Reclaiming child tax credit

Flumpster

alison999 wrote: »

lol its funny you have the time to post rubbish comments on here and watch jeremy kyle, but you dont have the time to find out what benefits you're entitled to!

Never watched it - I am, however, aware of it as a form of artistic expression for the intellectually challenged of our society.

alison999 wrote: »

i cant be bothered with this anymore, good luck getting what you're "entitled to", your BABY deserves it, not you.

Bye then.

Flumpster

tigtag02 wrote: »

You DONT have a legitimate reason to claim it ~ ergo our advice was not useless just not what you wanted to hear ~ why is that so hard to understand :rolleyes:

Well, that's a matter of opinion. I don't have a legitimate reason in the eyes of the tax office but that doesn't necessarily make my reason ethically illigetimate. They set an arbitrary cut off point of 3 months which I personally happen to believe is too short, hence why I'd not consider it a moral faux-pas to lie to the tax office to claim the tax credits that I could have claimed had I been aware that I was able to claim them.

If you think that 3 months is fair then that's your prerogative but let's not pretend that the fact that a cut off exists implicitly makes it an ethically fair and correct cut off period.

Flumpster

shellsuit wrote: »

For crying out loud, you had your answer from the horses mouth, how can we advise you if the TC's people can't?

It's not that they can't, it's that they won't.

shellsuit wrote: »

Why not ring them back and get to speak to somebody else and see what advice they can give you.

I intend to. Thank you.

mitchaa

Cant be bothered to read half of this drivel but flumpster, just for the sake of the 3 months and your attitude, it couldn't have happened to a nicer person:D

I have absoloutly no sympathy for your case, i think 3 months is an ample amount of time. If you have not claimed by then, its only you at fault for that.

Where do you set the cut off? Most people are switched and dont need this amount of time! Why should they set the rules differently to suit people like you? People that cant be bothered to do a little research into things like this a bit sooner, ie before the baby is born:rolleyes:

Why would you leave it this late when your child was born last August What have you been doing all this time, twiddling thumbs?

3 months and you should count yourself lucky that you're getting any:rolleyes:

The sore point here is, CTC baby element is only applicable until the baby is 1yrs old and then gets removed after that....... OH well, sh*t happens ...Only way you learn I'd assume when child number 2 comes along, you'll be a lot more switched on and wont be making this mistake again;)

Lesson learned, move on!!!

Oldernotwiser

Flumpster wrote: »

Well, that's a matter of opinion. I don't have a legitimate reason in the eyes of the tax office but that doesn't necessarily make my reason ethically illigetimate. They set an arbitrary cut off point of 3 months which I personally happen to believe is too short, hence why I'd not consider it a moral faux-pas to lie to the tax office to claim the tax credits that I could have claimed had I been aware that I was able to claim them.

If you think that 3 months is fair then that's your prerogative but let's not pretend that the fact that a cut off exists implicitly makes it an ethically fair and correct cut off period.

You may not call it a "moral faux pas" to lie to the tax office but many of us would consider it to be benefit fraud. You keep on about having 3 months but unless you're from another planet from the rest of us (something your posts seem to support!) you and your wife would've had many months BEFORE your baby was born to prepare financially for the birth. Just because you couldn't be bothered to get your act together is no reason for the rest of us to collude with you in inventing lies so that you can defraud the taxpayer, particularly as we're the very taxpayers you're planning to defraud!

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I offer my apology to anyone who is offended.

Flumpster, if you just want an arguement - p!ss off elsewhere.

You will most likely not get your claim backdated further. If you want to request backdating you need to request it in writing.

SuziQ

Wow flumpster-talk about over-reaction! These good folk are giving you good-free-advice and as everyone else feels you over-reacted maybe you could 'revisit' your attitude! People on here are only trying to help-simply a case of 'don't shoot the messenger' I think!

PeskyPenguin

shellsuit wrote: »

Actually, I'm with you on this. There should be a pack of some sort, about the financial side when you've just had a baby, which could be given to the Mother of the child when they are checked out of the hospital/given by the midwife at home etc

I know each Mother is (or should) given a pack about claiming child benefit, but there really should be one explaining Tax Credits

H Shellsuit, there is a leaflet enclosed with the Child Benefit form in the Bounty Pack which is where I found the number to call last year after my baby was born x

Wonder if Flumpster actually, with his extremely busy hectic schedule, managed to fill out the Child Benefit form? :rolleyes: (something inside of me is hoping he missed out on that too! ).

By the way, Flump, you're not called Fred are you? :rotfl:

skoda38

just had a thought, why not make the time limit for backdating benefits
the same as the revenues limit for underpaid income tax.

bestpud

I think three months is pretty good tbh, especially when it is simply due to the claimant not taking the trouble to find things out!

I fail to see how a new baby is an excuse because, by default, every new claimant will be in that position - won't they?? And this baby is almost a year old now too!

We'll probably see this very same thread started several times, in the hope that someone new will come along and give them the answer they want to hear! Even the answer they want is the wrong one! :rolleyes:

You just can't educate pork!