Tax credits have gone up LOADS!!!!! (updated page 2)

[Amanda]

I rang them just over a week ago as Charlie's nursery fees went up starting 1st May. While I was on the phone, I asked them if I had to wait for our renewal form to tell them the our estimated income for this year would be a lot less and she said that she could take all of the information from me there and then.

As I'm on SMP, our joint income for 09/10 will be about £8k less than 08/09. I've had the update through today, and our tax credits have gone up by £135 a week!!!!! We're getting over £1k every 4 weeks!!!

And I've done our renewal for last year and I had under-estimated our joint income by £3300, so we should hopefully get some back on that once it's sorted!

No wonder we've been so bloody skint for the last year. We can finally start chipping away at the credit cards we've had to use to live on!!

 

[Arcanegirl]

Ooohh nice one

 

[ablaze]

fabby doo!!! i just had my renewal through need to get it filled in

 

[Becky]

I just have done my renewal as well! and my income has gone down by over 3k so hopefully I will get a nice suprise x

 

[FEDup1981]

1k? wow - does that include nursery fees as well ? Go treat urself!!

 

[ablaze]

thst more thn i get wi me an craigs incomes lol!! an we nly earn about 10 between us!! jammy sod

 

[PrincessSoph]

wow thats a lovely suprise for you!

 

[Amanda]

1k? wow - does that include nursery fees as well ? Go treat urself!!

Yes it does - we pay £468 a month on nursery fees. But last year we were only getting £242 a month in tax credits!

 

[dreams]

Great news

 

[v2007]

Lovely, i thought r income last yr was 15000, turns out it was just over 12,000 so fingers crossed we shud get some more pennies as well.

V xxxx

 

[maddiwatts19]

lucky you!!! x

 

[Duffy6684]

I had put my income at 11,000 but was a pure guess because it was a new job. When I checked our incomes mine was only 6000. What does that mean? Will we get more money each week or will it be a one off? I've never underestimated so much before.

Sorry for hijacking btw lol

 

[Abz1982]

Boo, we get like £20 a week cos of what I was on before maternity leave........next year isn't much better if I don't go back to work, but my job is FT only so need to look for a new job. Calculated I need to earn under 8k a year to actually get anything worth while.

It seems that if your income is over 40k then you get no childcare help, and very little anything else - if i go ft I will be paying £700 a month in childcare, out of a £1100 a month salary.......for a 160 hr month. Not much point as that £2.50 an hour .

 

[Amanda]

OMFG!!!!!! I've just logged onto Internet Banking and there's a lump sum of £1600 in there!

They must have done the final calculations for last year! That means we should have been getting around £150 more every 4 weeks last year. We've really been struggling and can see why now!

I cried when I saw it!

I'm going to do so much shopping this weekend!!!!

 

[lollylou1]

thats fab hun, so glad you have got what you are entitled to

Lou
xxx

 

[kaylynn040485]

Oooh lucky you, go treat yourself as it sounds like u deserve it after scrimping all year! Kx

 

[Jo]

that it great stuff hun, nice to know they can get it right once in a while

 

[mum 2 three]

OMFG!!!!!! I've just logged onto Internet Banking and there's a lump sum of £1600 in there!

They must have done the final calculations for last year! That means we should have been getting around £150 more every 4 weeks last year. We've really been struggling and can see why now!

I cried when I saw it!

I'm going to do so much shopping this weekend!!!!

hope minmes that quick i esimeted last year i would earn 4000 and hubby 16000 it vwas actully me 3349 and hubby 9789 does that mean il get sum back hope so