Universal credit and working full time (TAX)

[BMWqueen]

Hi just wondering if anyone can help
me and partner claim UC
we get usual living allowance 1 child element housing cost and I’m on lwrca so approx £1500 per month
partner been working last year full time mosh give and take few hours/ days ect when no work was in aprox £1000 month
now we never paid tax last year would have been stupid o honk to pay tax on a low paid job and been on uc too

since April’s just gone they have started taking around £20-£30 tax of partners wage, should we be paying tax we didn’t last year
Any help would be appreciated
he can earn £300 next week and be taxed at say for eg £27 it absolutely mad then after pension and NL there is nothing left of his wage really xxx

@ Babyroobs ?

What is the tax code on his payslip?

If you go on the HMRC website he can have a look and see how they've worked out his tax code

Your post is unreadable in some parts but yes @babyroobs may be able to understand what you're trying to say.

Your post is quite difficult to follow OP.

Is the £1,500 you receive benefits or income?
Can you confirm approximately what he can expect in an average month?

Your partners payslip (and yours if you are employed) should state the tax code

Thanks il look at his tax code
sorry I’m sahm will health issues
the icsi is £1500 but we end up with about £900 per month they deducted money off for his wages
his wages are usually around the £270 mark but he’s not contacted to certify hours so his hours are up and down every week

Sorry I’m rubbish at explaining

He can earn approx £241 per week before he pays tax if he has a tax code of 1257L - anything over this he'll only pay 20% so still worth earning more. Paying tax is just a part of life unfortunately and what funds the welfare state that pays your universal credit...

On Universal credit, as you have a child on the claim and LCWRA you get a work allowance so the first £344 of your partners net wages are disregarded and then anything above that reduces your total Uc by 55p for each pound over £344. So if he earns £1000 in your monthly UC assessment period the £360.80 will be deducted for earnings from your total Uc amount. If he earns over around 12.5 k a year he will be taxed.

£900 sounds way too high an amount to be coming off your Uc for wages. Are you sure there are not other deductions like an advance repayment or , or is your rent paid directly to your landlord?

Tax code is 1275L

But don’t know if this is wrong as I haven’t rang them as I don’t understand fully what I’m doing lol

Last year is was 1275L too but didn’t pay tax last year

It’s just changed to 1257L

Partner says it’s always been 1257L he told me it wrong
but he wasn’t in much last week no work his pay this week shows £14 tax back to us
we just don’t get it lol
next week he might do 40 hours, his hours varies every week they are not set but we have never paid tax till now last 5 week or so

We end up with around the £900 mark out of £1500 sorry I don’t explain very well but does go up and down slight as weekly wages do @Babyroobs

check it's not NI instead as that rate went up so we're all paying 2% more

He didn’t pay NL this week as he only had about 18hours in of that

if that*

What week did he start working last year?

if he started part way through the year after not working for the beginning of the year he will have not used up part of his allowance.

for example if he did not work from April until November, but started his job on 1st November his 12500 allowance will have covered November to March.

what was his year to date earnings on his match payslip? Was it below 12500? If so that is why he did not pay tax last year.

You get tax back if you had a good week followed by a low week. This is because you have paid too much to date for the year.

March payslip not Match

Tax is done in real time now. if you've overpaid taxi it will generally be returned to you in the next pay cycle.
You will still pay tax on wages but UC work out their calculation based on your take home pay so if you pay more tax one month and your wage is lower, your UC will be higher.