TAX CREDITS – MOVING ON TO UNIVERSAL CREDIT

If you are currently getting tax credits, you can continue to get them unless you make a claim for UC, or you are notified that your tax credits are ending and you need to claim UC by a specified date. [...] • you already get child tax credit you can claim working tax credit; You must be under pension age to claim • you already get working tax credit you UC or have a partner who is under pension can claim child tax credit; age. [...] a renewal claim, but may also apply in other cases); or If you make a claim UC, your tax credits • you are a refugee claiming child tax are automatically terminated from the day you claim UC (even if you are not entitled credit, backdated to the date you to UC) and you will not be allowed to go applied for asylum in the UK, before back to tax credits. [...] You can get help with childcare costs in UC You can only get help with childcare costs before you start work, if you have an offer once you start work, and the work must be of a job that is due to start in the next expected to last at least 4 weeks. [...] This is but claimants with limited capability for work payable if you who work at least 16 hours a qualify for a work allowance, which means week, get a benefit such as PIP/ADP, or were you can earn up to £404 a month (or £673 a getting a benefit such as ESA before starting month if you don’t get a housing element for work, and you have a disability which puts you rent), before your UC is reduced.