Heads up for those with children - Don't miss out!

AtlanticP · 20 Jan 2009 at 11:32

Thanks for the HU, will enquire and see if we qualify.

Sweetloaf · 20 Jan 2009 at 12:15

Huddy, you're a star, just been on the blower, looks like you've made me £1000 richer

Have some stars back

On that form I guess you claim for both years if your child was under 16 for the two time periods?

Wyrdo · 20 Jan 2009 at 12:25

Sweetloaf said:
On that form I guess you claim for both years if your child was under 16 for the two time periods?

No, you can only claim for the second year.

Energize · 20 Jan 2009 at 13:42

Excellent.

sist_si · 20 Jan 2009 at 13:47

i was gonna send this to my folks but my brother turned 16 in Feb 2001!
Doh!

malef!c · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:12

I phoned them up to check and the could hear the tax man smiling as he said I had already had it

platypus · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:14

So, families with children place more burden on health care, public service and so on, and get tax credits?

Energize · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:20

platypus said:
So, families with children place more burden on health care, public service and so on, and get tax credits?

And provide the future workforce and jobs for teachers. (Well they did before the poles moved over.

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malef!c · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:20

platypus said:
So, families with children place more burden on health care, public service and so on, and get tax credits?

Oh I do apologise for bringing new life into the world and enjoying life as a dad. If I knew I was burdening the world with my offspring I wouldn't of bothered.

At a guess you have no kids and if you look at the sorry excuse for the tax credit I receive for my 2 children you wouldn't be so expressive.

I get 40 quid a month tax credits for both of the kids, not each but 40 quid for both - so with the amount this government pishes away giving handouts to anyone and any country, I don't really think I am crippling the country.

Health care - I pay a chunk of national insurance to cover some of that, as does my wife. My children are being bought up not to sponge and will become valued members of this country. They are entitled, just like every one else for health care.

Wind it in sunshine and stop blowing stuff out your backside.

I hope you never have a child born with a problem that means you cannot work and that child needs hospital treatment often.

I hope you will remember this post as the biggest waste of time you spent as a keyboard warrior.

nikebee · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:26

Ah cool, thanks for the info.

I turned 16 on the 16th April 2002

So forwarded to my mum.

Sweetloaf · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:26

platypus said:
So, families with children place more burden on health care, public service and so on, and get tax credits?

And would that still be a burden if some of those children grew up to be the doctors of tommorrow?

The NHS would be kind of up **** creek without any in the future.

While they grow up, myself and my wife will work in order to be able to give them ever opportunity possible.

Ging3r · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:28

Just let me clarify, there is a limit, or there isnt a limit on how much your parents earn?

Will pass onto my parents anyway, see if it comes up with anything

malef!c · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:29

The amount your parents earn will be looked at - if you are on a fairly reasonable wage don't expect a lot. As I said above, with 2 kids I get about a tenner!!

AtlanticP · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:30

Scratch that, already answered lol

Scuzi · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:33

My mum has a sheet saying that children born after April 1986 fall into the entitlement. I was born in July 1985 yet I was still 15 in April 2001. I take it my mother is entitled to claim and the bit of paper she has is wrong?

Energize · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:47

Scuzi said:
My mum has a sheet saying that children born after April 1986 fall into the entitlement. I was born in July 1985 yet I was still 15 in April 2001. I take it my mother is entitled to claim and the bit of paper she has is wrong?

You can't claim for the 2001/2002 tax year because it's more than 6 years ago.

Ace Modder · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:53

£1000 for me!

platypus · 20 Jan 2009 at 14:57

malef!c said:
Oh I do apologise for bringing new life into the world and enjoying life as a dad. If I knew I was burdening the world with my offspring I wouldn't of bothered.

At a guess you have no kids and if you look at the sorry excuse for the tax credit I receive for my 2 children you wouldn't be so expressive.

I get 40 quid a month tax credits for both of the kids, not each but 40 quid for both - so with the amount this government pishes away giving handouts to anyone and any country, I don't really think I am crippling the country.

Health care - I pay a chunk of national insurance to cover some of that, as does my wife. My children are being bought up not to sponge and will become valued members of this country. They are entitled, just like every one else for health care.

I might pay more in taxes then you, and I pay for health care, and every other bloody service I want to use. My enforced NI contributions are wasted; of course I'm bitter about it.

If £40 a month isn't enough, perhaps you should be thinking about the costs of having children and have considered whether or not you can afford it.

This is just another handout discriminating against single people.

I couldn't give a monkeys if you enjoy being a father or not. What I care about is being in a country that is going down the ******* because of a financial crisis and it's handing out tax credits for people that have children? Wise up. If you can't afford them, don't have them.

el_dazza · 20 Jan 2009 at 15:05

I'm a bit confused as to what this is for..

Mum says she wasn't claiming child tax credit until March 2003, when we moved in with who is now my stepdad. Before that it was me, my sister and my mum. I personally dont know a damn thing about how all these tax credits etc work, but is it worth us filling this in, as I was under 16 during the stated periods?

Admiral Huddy · 20 Jan 2009 at 15:12

only way is to find out..

Scuzi said:
My mum has a sheet saying that children born after April 1986 fall into the entitlement. I was born in July 1985 yet I was still 15 in April 2001. I take it my mother is entitled to claim and the bit of paper she has is wrong?

I'm shocked.. I always had you down as being roughly the same age as me