DLA and Child Tax Credits

[LindyOB]

Morning, I have tried to find an answer to this on the Internet but come up at a loss. My son has recently been awarded mid rate DLA and low rate mobility. I work so am only entitled to child tax credit but i did inform them of his dla as soon as i got the decision. My tax credit has just gone up by approx £6 a week due to a change. I can't see the full details as i havent received a revised award notice. I did expect it to be a bit more than that after looking online, so wondering if the disability element of child tax credit is reduced depending on how much you earn? Does anyone know? Just didn't know if it was worth waiting in the telephone queue to the tax credits people so before I put myself through that i thought i would ask on here. Thank you ☺️

Gingerbread helpline is good for this sort of thing OP if you are a single parent.

It is reduced by earnings, yes. They add up everything you are entitled to (e.g. child elements plus disability element) then do a reduction based on your earnings off the whole lot. Still worth checking though as I would have expected more of a rise too.

Yes I second using a benifit calculator, you might find yourself better of on UC. I don't know fully how it changes with tax credits but It doesn't sound right.

Try Google benifit calculator, use it first for tax credits then do it for UC.