High Income Child Benefit Charge

Informer30

Hi,

Please can someone help or advise...

This morning I have received a letter advising I need to pay x amount of charges as I fall in the high income bracket and have also being receiving child benefit.

The facts above might be true, however these charges are going back to 2014 and I think this is really unfair as now raising all the charges in one hit...

My wife works part time and to be honest I was not aware of these changes or received any documentation....

Just wanted to get people views and thoughts and is there any alternatives....

Many Thanks

DUTR

Do you mean a couple earning over £x pa do not qualify for whatever payments it is?
It was well documented years back, it's just taken a time for them to catch up.

Darksparkle

They are well within the time limits for claiming the money back.

I don't see what's unfair about it. It was well publicised.

Informer30

Darksparkle wrote: »

They are well within the time limits for claiming the money back.

I don't see what's unfair about it. It was well publicised.

I don't recall this even so the system should have an alert mechanism which either prevents you getting child benefit in the first place or stops soon as you get to that threshold. Its about crazy for the ways it is working. And I am not even going into detail of the policy, its all OK for 2 parents to earn £49K each however if one parents earns over £60K you are over the threshold !!!!!! kind of sense is that....very odd!