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Child Care Benifits-entitlement question
gman1980
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Good Morning members,
This is my first post. I am a working professional with an annual gross salary of £60,000. My wife is a homemaker and havent worked anytime. We are expecting twins soon. I would like to know whether she can claim child benifit ( even though she havent worked in the UK before). I have been looking around the gov.uk site but nothing is clear.
What benifits can we claim as a couple with regards to the children?
This is my first post. I am a working professional with an annual gross salary of £60,000. My wife is a homemaker and havent worked anytime. We are expecting twins soon. I would like to know whether she can claim child benifit ( even though she havent worked in the UK before). I have been looking around the gov.uk site but nothing is clear.
What benifits can we claim as a couple with regards to the children?
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You won't be entitled to any benefits.Good Morning members,
This is my first post. I am a working professional with an annual gross salary of £60,000. My wife is a homemaker and havent worked anytime. We are expecting twins soon. I would like to know whether she can claim child benifit ( even though she havent worked in the UK before). I have been looking around the gov.uk site but nothing is clear.
What benifits can we claim as a couple with regards to the children?Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman0 -
However due to your income if you did claim then you may come under the high income charge and have to repay some/all of it.
But see http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/sep/28/child-benefit-pension-contributions-higher-earners0 -
No benefit entitlement what so ever.make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
Just to add...blondebubbles wrote: »You don't need to have worked to claim child benefit. The eligibility details are here - https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit/eligibility
However due to your income if you did claim then you may come under the high income charge and have to repay some/all of it.
https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit-tax-charge/overview
On £60k it would be all of it, however it's still worth your wife filling in the form even if you don't want paying the child benefit, so she gets NI credits towards the state pension, see the link above.
But if you make pension contributions or gift aid these can be taken off your income, if this puts it below £60k you would get to keep some of the child ben. But you would need to do a tax return.
Have a search of this board, it's been discussed a lot.0 -
Has she moved to the UK from somewhere else? You can check here if she meets the criteria for claiming.0
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