Has anyone been entitled to good tax credits then no UC?

[mayaknew]

This has just happened to us. There goes being able to pay bills

Have you checked what you're entitled to? There is a website where you can do this. UC make A LOT of mistakes.

www.entitledto.co.uk

Yes I did and they tell me we are entitled to nothing. I knew we wouldn't be getting as much I just didn't realise we would be getting fuck all

This will be us soon.

Myself and DH both work full. One of our DC is disabled.

At the moment we get around £200 a month tax credits. We won't get any UC. Dreading the change over when it happens. We already struggle damn it

I actually don't understand this at all. We are entitled to universal credit but we weren't entitled to tax credits. It just doesn't compute.

This will be most people soon, if they'd said "we're gonna get rid of working tax credits, pension tax credits and stop helping families with disabilities" they'd never have been voted in. Too many thought UC was an out of work benefit,and wouldn't affect them, and here we are. They came for us last.

We found it better for one parent to stop working than try and manage 2 lots of childcare fees. One parent works, the other stays home, we save the fees and having someone at home can cut costs in terms of keeping an efficient house. Very 50s.

Childcare fees are unachievable to many without subsidy. I don't count on the unemployed list though.

Am also dreading UC as a self employed single parent with seasonal income. Not gonna go well is it?

"Very 50s"

Yes, totally this.

Managing our disabled daughter will mean it'll make more sense for the family well being if I quit my job, become her full time carer and claim carers allowence. It's fucking ludicrous

I have a high work ethic and am desperate to remain in full time work while raising our family but the move to UC makes this increasingly bloody difficult impossible

How on earth do you stop getting tax credits as it turns into universal credit?

I won’t qualify for UC. I currently get £450/month TC.

I am crossing my fingers TC hang around a bit longer...

@PrawnOfCreation

I disagree and think people would still have voted for them.

Plenty of people think of a disability is not visible it doesn't exist and know person X who still
Managed to work etc.

Also some people are unable to understand other people's circumstances and some people have swallowed the anti benefit rhetoric so completely that they can't see any reason why people should receive them.

I'm from Hartlepool they have just made a show on our town being one of the first places to start getting universal credit it painted our town so badly they have picked the scummiest people the could find for the show! Personally I don't thing universal credit is that bad I work 16 hours and have a 10month old I receive £125 pw from work and £425 pm from uc £200 and something for me and £200 and something for having little man on top of £20 child benefits a week take me to £1000 a month

I agree, tory voters aren't known for their empathy

What criteria has changed that so many are losing money? We got tax credits for years and it kept us afloat

Same here. £450 on tax credits. £0 on UC. Dreading it.

According to entitled to I'm not getting enough tax credits by about 80 quid.

It's a race to the bottom. Consolidating so many benefits into UC was in the Tory manifesto (for those who bothered to read it ) and many still voted for it, even those who would eventually be affected by it!

what really pees me off is that I would be better off giving up my business and going unemployed than sticking with it. makes no sense whatsover but that's how UC works.

How does it even work? I'm so confused by it all.

Not been swapped over yet. Jobcentre lady said "it's a load of scaremongering, nothing to worry about" when I asked how it was likely to affect me

@mayaknew why did you get switched to UC?

There was a group of us called the Frothers who were warning about this on here back in 2011 and we got told we were scaremongering and being stupid.

I was one of the Frothers and i think there are a couple more of them still on MN

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/3479693-Changes-to-Pension-Credit

Im 23 years younger than DH In a lot of cases the younger spouse becomes the older spouses carer. This is the position i am in.

Using our age gap as an example i wouldnt be SPA until i am 67 as i was born in "73.

So DH would be classed as being of working age for Pension Credit purposes until he is 90 NINETY. And living on a lower rate until then.

Ive already seen nasty comments on Twitter like how its our own fault as we should stick to ppl our own age. Nice. hmm

Well i cant help who i fell for back in 1992 when this didnt even exist..

This is going to hit older people and their spouses carers very very hard and increase the pressure on the social care system. And Adult Social Services.

And only for new claimants? Bad enough on its own but people are already talking about a migration over like UC. People who have already been on PC for a while are already going to be 70 +

They want the younger spouse carers to be available for full time work? Then social care will have to step up because some of us wont be able to do both.
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HelenaDove Tue 15-Jan-19 14:20:53

DH has a mobility scooter. Which has to be maintained which costs money to do. And a shed to store it in which he pays a fee to the HA for.

Its not cold cuts in the fridge and sex every night for age gap couples despite what they may think.

oh look there is that scaremongering trope yet again x posted

It’s been scaring the shit out of us for a while. Self employed, both of us. Things are shit, but we can’t risk finding another job because it will trigger UC. How crap is that.