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Working tax credit and apprenticeship
BAKERBOY_2
Posts: 4 Newbie
Hello everyone
I am 29 and unemployed (for a year now) and I am thinking about doing an apprenticeship, even though I know it will be hard due to my age. What I have an eye on is a 1 year apprenticeship that pays £150 pw (not training allowance), doing 8-5 5 days a week.
1. Will I be able to claim working tax credits if on this apprenticeship?
2. Last week I got my letter from them (the entitlement for this year), and it said I will only get £1037.70. After, I used the .gov online calculator just to do a rough check, and the figures were the same and it gave me an estimate of £2076. The difference is big. Would I only get what was in the letter?
I will only be able to do an apprenticeship of this wage if I could be working tax credits, because it will mean moving out of the family home and moving away
I am 29 and unemployed (for a year now) and I am thinking about doing an apprenticeship, even though I know it will be hard due to my age. What I have an eye on is a 1 year apprenticeship that pays £150 pw (not training allowance), doing 8-5 5 days a week.
1. Will I be able to claim working tax credits if on this apprenticeship?
2. Last week I got my letter from them (the entitlement for this year), and it said I will only get £1037.70. After, I used the .gov online calculator just to do a rough check, and the figures were the same and it gave me an estimate of £2076. The difference is big. Would I only get what was in the letter?
I will only be able to do an apprenticeship of this wage if I could be working tax credits, because it will mean moving out of the family home and moving away
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Thanks.blondebubbles wrote: »Yes you can claim WTC for an apprenticeship.
If you are currently unemployed, how do you have a current WTC claim? Or do you have children and are also claiming CTC?
I don't know how it works, but I have claimed for the past 2 or 3 years (but last year until July I didn't get any because of what I earned previously), and then notified them last year when I stopped working. Just want to point out they aren't paying me now, due to me not working, but the calculation letter thingy said it was based on a 39 hour week. All my details were correct on the letter.
Just find it strange that the letter and the online calculator has such a big difference0 -
I think I will have to make the dreaded call and be put on hold for hours tomorrow.blondebubbles wrote: »If you aren't working you should not have any entitlement for this year. Are you sure they know you have stopped working? Are you sure the letter is for this year?
They know/did know that I am not in work. I have the letter they sent me confirming the change last year.
I have just looked at this entitlement letter a recently got and looked again, and yes, it is for this year0 -
A 1 yr apprenticeship?...........What subject is it in?..0
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