what are we entitled to? please help....

[robbie09]

My partner has recently moved in with my & our babies. My housing benifit was stop which i understand but they stopped everything else to so im now supporting to children of child benifit. I have sent off new tax credits forms, is there any other help i should know about? Im a fulltime mum at moment & my partners in full time work

Can't your partner help with the bills? you will have to wait until your tax credits claim is assessed and then you'll get whatever is owed plus any back payments.

We are in rented house he pays that & pays the bills & pays for shopping & everything are babies need & we just cant afford it, so all i was wondering is is there anything else i can claim that i dont know about as soon as my youngest is 8months i will be going back to work but thaats a good few months yet

We are looking to move so if we have cheaper rent that would help alot

you have a full time wage coming in plus child benefit.

do you get housing benefit too?

this is it......what were you thinking you could claim?

you are going back to work??

so presumably you are on maternity pay too?

No i dont get housing benifit, which i have stated.
No i dont get maternity pay, when i said going back to work i ment going to look for a job & put my children in a nursery. As for having a fulltime wage coming in its low income and we probally pay out close to 2 grand a month.

All i wanted was some advice, ill delete my thread & wont bother next time!!

Wait until you get the tax credit assessment. If you have a very low income you may be entitled to council tax help of some sort. Also may be entitled to help with dental costs etc.

Try the entitledto.com website and put in your details to get some idea of what help you can get.

Hope that helps a bit.

Thankyou antshouse

That's quite a lot of outgoings per month, is there some items which you can cut down on / get rid of until your financial situations improves?

erm,why the strop??

obviously,housing benefit is stopped as you earn too much.....yet you say its low income...

i was wondering what you had in mind as extra help here?? tax credits wont take too long. what else did you have which has been stopped?

Tootlesmummy, we have already cut out all oir extras wwe dnt need. We pay 900 rent every 4weeks, council tax, we have 2 babies which need alot & my partner pays child maintance for another child he has, then all bills on top of that. Im not fussed about getting benifits and housing benifits i just wanted a little bit of help until our tax credits is up & running. Unlike many mums i want to earn a living but my babies are just to young at moment, before i had them i always worked

This may seem like a long shot assuming the current climate but £900 rent for someone on a low income is staggering. I suggest applying for social housing.

Its all very well cutting down on luxeries, bu your other half is paying for another child elsewhere, so this is also having an effect on you monthly outgoings.

Apart from tax credits, can't see anything else you could be entitled to unless someone in your houshold is classed as having a diasbilty.

Is there any possibility you and your partner could live separately and you claim benefits as a lone parent.

Some people will see this as playing the system, but I suppose you want whats financially best for your children at this present time, as it seems from you post you have recently given birth.