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Hi
Quote from HMRC
"If your child lives with more than one person - Only one household can get Child Tax Credit for a child. You might look after a child who sometimes lives with you and sometimes lives with someone else. You can't both get Child Tax Credit for the same child, so you'll have to decide who should get it. You can't claim Child Tax Credit if your child doesn't live with you at all - even if you're paying maintenance."
Does a person that does not work get tax credits? I dont know anything about my ex's benefits, but the HMRC web site says that you dont have to be receiving child benefit to get tax credits.
I earn around £15K, the tax office says that I may qualify for my one child.
I read that in the USA parents can split which benefits they claim for, with the consent of the main carer. With more than half of marriage breaking down and many single parents, you would have thought that politicains would be supporting both parents, and not just single mothers.
I think the telling phrase there is "with the consent of the main carer" - over here, if the main carer consents, he/she could pay half the benefits to the other parent. If there is no consent, then I presume the carer gets all of the money, just like over here.
Since there is no splitting of benefits, I have now sent off the forms to claim for child benefit and child/working tax credit.
Not sure how things will go, but my daughter chooses to reside with me, most of the time.
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