £148.75 a week (actually only claiming £3822.72 over the academic year, totalling £73.51 a week)
The PLA and childcare combined is £9243, but as the amount of childcare I wish to claim is less, the total is £5330.72.
One amount is over and one is under the residual income, the guy I spoke to said they take what I am eligible for, not what I actually claim, so I should qualify, but couldn't explain why I was not awarded it!
Very confused and frustrated!
April 2013 - £25771.75. DFD October 2022!
April 2014 - £18146.35. DFD June 2020!
April 2014 - £18146.35. DFD June 2020!
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