Child Tax Credits, income and household earnings

[Daston]

Good evening peeps,

We became parents in February and have just started to look at how little the government is prepared to give us in order to pay the mortgage etc.

At the moment my wife plans to go back part time and this enables us to claim child tax credits for childcare and should mean we maintain the same income as we did before having a little person.

Now here is the kicker, my bro inlaw has just been offered a job in the same town as us and is looking at buying his first property. However he will be living with us until he does so, how does this effect our benefits? Do we have to declare his income even though he is not contributing in any way?

This is all rather alien to us as we have never claimed anything in our lives.

[Daston]

I'm not saying we can't afford it. I also know that all of PH members are on £100,000 a year plus have a coke and hooker fund to boot. All I am asking is if by offering our brother inlaw to stay will it effect the child tax credit?

[Daston]

Trabi601 said:

One for the council thread.

fking 'ell what a bunch of patronizing s you lot are lol

So just because you get income from benefits I now am on a council estate? So the rule should be I pay tax all my working life but can't claim what I am due. Hope you never lose your job and have to claim anything!

Jesus fecking christ its not like I am asking how to get disability allowance whilst working as a brick layer and night time bar staff.

Thank you for the at least one sensible answer the rest of you can enjoy looking down at us mere mortals from your ivory towers.

[Daston]

Trabi601 said:

Why should you get handouts just because you've chosen to breed?

Why do you think it's some kind of entitlement?



If you can't afford to bring up offspring without relying on handouts (I'm entitled, innit?) from the government, then you can't afford to have children and shouldn't have them.


This is all part of a much bigger issue, though - employers place more importance on paying shareholder dividends than they do on paying their employees a proper living wage. Of course, this is encouraged by government tax credits, which are effectively subsidising dividend payments in many cases.

hahah the fact is IT IS an entitlement, I voted for the current government they decided that people with families should get a helping hand, therefore we have applied. Not hard is it? Could we afford it without the help? Yes, does the extra money help us.....yes, so why shouldn't we?

It wouldn't be so bad if child care wasn't so horrifically expensive. It almost works out better financially for my wife not to go back to work which just seem broken to me.

Although it is nice to see that PH members can still read or at least skim the thread as good as your average daily mail reporter (if only Dianna were here).