Anyone feel like working out my entitlement??

lucysmumwork

Hi hope someone can help.

We currently claim TC and get the basic family element due to our situation which equates to £10.50 per week. We have one child who is 2. I am pregnant and due in five weeks and just about to take maternity leave. As I understand it we will be entitled to another £547 per year for the new baby from this date. Then, when I return to work (end of next March so practically the start of the new financial year conincidentally) this will change things. Can anyone estimate what we would be entitled to when I do go back? My husband earns £19640pa, and I earn £8500pa. I have tried to ring, and been on entitledto but you cant do projected figures. My daughter is in nursery now and we pay £17 per week and when I come back to work we will be paying approx £59 per week for the two. (I only work three days a week, 22 hours).

Hoep I have proivided all the relevant information.

Many thanks x

SuziQ

I can't help as I m in the same situation as you ie wiating to here what I am entitled to,but wish there was a govt run phone line or drop in to do these calculations accurately!

stuckonthephonewithidiots

You can find a benefits calculator at
www.entitledto.com

or the tax credits website also has a calculator

Nomad25

Try entering your all your details on www.entitledto.co.uk, that should give you the info you're after.

mitchaa

The yearly entitlement is £545.

You get a further £545 pa in a childs 1st year yes.

On an income of £28k, i would imagine this is all you will be entitled to. i dont think you will get help with childcare as the amounts are too low. im sure there is a minimum criteria of around £125pw.

lucysmumwork

Thanks for your reply, I do appreciate that in relation to our household income, our childcare is very low. My husband claims £55 per week childcare vouchers, I only work three days a week and byy the time no 2 is in nursery next year my daughter will be going to state nursery for morning sessions which brings down our costs aswell.

I have tried the calculators but as I am trying to work out what I would get next year it gets a bit confusing as I know that it is worked out on your previous years incomce. So what we get now is based on me and my husband having a joint income of around £25000 (last years wages) but next year it will be based on around £20000 since I will be on maternity for nine months and it will be based on what we are earning now. I got confused when trying to do projected figures.

Thanks x

Loopy_Girl

mitchaa wrote: »

i dont think you will get help with childcare as the amounts are too low. im sure there is a minimum criteria of around £125pw.

Where did you get that info from? Am just curious as you are quite vocal about how you don't need the 'benefit' tax credits so wonder why you would know information.

I get £31 a week childcare and previous I have received £11.00 a week in childcare and it has never ever been a problem for me.

mitchaa

Loopy_Girl wrote: »

Where did you get that info from? Am just curious as you are quite vocal about how you don't need the 'benefit' tax credits so wonder why you would know information.

I get £31 a week childcare and previous I have received £11.00 a week in childcare and it has never ever been a problem for me.

Depends on your salary doesn't it. If you are at the low end of the scale, sub £15k then you probably will get the little amounts paid.

I played around with some figures as i will soon be putting my child into care, but i earn too much in order to get childcare paid for at the levels of what it is going to cost me. (About £35 per day 4 x pw)

My joint income is currently at around £66k, i did not qualify for anything at £150pw childcare.

To see where i would qualify, i decided to play around with the calculator,
I dropped my income down to around £40k for the calculator and increased my childcare upto £200 and yet again, no entitlement.

At around £30k earnings, £125pw didn't qualify you for anything, but £150pw entitled you to a little bit, £200 a little bit more, and £250pw a little bit more again. (no -where near 80% though, more like 10-20% of cost)

That is where i got my info from, try it yourself and play around with the calculators.

Its not a fair system, all childcare should be the same regardless of how much you earn. Why should some get it for nothing but others have to pay for it? Thats a whole different argument though.

My information is not duff as you suggest, try the calculator on the HMRC website and all will be revealed

mitchaa

Loopy_Girl wrote: »

I get £31 a week childcare and previous I have received £11.00 a week in childcare and it has never ever been a problem for me.

Also are you 100% sure that this is solely for childcare reasons? Its not WTC or CTC? It actually states on your award that this extra £11/£31pw is paid due to childcare costs?

Loopy_Girl

mitchaa wrote: »

Also are you 100% sure that this is solely for childcare reasons? Its not WTC or CTC? It actually states on your award that this extra £11/£31pw is paid due to childcare costs?

errr...yes. I use an after school club.

Loopy_Girl

mitchaa wrote: »

Depends on your salary doesn't it. If you are at the low end of the scale, sub £15k then you probably will get the little amounts paid.

I played around with some figures as i will soon be putting my child into care, but i earn too much in order to get childcare paid for at the levels of what it is going to cost me. (About £35 per day 4 x pw)

My joint income is currently at around £66k, i did not qualify for anything at £150pw childcare.

To see where i would qualify, i decided to play around with the calculator,
I dropped my income down to around £40k for the calculator and increased my childcare upto £200 and yet again, no entitlement.

At around £30k earnings, £125pw didn't qualify you for anything, but £150pw entitled you to a little bit, £200 a little bit more, and £250pw a little bit more again. (no -where near 80% though, more like 10-20% of cost)

That is where i got my info from, try it yourself and play around with the calculators.

Its not a fair system, all childcare should be the same regardless of how much you earn. Why should some get it for nothing but others have to pay for it? Thats a whole different argument though.

My information is not duff as you suggest, try the calculator on the HMRC website and all will be revealed

Fair enough. As an outsider reading in though it looked like it was a general sweeping statement and not specific to OP's salary.

I shall take your word about it re the figures as quite frankly I am only interested in my salary and don't play around with figures just for fun!!!!!!!

And with regards to the childcare I agree......whole messy can of worms there so we shall stay away from that particular boiling pot!!!!!!!:rotfl: :rotfl: