I am self employed, I became so at the beginning of last year and contacted HMRC to register, all good, I am about to file first tax return but will come to only enough to pay schedule 2 NI this year. Around June I received a reminder to renew tax credits online. Previous year had been employed and so over limit to get them but now with just DH's wage and my small income from self employment I thought we may get something. So I filled in the online form as a self employed person with an estimated income and pressed submit etc, site said thank you etc.
So now it's January and I've heard nothing, not even a you get nothing notice that they usually send. Does it work differently with self employed people? Are they waiting for my tax return or do you get nothing because you're self employed? We've been managing without but even a small amount would come in handy if we are entitled and I thought at least we'd get a reply. Is this usual, should I bother? We don't claim anything else.