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TAX CREDITS! PLEASE HELP

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crunchie · 08/02/2006 14:12

A collegue at work has just been awarded £87 A WEEK Working tax credits. I am sure this is wrong and have told him that they will try to claw this back.

He works, his wife does not, they have 2 kids. One in part time nursery (she is over 3). I don't know his exact earnings, but I understand there is a cut off point/upper limit of what a family earns to not be paid this. I believe it is around £20Kish pa. He also has some savings.

£400 a month is surely for people on a low income.

I get £547 a year (or whatever the basic rate is) which is about £10 a week. I am convinced this is all he should get.

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sparklymieow · 08/02/2006 14:18

could it be for the year, over 7 weeks??? if he has only just applied it could be that he was entitled for the whole year.

mcmum · 08/02/2006 14:22

I Hate tax credits they got mine completely wrong even though i told them several times they insisted it was right then came and clawed £1000 back ! i appealed but i still have to pay back i have now told them i dont want to claim a thing. warn your friends to check, double check and triple check it is right or they will have to repay every penny

beckybrastraps · 08/02/2006 14:22

Backpay perhaps? Seems a lot, but I don't know what his income is. I just know you need to be absolutely sure that you are give them accurate details for this year, as they base calculations on last year, and then adjust accordingly at the end of the year. That's how people I know have got stuck.

Kidstrack2 · 08/02/2006 14:28

Could it be child tax credit and not the working tax part of it that he's maybe getting mixed up on! Def agree Its too much I'm a stay at home looking after 2 kids so I know a bit about the payments and dp gets £11 a week working tax credit and we are a low income family.

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crunchie · 08/02/2006 14:44

OK please tell me the difference between Child Tax Credits and WOrking tax credits?

My understanding is that I get Child Tax credits of £10 a week (ish), but any additional CHILD tax credits are payable for childcare costs.

Working TAX credits is for families on a low income, which has an upper limit os £XYZ

Last year he wasn't working (or so he says!) He was - or he says his wife was - getting loads of benefits whilst he did cash in hand jobs!!

I have said he needs to put the money aside and be sure before he spends it. As it is he is a dodgy with a limited company that he uses to claim VAT back on stuff ggggrrgh

I really feel like shopping him

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beckybrastraps · 08/02/2006 14:58

Hmmm - if he didn't work last year, that could be the reason. Like I said, you have to give an estimate of what your income for this year will be. If you don't, they take the details from last year, and make that their estimate. Then when you have to confirm your income for the past year, they make you pay back the difference. He needs to make sure they are basing it on what he is paid NOW.

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