Tax credits- We'll get nowt, Euro SIL and her family do :/

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Just having a quick look at tax credits to see if we'll get anything at all. Fair enough we earn too much and this government are wankers who are stripping the poor so I'd rather it go to someone very needy but what annoys me is my SIL is a resident of EU and therefore can live here and claim here enjoying a much longer maternity leave than I can dream of.

Presumably if she lives here and claims here, and is on mat leave, she also works here and pays taxes here?

She's on a low income, so she gets Tax Credits to help her with the cost of living. I don't see the problem with that.

Ah well.... Your little niece/nephew will benefit from it, so no problem really....is it?

I assume your sister in law works here and is a low earner so entitled to her tax credits , i assume this is where she lives with her husband ?

YABU. Ninthwave covered it.

Works part-time when not going on the sick and fully expects state support for everything. First words out of her mouth when I asked what she was doing for childcare: "The state will help". More to do with my attitude to her laziness but expectation to have everything on a plate than any 'coming over here, taking our jobs' thing.

Wants house, car, wedding with the works, etc however doesn't want to go back to work if she can help it.

Where is her husband in all this? Your brother ? Or bil..

you get Uk residents like this lazy people are lazy people imo YANBU to be pissed off at her lazyness however as has been said she lives here so ..

drip drip drip :o

BIL. Works his socks off.

So in actual fact, her being an EU resident is completely irrelevant: what you resent is her personality coupled with the fact that she gets tax credits and you don't (presumably because you are earning too much).

Or do you mean she can live her and British people can't? Or she can get tax credits here and British people on similarly low wages can't? Or British people cannot and never do claim similar rebates in other EU countries.

Would you like me to tell you about the amazing system of tax credits in Sweden? I used to know quite a few Brits who lived there.

You don't like her much do you?

I'm trying Ilovesooty. Really am.

Maybe her being EU resident is irrelevant. Just hate it when anyone expects the world on a plate and doesn't want to work.

Your brother allows her to act that way though, if he disagreed with the state paying for his child or the fact his wife is lazy he could change the situation.

She is only getting what others get though..

And you yourself 'expected' it when you went in tax credit website to see if you were 'entitled' to anything!!

So your hardworking BIL is against the claim for TC then?

Yabvu.

Wants house, car, wedding with the works, etc however doesn't want to go back to work if she can help it.

She wants stuff! How very dare she.

Has she got a plasma tv and a goat?

Maybe her being EU resident is irrelevant

Yes it is irrelevant. Seems to piss you off though OP

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Why thank you Fist. I have seen the error of my ways. Thank you all.

I don't see why she should work if she wants to be a stay home mum and your BIL is working and happy about it.

if you BIl is working what is wrong with her staying at home with the baby ? millions of parents do it whats wrong with her doing it ,

I dont work and got a little bit of tax credits i am not lazy or entitled

YABU, It doesn't mean she is lazy if she doesn't want to go back to work. I stayed at home when my children were small because that is what we thought was best for the children.