Working from home low income

Mrs_Gilf

Hiya,  I have had to work from home as I work in a school so during both lock downs learning was done remotely.  I don't earn enough to claim tax relief but surely there should be some help out there. I still used gas, electric etc just the same as a tax payer does.  Surely being on a low income I would need the help even more so. 

sammyjammy

There is nothing you can claim ,did you not save money in other ways?  Travel?  

mattyprice4004

You could have looked to see if you're entitled to Universal Credit or similar, but I'm not sure what the upper earnings limit is. 
The general assumption is that working from home costs are countered by other costs you didn't incur such as travel etc - if you're under the threshold there's no other help I can specifically think of. 
Perhaps ask the school, as they are the people who requested you worked from home? 

[Deleted User]

If you need help, you might be wise to approach whom your bills are with.

I remember eventually the Electric company understood and to be fair haven't tried to raise the rate that was lowered/agreed to 4 months ago (went from paying £100 monthly to £56) similarly a credit card recently I've admitted not being able to keep up with and I'm only able to make token payments 1% of the debt right now, guide that after so many days the interest and charges become frozen. (to me that's more of a plus then the likes of UC). Put better this time round UC was more then £411.00 if it was going to assist with a debt.

In a very dumb move, my last job was travelling 60 miles return trip each day, with a lovely £450 yearly price tag to pay to park up to go into a work place for earning £8.75 per hour (was pre latest minimum wage increase) I was working for a company on lemonade terms, but that was living the champagne lifestyle and that had given away 80% equity of the company, ouch.  

A school seems very secure job to me (never wanted to work in one).  Recently was approached by a company that only can/want to pay £8.91 and think they have got me on a bargain (with being relatively unemployed) free car parking and half the distance of the above job must be a win-win so it's also easy to turn things around.

sheramber

Mrs_!!!!!! said:

Hiya,  I have had to work from home as I work in a school so during both lock downs learning was done remotely.  I don't earn enough to claim tax relief but surely there should be some help out there. I still used gas, electric etc just the same as a tax payer does.  Surely being on a low income I would need the help even more so. 

Ask your employer to cover your extra expense since that is who is benefitting from you working from home.

You do realise  that i  you paid basic rate tax you would benefit by £1.20 a week.  That wouldn't cover a lot of gas or electric.  

poppy12345

mattyprice4004 said:

You could have looked to see if you're entitled to Universal Credit or similar, but I'm not sure what the upper earnings limit is.

That will totally depend on the persons circumstances and what their maximum UC entitlement is.

lisyloo

The WfH money you refer to is getting some of the tax back that people pay.
if you don’t pay tax then you can’t have a rebate on it.
not making a judgment, just stating the facts for the purposes of explanation,
it’s a reduction on people’s tax bills