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what a total waste of time.i'm worse off now than when i was when the tax credit first come out.earning alittle extra but have lost £6.00 from my tax credit a month.what a bunch of robbing ********!!!!!!!!!!!!xxxx):

To say nothing of the £2 a month reduction in my income tax from April: an insult! Dwarfed by a £7 a month increase in my national insurance contributions. Thanks, Gordon.

brian it really makes me angry.i get tax credit my husbands tax has gone up.he pays £800 a month.i earn a few extra pennies to pay my way and the goverment dock my tax credit.sorry to say this and all circumstances aren't the same.but your better off on the dole with no savings.it's all paid for and you don't have to worry about paying tax.xxxxxx):

Well the first year i got tax credits i got £47 a MONTH now i get £41 a Month.What am i supposed to do with that amount of money?lol Anna:-))

still waiying on ours to come through! Julia

Last year they sent a friend a large cheque saying it was owed to her........... she rang back and said no it wasn't......... she argued with them for weeks but they insisted......in the end she spent it. Months later they said they had overpaid her and were stopping her payments until it was cleared. She appealed to them, went to her MP, citizens advice anybody she could think of but nobody could help. She just didn't have enough coming in every week to cover her outgoings and was on the verge of having her home repossessed and being taken to court. It just about cracked her up, her husband was working all the overtime he could get to try and make ends meet and she had 2 little children so couldn't work as he was on shifts.............. then woops we made a mistake. No appology, no compensation nothing. Now, because this years credits are calculated on last years earnings and he worked loads of overtime, they have reduced her payments! Talk about catch 22............

i think we should abolish the tax office and work our own tax out by ourselves.we could probebly do a better jobxxxx(:

Can I add a postive point? Time was when tax credits didn't exist... We, as pensioners, with minimal savings, get a small weekly tax credit to bring us up to the minimum wage, for a couple, and I for one am grateful! I did, of course, work 46 years paying into the system so feel fully entitled to any help I can get. Not many in the future will have this level of contributions, if the stories we read in the papers are anything to go by. Lily

star struck the tax credit means nothing to us for the simple fact my husbands tax has been put up.just because he travels 150miles a day to provide for his family to pay the bills and to live.someone that has 4plus children can rack in 500 pounds in tax credit whereas someone like me works a 35 hour week and picks up just 39 pounds.wheres the justice.xxxx(:

Lisa I resent the comment about 4 plus kids... I have four kids and we get tax credit, as hubbys earnings are too low. He has worked always since the day he left school. To imply that families with four plus kids don't deserve it is not fair. Dawn we also can't get school meals as hubby gets £1.81 a week working tax credit... we'd be better off without it as school dinners are £7 a week!!!! hence the reason mine have packed lunches!!!!!!

dawn what i am stating is the lower paid you are and if you have more children you get more tax credit thats a fact.because i am earning more money and also my hubby which may i add travels 150 miles every day so we can have a comfortable life has to pay higher taxes and for me to do a few extra hours a week i have lost money on my tax credit.the worse off you are the more money a family gets.i didn't say that to offend it's a factxxxx(:

dawn can i also state that my husband has worked hard to get where he is today through college and has worked his way up the ranks.all i am saying is that the higher earners are being targeted but the goverment forgets that peopel like my hubby have spent years to be where they are.also my hubby has worked from the age of sixteen alsoxxxxx(:

Lisa (Disley) is your partner living with you? If so, surely he should be working to help out, or is he too ill to work? If he's not living with you, his income will not be taken into account but, if he is the father of your children, you should be getting maintenance from him OR their father...you shouldn't be struggling on just what you earn - are the CSA involved? The lad next door pays a third of his GROSS earnings over as maintenance for two boys, after divorce. Lily