My 16 year old is staying on in school, at the beginning of august I filled in the online declaration on the gov.uk website, there was a box to tick asking if you'd informed tax credits whichh i ticked no and it said 'we will inform tax credits for you'
Got my tax credits award through a couple of weeks ago which admittedly i only glanced at, saw my income was correct but didn't really look further as nothing else had changed, thinking I'd read it properly later.
Just done my filing today and read it properly and it says my tax credits for my eldest has stopped. I called tax credits and they had no record of him staying in education, i told them I'd filled in the online declaration and was told i needed to inform them separately.
My money is now going to be down this month and they've said once it's amended it may not all go in one lump sum but may be spread across my payments for the rest of the year which obviously is not helpful! Obviously i should have checked the award properly when it came through though so that is my fault.
Anyway, this is a heads up that if you have a child continuing in education and filled out the declaration online thinking it was all sorted, to check your award as tax credits may not have been amended.