Hello
Right to cut an extremely long story short, my brother has been caught up in the great incapacity benefit to esa transfer, he failed the medical, he has just sent in his appeal so is hoping that will be accepted and he will be put on the assessment rate. In his claim for incapacity benefit he was claiming an extra amount for his partner, if his appeal is accepted we understand he will only get the £71 a week assessment rate and nothing extra for his partner.
They are due for the youngest child to start school in September, through another family member she (his partner :) ) has managed to arrange some childcare as she has decided that she is returning to work now instead of September, she is reviving her old self employed business that she wound down a few years ago when youngest child was born.
She should be able to get things moving again within a couple of months hopefully quicker, now they currently receive child tax credit, she will be working full time from day 1 to get things moving as quickly as possible, she will need to claim working tax credit, now at the moment until this appeal is accepted for him they only have child tax credit coming and child benefit, if she rings the tax credit help line and makes a claim for working tax credit what will happen? Will they take the details and process it there and then? Will they stop the claim and make them make a new claim? How long is it taking? They have never had any problems with tax credits and whenever there has been a change of circumstances they have always sorted it there and then on the phone so they are hoping it will be the same with this.
Also what is she best doing regarding earnings, she will need to give them a figure of expected earnings for the next 12 months, problem with this is that for the first 8-12 weeks she will not actually have anything earning wise coming in, she needs to set everything up, find customers then work for them, send invoices wait to be paid bla bla it will be a good 12 weeks in the real world before she sees any of here hard earned cash, if she says she expects to earn say 15k in the first year they will treat her as having that from the beginning, which she will not so her payments will be lower than she should actually be getting.
I know HMRC are clamping down on self employed claims and about time to but in the real world there is not a business anywhere that starts and pays a wage from day 1, not without investment and there is none of that anywhere. Could she declare a nil salary at first and then when she receives here first payments update them then with a more realistic figure? She expects to earn 15-20k in the first year but as said this will only kick in from around 8-12 weeks.
She wants things to be as accurate as possible with tax credits, they have never had any issues or over payments and she really wants to keep it that way.
Any advice appreciate as usual
Thanks in advance
Right to cut an extremely long story short, my brother has been caught up in the great incapacity benefit to esa transfer, he failed the medical, he has just sent in his appeal so is hoping that will be accepted and he will be put on the assessment rate. In his claim for incapacity benefit he was claiming an extra amount for his partner, if his appeal is accepted we understand he will only get the £71 a week assessment rate and nothing extra for his partner.
They are due for the youngest child to start school in September, through another family member she (his partner :) ) has managed to arrange some childcare as she has decided that she is returning to work now instead of September, she is reviving her old self employed business that she wound down a few years ago when youngest child was born.
She should be able to get things moving again within a couple of months hopefully quicker, now they currently receive child tax credit, she will be working full time from day 1 to get things moving as quickly as possible, she will need to claim working tax credit, now at the moment until this appeal is accepted for him they only have child tax credit coming and child benefit, if she rings the tax credit help line and makes a claim for working tax credit what will happen? Will they take the details and process it there and then? Will they stop the claim and make them make a new claim? How long is it taking? They have never had any problems with tax credits and whenever there has been a change of circumstances they have always sorted it there and then on the phone so they are hoping it will be the same with this.
Also what is she best doing regarding earnings, she will need to give them a figure of expected earnings for the next 12 months, problem with this is that for the first 8-12 weeks she will not actually have anything earning wise coming in, she needs to set everything up, find customers then work for them, send invoices wait to be paid bla bla it will be a good 12 weeks in the real world before she sees any of here hard earned cash, if she says she expects to earn say 15k in the first year they will treat her as having that from the beginning, which she will not so her payments will be lower than she should actually be getting.
I know HMRC are clamping down on self employed claims and about time to but in the real world there is not a business anywhere that starts and pays a wage from day 1, not without investment and there is none of that anywhere. Could she declare a nil salary at first and then when she receives here first payments update them then with a more realistic figure? She expects to earn 15-20k in the first year but as said this will only kick in from around 8-12 weeks.
She wants things to be as accurate as possible with tax credits, they have never had any issues or over payments and she really wants to keep it that way.
Any advice appreciate as usual
Thanks in advance