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Child tax credits, does this sound right?
Thriftylady
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When my daughter was born I changed jobs and took a significant pay cut (approx £10k) as my commute and working hours made it impossible to return to my old job. At the same time, my daughter started going to a registered childminder. I have spent about five months trying to get this information across to the child tax credits people :mad: and they have now contacted me to tell me what my new payments are, and they are about half of what I was previously receiving.
Does this sound right? If the idea of these is to support working families, why on earth was I entitled to more help when I was earning more money?
Does this sound right? If the idea of these is to support working families, why on earth was I entitled to more help when I was earning more money?
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I would check that they have updated your income estimate for the year to take in to account that your not earning your original wage for the full year and that part of the year will be at a lower wage.I no longer work in Council Tax Recovery but instead work as a specialist Council Tax paralegal assisting landlords and Council Tax payers with council tax disputes and valuation tribunals. My views are my own reading of the law and you should always check with the local authority in question.0
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Tax credits are calculated on the previous years income - as long as the difference is within 25000 quid
estimates of this years income are irrelevant until looking at next years tax credits - my guess is that this years calculation is based on your declaration of last years income
The good news is you will probably be well off from April 20080
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