ADVICE PLEASE regarding DLA and tax

moonbeam2007

Hi, I thought I already posted this but doesn't seem to be showing.

Ok my son had been awarded HRC and LRM. The award started as from the 30th Oct 2013, I found out last week.

So I called the working tax credit but I did not call child tax credit as I forgot.

My questions is, are the CTC and WTC the same office, will one pass the information onto the other or do I have to inform both?

also, does either my WTC or CTC go up due to my son's award? if so does anyone know how much by?

Is there anything else I should do? or contact?

I'd be really grateful for some advice please. Thank you

Morglin

Never assume one department communicates with another - advise every department you deal with.

The DWP and the Revenue aren't the most competent of departments (and I say that as an ex staff member!), so best to cover all bases.

Lin

toomuchinfo

Working Tax Credits and Child Tax Credits are dealt with at the same time so you only have to make one phone call to Tax Credits.

Because of the DLA high rate care you will get the disabled child premium and the severe disability premium on the Child Tax Credits (my son gets high rate care), so it will go up by quite a lot and will be backdated to the date of the award.

The DLA dept will tell Tax Credits about the award which will tie in with your
phone call.

The disabled child element is £3015 per year and the severely disabled child element is an additional £1220 per year (April to April)