Basically I'm 39 weeks pregnant with my first and would like a rough idea of how much we'll be able to claim in tax credits after baby arrives. I've used three or four different calculators and they all say different!
DP and I live together and we don't claim anything at the moment. He works full-time and earns about 13000 and I'm on maternity leave but usually work part-time earning about 6000. So a joint income of about 19000 pa.
Now these tax credits calculators all seem to ask for our incomes for 2011-12 but our circumstances were very different then. We lived together from October 2010 until August 2011 and then we split up and DP moved out. He was unemployed at the time and I was working two part-time jobs earning about 9000 a year. And obviously we didn't have any children. We got back together shortly after but have only been living together again since last month. DP has been working since December and I took my maternity leave from my second job around the same time but that is completely unpaid and I don't plan to return to that job.
Does anyone know what they'll say with regards to the complicated circumstances in the previous tax year? Or is anyone on a similar income and care to share how much they are entitled to? I know that's quite a personal question but a rough guide would he helpful. The calculators I've used have come up with figures between £170 for the year and £3000-odd!
:)