Can you claim tax credits without claiming benefits?

theone999

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tomtontom

Unless you have children or a disability you will need to work 30 hours to claim working tax credits.

theone999

blondebubbles wrote: »

We would need more information.

Are you single? Living with a partner?
Children?
Disabilities?
Age?

Single, no children, no disabilities, 25.

tomtontom

theone999 wrote: »

Single, no children, no disabilities, 25.

Then you don't qualify for WTC.

theone999

blondebubbles wrote: »

As a single person with no children or disabilities you need to work at least 30 hours per week and earn less than £13,000

Thanks, I almost never work a full 5 day week.

suse*

WTC is a benefit just to be clear, it is an in work benefit but this is why people who assume people on benefits are scroungers are so wrong. As both in work benefits, and even pensions are all types of benefits, when they talk about the massive benefits bills on the news it isn't just housing benefit or sickness etc they are talking about.

arcon5

Except when people talk about scroungers on benefits they are usually talking about a certain category of people not your full time worker on low wage.

Cyberman60

.....and a state pension is not a 'benefit'. It is an 'entitlement' based on years of National Insurance contributions paid over the working life of that future pensioner and paid at state retirement age.

Benefits are not an entitlement but a nicety endowed by the taxpayer to others less fortunate and so can be withdrawn at any time for various reasons, for example economic unsustainability or political reasons.