ooooh please help me i'm so confused?!

[Krystal]

My head battered with all this lol

Hoping someone can help.

Know i've left things late. I currently claim child benefit and have left child tax credits until now. I just called them and they say I am entitled to only £20.00 per week approx I thought it would be more than this. My OH works 37.5 hours a week I work 20 hours per week. Not a problem right now but when I go back to work £80 per month isn't gonna help much with the childcare costs Am I missing out on something?

 

[lulu]

Does that £20 include your childcare costs? I get £10 a week, my OH works 38 ish hours a week and I work £23.5. we don't get help with childcare as we use family and it has to be a registered child care provider to be able to claim.

 

[Krystal]

thanks for your reply hun, no it doesn't include the childcare costs they said I have to call back when I go back to work and have my hours and childcare set in place, i am using a registered private nursery though. Would be nice to see how much I was going to get before going back but guess not. grrr lol

 

[lulu]

there may be an on-line calculator that you could play about with, re: your possible hours at work and hours at nursery etc.

Might be able to give you an idea!?

 

[Krystal]

yeah I had a go of the online calculator and it said I would get £200?! lol ahh never mind, as long as I have applied for the right thing i suppose

 

[Princess_Puddles]

Thats better than nothing. All we get is £10.76 a month

I'm glad you're getting it sorted though.

 

[Babylicious]

we get about £43 a month I think our childcare costs are around £200 per month but we are both high earners.

You deffo get more if you pay for registered child care