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chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 35935 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 16 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Lorrainelovesplants wrote: |
I think the point Chez is trying to make is that she needs to be working to claim tax credits.
She is finding working and trying to maintain her own health and that of her family situation increasingly hard.
If she can continue to claim tax credits then this opens the door to other credits/benefits.
Although the whole system will change soon, she needs to justify what she is doing, the fact that she cant devote more time to it etc to the deciding authorities. |
Yes.
The housing benefit thing is a side issue - just that they've changed the way they assess it for the self employed. Regardless of what you earn, if you are self employed, they assume you are working 35 hrs a work and earning £7.20 and you have to justify yourself if you aren't.
Tightening up the Tax Credits is a similar thing - I guess they are looking at wiping off people claiming who are just pretending to run a business. Our issue is that we are spending so much time caring (or fitting) that we have run the business down considerably and if we ditch the market, we will probably no longer fit the claim criteria.
I have no issue with claiming what we are entitled to, but I don't want to claim if it's legally or morally wrong.
It might be less stress to stop claiming the working tax credits, which will drop us £53 a week, and just keep on doing the market, actually. I hadn't thought of that. Does anyone know what impact that would have on other benefits? I will obviously look on CAB etc websites. I don't think we can manage without the housing benefit and if that is impacted, it would be an issue. We don't claim any other work related benefits. |
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