Child tax credit child over 16 delay?

aaroncaz

Darksparkle wrote: »

You don't usually get the missing payment paid as a lump sum. They calculate what you are due between 1st Sept and 5th Apr then divide that between the number of weeks left.

Yes I know that but the weekly amount is actually slightly down even the guy said it made no sense.

Darksparkle

aaroncaz wrote: »

Yes I know that but the weekly amount is actually slightly down even the guy said it made no sense.

Have you got the award notice yet? Have you added the amounts up to make sure they equal the annual amount that you are entitled to?

aaroncaz

Darksparkle wrote: »

Have you got the award notice yet? Have you added the amounts up to make sure they equal the annual amount that you are entitled to?

No not yet, that's what the advisor kept saying to check my award when it came but that it was correct.

Darksparkle

aaroncaz wrote: »

No not yet, that's what the advisor kept saying to check my award when it came but that it was correct.

That's the first thing for you to do. If it adds up then there's nothing you can do. If not then you can take it further.

athensgeorgia

Just wanted to add that mine is the same.

My usual payments were £194.xx. Last week it dropped down to £132.xx while I waited for the new details to kick in. Just received this week's payment and checked online and my new payments are £189.xx per week. With my daughter back on my claim (she was missing last week).

I don't understand how I can be missing £60 from last week and a further £5 weekly until April. They have my up to date details and nothing has changed since my renewal.

WantToBeSE

My tax credits were down to £62 last week, from the usual amount, because they had taken my 16 yr old off the claim.
I had phoned them up in September and told them he's be continuing in FE.
I called the TC helpline, but their message said to wait until the next payment date and it would be backdated.

So today was my next payment date, and it was reinstated and the claim was actually £8 more than it used to be.

I also got my new award notice today, confirming that my new payments would be the amount i received today.

I wouldn't bother phoning them, this happens every year and it'l sort itself out. Just wait for the award notice and it'll explain everything.

WantToBeSE

athensgeorgia wrote: »

Just wanted to add that mine is the same.

My usual payments were £194.xx. Last week it dropped down to £132.xx while I waited for the new details to kick in. Just received this week's payment and checked online and my new payments are £189.xx per week. With my daughter back on my claim (she was missing last week).

I don't understand how I can be missing £60 from last week and a further £5 weekly until April. They have my up to date details and nothing has changed since my renewal.

Would it be less because he is no longer classed as a child?

athensgeorgia

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Would it be less because he is no longer classed as a child?

I wouldn't think so. She's 16 and just starting A Levels. For tc and cb purposes she is still a claimable child.

I haven't received the award letter yet but hopefully that will be able to shed some light.

zagfles

athensgeorgia wrote: »

Just wanted to add that mine is the same.

My usual payments were £194.xx. Last week it dropped down to £132.xx while I waited for the new details to kick in. Just received this week's payment and checked online and my new payments are £189.xx per week. With my daughter back on my claim (she was missing last week).

I don't understand how I can be missing £60 from last week and a further £5 weekly until April. They have my up to date details and nothing has changed since my renewal.

Tax credits work on an annual basis not a weekly basis. It's probably just to do with how many pay dates there are in the two claim periods. Have you been getting £194 since the start of the tax year?

athensgeorgia

zagfles wrote: »

Tax credits work on an annual basis not a weekly basis. It's probably just to do with how many pay dates there are in the two claim periods. Have you been getting £194 since the start of the tax year?

Since renewal was finalised yes.

That's what I don't get. I know they're annual. If nothing has changed since my renewal other than a child leaving high school and going to college why has my award come down by £210.

Funnily enough, she now costs me more than she did when she was at school and that's even without having to buy uniform.