Will We Be Entitled Too Any Benefits?

NoNoDrama

LOL really? When none of us would be claiming HB or council tax because we are working people on semi-decent salaries? Where is the scam here. Please enlighten me.

So with this in mind, how would myself or my partner be gaining any unfair advantage in anyway whatsoever?

Good luck with those debts btw

Sncjw

Based on 48k pre tax with child care and rent you still have 2k left over!

On 30k you have 900 quid left over. What would you be spending 900/2k a month on minus the household bills. I think if she went Back to work and you had 2k left over after rent and childcare and struggling you need to change your lifestyle

NoNoDrama

Sncjw wrote: »

Based on 48k pre tax with child care and rent you still have 2k left over!

On 30k you have 900 quid left over. What would you be spending 900/2k a month on minus the household bills. I think if she went Back to work and you had 2k left over after rent and childcare and struggling you need to change your lifestyle

I know, you aren't the first person to say this, but I am a natural worrier. What if this, what if that arrrggghhh but i thank you for a reassuring post.

Unimaginativeusername

Hope not. I’ll say the same thing to you as I say to anyone else. If you can’t afford to raise children then don’t have them, why should the taxpayer have to fund your lifestyle choices?

batg

bound to go down like a lead balloon
but
I think it's ridiculous that 2 people on nigh on fifty thousand would even need help with childcare for their own child.
what a world we live in when instead of making sacrifices to our lifestyle we instantly think others should pay out

gettingtheresometime

NoNoDrama wrote: »

LOL really? When none of us would be claiming HB or council tax because we are working people on semi-decent salaries? Where is the scam here. Please enlighten me.

So with this in mind, how would myself or my partner be gaining any unfair advantage in anyway whatsoever?

Good luck with those debts btw

So why worry about what she'd be entitled to if you split up?


Or are you looking at the figures to see how best to play the system?


As for my debts, well I'm proud to say I've dealt with the big ones, paying back every penny I owed. Now it's the few last remaining ones which are tiny in comparison as to what I've cleared. So no need for your luck thanks all the same

ViolaLass

NoNoDrama wrote: »

You are looking for something (and baiting) that isn't there. Us not living together/being married I would assume she was classed as single. Give me a scenario when it's not. And yes, I'll wait. I don't really see any scenario the benefits office would not deem you as single if you are paying rent/council tax individually at separate addresses!
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But you'd have to run two addresses if you did that. Double the rent, for a start.

xylophone

I've never lived with a partner before so want to know in case it didn't work out that she'd be financially sound and that my child would be too.

Presumably you would be paying generous child maintenance so wouldn't need to worry.....:D

tboo

NoNoDrama wrote: »

Other half pregnant my salary 23k , her 25 total £48k.

Childcare costs look to be at least £900 a month :eek:

Would we be entitled to anything towards childcare?

Also when she is on SMP (employer only pays that £140 per week after 6 weeks) This will reduce our combined salary too approx 30k? Are we are too claim for anything then? (obviously childcare costs not required during this period).

If we are renting at 650 PCM, what is the most cost effective way to survive with childcare costs etc? Both of us working full time maybe? I see plenty of females at work who only work 20 hours when they've just had children, why is this?

Thanks

NoNoDrama wrote: »

Thanks



What about help to childcare do we get something for that as well?

Also if the mother was single and on 25k the tax credits calculator says she would get:-

Child Tax Credit

You could get

£213.95 every four weeks
towards your household costs

Working Tax Credit

You could get

£273.17 every four weeks

I understand CSA doesn't affect benefits is this right?

So she could potentially get:-

£25,000 Salary
£213 per month Child Tax Credit
£273 per month Working Tax Credit
£20.70 Per week child benefit
+ Whatever my CSA payment would be??

This seems like a lot (which is a good thing obviously!)

So you're together at the moment as it's "we" "our" etc.

Then the answers ween't what you were hoping for so it's what will "she" get "if " she was single.

If she was single then why ask and obtain posible tax credit entitlement? It would be of no concern to you what she would receive. You just pay child maintenance and obtain a DNA if she isn't trustworthy going on previous posts

sheramber

From April 2018 the child care voucher scheme will be closed to new applicants. They will have to use the Tax Free Child Care Scheme but cannot claim tax credits.