Drop in income - making new claim

[sian05]

My DH recently lost his job. He has been offered another one but the salary is significantly lower. I was looking online to see how much we could claim in tax credits but because it asks for last years income it says we don't qualify. How do we make a new claim based on what we will be earning now? Thanks for any advice

I was told to make a claim based on the previous years income, wait to be told I wasn't entitled and then ring to give them the expected earnings and they'd update it but that was a few years ago. Don't know if it's different now.

Thanks. Do you remember how long it took for the whole process?

Exactly as baking says. Just be sure to try to estimate earnings for 2017-18 as accurately as possible to avoid overpayment.

That's great. Thank you

I'm in the process of doing this, it took two weeks for the form to arrive, I sent it back the day it came. I then got a text message acknowledgment a week later saying they had received it but that processing could take up to three weeks, that was a week ago so expecting to hear next week. I think they back date it though.

I didn't know new claims could be made for tax credits. I thought it was universal credit now?

It's only Universal credit in some areas.