CHILD TAX CREDITS - How long do they usually take to reply when you initially send your form off?

[LadyOfTheFlowers]

Was wondering as we are very hard up, just by way of a change, and are hoping for a bit of a back payment as I have never claimed in the 2 years we have had kids.

Silly, silly me.

And i need the central heating fixed before the weather turns shit.

only takes a few weeks normally

can i just say that depending on the level of tax credits you get, you may be entitled to a warm front grant, we just got one and they put in a brand new boiler for us fantastic

you can get grants for heating systems and for insulation on your house etc, we also got loft and cavity wall insulation

If you're sent the form back a few weeks ago, ring them and chase it up. They should push it through then so you get paid this week or maybe next. They may not bother otherwise until the time rolls around to make up the next months payment run.

Can I tell I used to work in accounts payable? .

'You' not 'I' even .

thanks guys!
btw way bookworm, you dont happen to remeber the 'chas up' number do you?

pretty please?
i cannee find my notes now.

Helpline nos
England, Scotland & Wales: 0845 300 3900
Welsh speaking line 0845 302 1489
NI or other EEA country 0845 603 2000
Overseas line 00 44 28 9080 8316

Hope this helps

it took about 4 weeks when we applied for the first time. Although i did phone to chase them as we hadn't heard anything from them and was told it had been action the week before and they were able to tell what payments were and when they would be going into my bank account.

Mines took 2 months so far No money for 8 weeks and its the summer fecking holidays

About 5 weeks - we kept ringing and eventually it turned out they had the wrong date of birth (god forbid they would ring us to let us know this).

They backdate payment to when the child was born but no more than 3 months backdated pay.

I will, i need a new set of batteries for my phone. Its dead as a door knob. So cant even bloody ring them.

they backdated 3 months but wont back date 2 years....
Bummer!
I really didn't know about it when Ds1 was born, i just assumed i would not be eligible for it.
i signed up for child benefit though....

Well ive got to send them my accounts, my rent statements, my sky tv bill at the best of times I can just abo9ut afford the licence fee FGS.
I think what it is, is I have had 0 income...ive been living with xp, using his money...and so they are wondering what ive been living off of.