Tax Credits Wftc Confused

kateyt34

Hi Everyone Will Be Thinking I Am Really Silly, Well This Is My First Post So Go Easy, Me And My Partner Are Thinking Of Moving In Together He Is Working 40 Hours A Week On 5.35 Per Hour I Am Unemployed I Have 2 Children One Is 12 And The Other Is 4 Ii Was Hoping Some One Would Be Able To Help Me Work Out How Much Money We Would Be Receiving From Wtc And Ftc I Have Tried To Work This Out On Entitledto.com But I Am Really Confused If Someone Is Earning The Same And Has 2 Children Could You Please Help Me I Do Not Want To Be Worse Off Together Many Thanks

liney

I think you will find a similar thread has just being locked.

Entitledto.com is very straight forward and will give you a good idea.

jungliemac

kateyt34...this is like a deja vu. hope you get the answers you want but to sum up the earlier thread that was locked (don't know why...maybe a bit heated?) just do whats right for your family not what will get you the most money....maybe speak to a cab advisor would be the best....good luck!

kateyt34

thanks for getting in contact i know thats what i should do but my son wants brand name clothing to fit in at school and if i dont have enough money to buy them he will get bullied in this cruel world , plus i really do enjoy going on holiday and if i have a lot less money that is a no no to go on holidayand lets face it everyone and their grannys go on holidays i need to be sure i can live happily thanks for your reply

seven-day-weekend

No comment.

krisskross

kateyt34 wrote: »

thanks for getting in contact i know thats what i should do but my son wants brand name clothing to fit in at school and if i dont have enough money to buy them he will get bullied in this cruel world , plus i really do enjoy going on holiday and if i have a lot less money that is a no no to go on holidayand lets face it everyone and their grannys go on holidays i need to be sure i can live happily thanks for your reply

LOL, methinks this is a windup. Still it made me smile on a dull Monday morning so can't be all bad

Kimitatsu

Hi Katy

Call you local CAB and ask them for a quick benefits check, they will tell you what you could be entitled to.

I would just say that my partner and I both work, we cant afford to go on holiday this year (or for the last couple of years come to that) and neither of my sons wear brand clothing and have managed to get through school and life without being bullied.

Amazingly we are all still happy :rolleyes:

Why dont you have a look on some of the other boards for some money saving ideas and see if you could make savings on your budget to pay for the luxuries that you want? Many families are in similar positions and are happy to share their ideas.

missylou_2

Yes, in total agreement with krisskross.

Thank you kateyt34 for taking the time to entertain us on an otherwise miserable day!

:T

kateyt34

yes you are probably right in what you say but my son has been bullied from nursery and now he is going to secondary school , he actually had a cheap t shirt on to the school leaving disco and his friends were slagging him , well of course i told him they are not true friends but it still hurt his feelings , my son is very quite , i was working for seven months there but had to stop because the person i had watching them got bored watching my kids for a few hours i have no parents to ask for help either i just thought in this world there was still considerate people i suppose i just asumed that everyone goes on holiday because everyone from the three towns where i stay goes on three or four holidays a year sorry for that mistake

badmumof1

im not even going to go there :rolleyes:

seven-day-weekend

No, everyone doesn't go on holiday, we didn't go for years when our son was small and after that we only went camping or staying with friends. It's only been since our forties we've been able to go afford to go further afield - and that's with my husband being a teacher! It was only when I went back to work full-time that we could afford to go abroad.

Buying your son designer clothes is not going to stop him being bullied, it is just playing into the hands of the bullies. Change his school if you can, if not go in and see the Head about the bullying.

As regards your benefit, you eally ought to be talking to CAB, they will see if you are claiming everything you are entitled to.