Large increase in child tax credit plus massive one off payment

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Hello!

Just looking for advice or others in similar situations please.

checked my bank today and had a massive payment from child tax credit on Wednesday along with todays usual payment that was a lot higher than normal ( nearly double the usual weekly amount) my child was awarded DLA in august (high rate care and low rate mobility) which was backdated from march time.

We renewed our tax credits in july so I am wondering if this is an adjustment since we started claiming DLA? Would they know this?! On my gov.uk account it says ‘This is because of a recent change and is to help you get the right amount of tax credits’ next to the massive one off payment ( wed 9th oct ) and also next to todays usual payment which has nearly doubled. The next few weekly payments are also at the increased amount.

We hadn’t informed tax credits of our childs DLA award either and had been planning to do the mandatory switch to universal credit in the coming days.

I apologise if I haven’t been clear enough! It seems like a large increase and until I can contact them on Monday I can’t work it out! Any help would be excellent thank you 😊

will post amounts if needed 😃

If you just did your renewal could you just be owed it from last year?

it has gone up a few pounds each year however the new weekly amount as of today has nearly doubled and then with the large one off payment too it wouldn’t make sense that it is owed to us from last year 🙂 I am very confused

Whenever I've had similar it's always been correct.

A word of warning about UC. If you work don't start the claim near your pay day as in months where you get paid twice in one assessment period IE payday is on a Sunday so you get paid on Friday instead., they stop your money as you took home ££££ that month and then give you lots of UC the next month as you haven't been paid and its a bit of a pain to sort out. - It does get sorted out but if you can start the claim in the middle of your pay month you wont have that issue.

This is very helpful, thank you!

A quick back of a fag packet calculation says CTC for one child (before any parent's earnings) is £66.29/week.

If the child is on HR DLA (C) that goes up to £178.50, approx £112 more.

Does that tally approx. with what you've had!

TBH I'd have expected you to have needed to tell Tax Credits about DLA but there's much more communication between DWP/HMRC than used to be the case. I can't see any provision on the application form for any info on Parent's benefits except for one about Income Support - a legacy benefit - right at the end.

I think you need to call HMRC and check. A friend of mine is in a battle over an alleged overpayment from before 2010.