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Confused! Can anyone help?
jetty
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Hi, my partner receives ESA whilst i have been working as an MSA for 6 and a half hours a week. I have been offered a different job at the school i am at and will be working 17 and a half hours a week. I have tried to use the benefits checker on here to see if we would still get topped up with ESA or if we would be able to get working tax credit, but every time i put in our details, it says something different! So far, it has said we would get £35 a week ESA, then it said we would get nothing, then it said we would get £75 a week working tax credit, now we are back to nothing! I just want to know where i stand and exactly what we will get when i start in sept!
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
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I have 3 children (which i get CB for) i'm not disabled, but my partner is suffering an illness which means he cannot workMan who run into airport turn-styles is going to Bangkok
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It sounds as though his ESA is income based, which would mean if you receive working tax credits, it would be more than ESA.Sealed pot challenge #232. Gold stars from Sue-UU - :staradmin :staradmin £75.29 banked
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It sounds as though his ESA is income based, which would mean if you receive working tax credits, it would be more than ESA.
So we would be entitled to working tax credit? It's just that the benefits checker said we wouldn't be... well, at one point anyway! :wall: lol!Man who run into airport turn-styles is going to Bangkok
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So we would only get WTC if my partner is on the contributory employment and support allowance, not for income related?Man who run into airport turn-styles is going to Bangkok
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So we would only get WTC if my partner is on the contributory employment and support allowance, not for income related?
You need to look at your partner's ESA award letter and see if he is on contribution based ESA. Adding you as his partner means that you could just have an income based 'top up'.
If he is on contribution based ESA then yes, your working over 16 hrs a week would mean that you would be entitled to working tax credits as well as child tax credits and he would keep his contribution based part of ESA but it would be counted as income for tax credits purposes.
Phew! I agree that it is complicated.0
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