Working tax confusion

[daisyage]

Hi I'm single parent of 1 working 6.5 hours a week I was looking to go up to 16 hours and would have received £70 working tax credit a week. After arduous calculations conversations with council HMRC Jobcentre it looked clear I would be worse off doing 16 hours which I was gutted about Another single mum in my work place has two children and said when she worked 16 hours she got £180 working tax credit a week -no childcare element. I understand someone with more children would receive more Child Tax Credit but I'm flummoxed as to why someone with more children than I do received over double the amount of working tax credit I would get for doing the same job same hours does anyone understand these things and could explain please?

She is most likely adding child and working tax credits together, it's a commonly made mistake. Working tax credits are a top up for people working certain number of hours and child tax credits are an amount of having kids. In your case you would just get child tax credits. There is no way anyone gets £180 wtc.

Thank you babyroobs