Hi can anyone help or give me some advice about my rights to claim backdated child tax credit?
I adopted my daughter in 2004 as a single adopter and because I had my own savings. I've stayed at home to look after my daughter all this time, whilst studying to become a Psychotherapist. I did not make enquiries about child tax credit until I ran out of money. I have since discovered that I have been entitled to this since 2004. At times when I was running out of money, I did seek advice from the Citizens Advice bureau and was given slightly ambiguous information. It was only when I found a job over the Christmas period and applied for working tax credit that I was told that I should have been claiming child tax credit all this time, (since 2004), because I have not been working. By law, are they obliged to backdate this money?