Tax credits new tax year

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I am a single working young mother, i work 28 hours and I live with my parents at the moment but I am looking to move out to rent a house of a friends. I get working tax credits and child tax credits of around 700 In total which also covers 2 1/2 days at nursery. This past tax year I only worked for 6 months as I was on unpaid maternity and had to go on benefits, however this year I will be working double and my income will be around 12000 I am worried that my tax credits are going to go down a good few hundred or more and that I won't be able to afford this house, can anyone help me or give advice and will tax credits help me and take into account that I will have moved out? Thank you girls

no they wont take in to account the fact you have moved out, but you might be able to get housing benefit
Is it tax credits or universal credit?

Have you tried putting the numbers into entitled to?

Did you tell them that your income was going to be higher?

As PP said you can use entitledto to. do a benefit check. If you are moving to a full service universal credit area you might want to go to cab to see whether the change would mean you have to apply for universal credit instead.

ucpostcode.entitledto.co.uk/ucdate

I had tried entitled to however it hadn't come up with universal credit although I have now looked into it and It would Help me a lot! Thank you

If your income was lower last tax year because of maternity leave then your tax credits will most likely go up for tax year 2018-19. You will need to keep them updated with estimates of earnings though or you could end up with an overpayment. As you are working more than 16 hours you should be entitled to working tax credits as well as child tax credits.