Can I claim the £1250 Marriage Tax Allowance?

Fable1506 · 10 November 2022 at 4:08PM

Apologies in advance if I'm been dim....

I'm 70 years old, retired, married and have state pension plus a drawdown pension from which I take £900 a month and the very occasional one off for bills, holidays.

My wife is a carer for our daughter who is on full DLA and she spends 90%-95% of her time living at our daughters home - approx 12 miles away. My daughter is a single parent with a school age child.

Because of this she uses our daughter's address as her home address.

As a full time carer she gets approx £70 a week.

My question is am I entitled to claim the £1250 MTA ? Although needs must we live apart I'm at my daughter's every day ( they like my cooking, I'm told ! LOL ) . I'm just not sure that I am entitled to claim it ( although it would be handy! ) as she lives most of her time at our daughter's home, not ours.

p00hsticks · 10 November 2022 at 4:17PM

I'm not sure whether you living apart makes any differnce, but just to point out that it will be your wife who needs to apply for the allwance, not you, as it is the lower earner who must give permission to have part of their allwance transferrred.