Help with Child Tax Credits Form

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I have tried ringing the helpline but they aren't answering due to "a high volume of calls" :eek:

In the section where you have to list taxable benefits, I am unsure what to write. I have to give them my income from last year and up until early January this year I was receiving Incapacity Benefit. However I had been on this since 1994 and because it was Invalidity Benefit and therefore NOT taxable when I first claimed, it remained a non-taxable benefit up until the date I came off it.

Do I have to list it as a taxable benefit or not because strictly it wasn't. I moved on to Carer's Allowance after it stopped because my daughter is autistic and I am fully aware that IS a taxable benefit, so I know I need to include this.

Any help would be gratefully accepted in light of the helpline being out of action.

System

No you don't have to include that IB because it was so long term and is classed as non-taxable.

Anyone claiming it more recently does have to declare it. The DWP should be able to tell those people how much taxable benefit they received in the last tax year.

[Deleted User]

Pam is correct, you not need to declare the IB if it was received before April 1995.
You should get a P60 equivalent from the DWP which shows how much taxbable beneits you received.