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Hey guys,,
Basically, im off to uni in 2 weeks..at the moment my Dads maintenence goes into my mums bank account.
Now, I want to ask my Dad for it to be changed to go into my account as im moving away etc, but I know without the money my mum will really struggle, when I mentioned "ooo I wonder if Dad will change the account details over" she said like "shuuush dont remind him lol" so i'm like hmm...by rights it's my money??
So now i'm stuck, I feel awful taking it off my mum, but it's meant for me?
I dunno what to dooo?=( xx
Basically, im off to uni in 2 weeks..at the moment my Dads maintenence goes into my mums bank account.
Now, I want to ask my Dad for it to be changed to go into my account as im moving away etc, but I know without the money my mum will really struggle, when I mentioned "ooo I wonder if Dad will change the account details over" she said like "shuuush dont remind him lol" so i'm like hmm...by rights it's my money??
So now i'm stuck, I feel awful taking it off my mum, but it's meant for me?
I dunno what to dooo?=( xx
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I'm not sure that the maintenance money is for you per se, but more for your mum to provide shelter and food for you. I would speak to your mum and dad and find out what the deal is with the payments stopping etc, and if your mum would consider going halfs with you, with you both getting share. That way you'd both be getting some cash, but your mum wouldn't be totally stuck. But then, instead, you could just get a job?
Ah right, two totally different things then. Thanks for letting me know
The money is for your upkeep, and not just for you, as your upkeep includes such things as the upkeep of the family home. That said, the money should be getting spent mostly on you, rather than your mother, and if she is on a low income she should get a job (as should you).
All sorted now, was just abit worried about asking..hate asking for money and things argh!
And just for the record, my mum works full time, as do I.
Sorry to go off the subject, but Squeal, why did it stop in June? Child Benefit can be paid to a maximum age of 20 if a young person is in full time further education. If you left college/sixth form in June of this year your parent can continue to claim child benefit until 04/09/07 unless you start working 24 hours per week or more. If you then lost your job or quit, the benefit could be reinstated until 04/09/07.
It usually stops when the further education stops, which for college students can be June or July.
That isn't true. If a young person finishes their approved training course or further education course in June or July then child benefit is paid until the next fixed exclusion date following their leaving date, which this year would be 4th September. That is unless the young person starts working 24 hours a week or more or reaches the age of 20 between leaving FTE and 4th September.
Have to agree as i had my sons cb stopped this week because i failed to let them know my 18 yr old son was returning to full time education a quick phone call was all it took i was also told to ring on his 19th birthday and confirm he was still in full time education so payments would keep running hope that helps:yippe:
Hope you found the person you spoke with polite and friendly! In case it isn't obvious, I'm a Child Benefit Officer. Nice to get some positive feedback. :yippe:
brilliant tbh concidering its money for nothing which everyone gets
the person i spoke to was great gave great advice and thanked me for calling makes a change from tax credit lol:p
Not for Child Benefit, no. It's available to everybody, from the prime minister right down to ordinary folk.
He probably will claim it, because when you claim child benefit your child is allocated a national insurance number. If you don't claim it and they aren't allocated one they won't be sent one when they're nearly 16 and then they'll have to go to the hassle of appointments with DWP etc to be allocated one.
Aye, you're quite right, oops. Serves me right for typing off memory rather than reading the CPAG book.
It's a good job you're not a tax credit officer, because I'd have to brain you if you were.
Still, HMRC's fuck ups pay my wages :yippe:
:nervous:
I deal with a lot of tax credits and to be fair I've seen some pretty impressive cock ups. Some of them are down to the claimant not even knowing what they are asking about which suggests to me that the system is far too complicated for the average person.
I had some lady shouting and ranting about her "family credit" and how it hadn't been paid. I'm sat there looking at her tax credit record and it wasn't until she went "No, no the one that everyone gets every week" that I realised she meant child benefit and I had wasted 20 mins barking up the wrong tree. Also people have a habit of giving their net pay rather than gross pay for their tax credit renewals & changes of circumstance and then going mad when they end up being overpaid. I honestly think the old Family Credit / WFTC system should be brought back in where less responsibility is given to the claimant for providing the correct information. They also need to stop changing the names of the benefits as it only adds to the confusion!!
It's not the decision makers' (do you call them that?) fault, its the bloody computer system that does what it wants and ignores everyone. The thing I hate most is that HMRC will not, under any circumstances, admit a mistake unless you shout at them about it for weeks.
I'd agree about changing the names. But it amuses me how many clients still talk about the DHSS and ring up whingeing because they've had their "income support cut" (i.e. they've transferred on to the tax credit system).
The people on the tax credit helpline are called "advisers". It's not a job I would want at all, sometimes I can only work out what a customer is on about when they start showing me mini statements, award notices and P60's. Trying to suss all that out blind over the phone must be horrendous. Advisers only have the power to update the record based on the info taken on the phone rather than make a decision about the validity of the claim itself. "Decision Maker" I think is a social security term, relating to stuff like maternity grants, incapacity benefit.
Am I right in thinking you work for CLS and GWST works as a welfare rights adviser?
I'm a Child Benefit 'adviser' but just found out today that the helpline is being moved somewhere else entirely and I'll be processing tax credits claims. I can't wait! :nervous:
Oh you lucky girl!! I hope you get some proper training!! I'm not sure what I'll be going back to in June 08. I'm not too fussed really....a job would be nice
I think the whole system is a shambles and should have been left to the DWP to run, and I think I'd agree- the worst mistake was trusting what the clients say. I've just had someone on the phone last week playing hell about an overpayment that's "unfair", and it turns out that the overpayment was because she couldn't be arsed to tell HMRC that her bf had moved in.
Decision maker is a DWP/local authority term, what do they call the people who make the decisions at the HMRC? Even my trusty CPAG book doesn't tell me that
I can honestly say I don't know! Tax Credit Compliance Officers are the people who would look into a claim if they thought something was incorrect, but I think most of the decisions are made by the tax credit system itself.
Katralla - I have had similar problems myself and I've seen it happen to customers as well. Double barrelled or unusual surnames seem to fail security checks quite often from what I have seen (I don't know if you have one of those?) If you had popped into the tax office where I work I would have printed you off a payment schedule