How to change tax credit mid year?

[FussyElmo]

This can be the issue of pro rataing the fees out over the course of a year

I'm assuming you have agreed to the change in the contract so yes you do owe them the £19 a week as they have overpaid you for the last so many weeks

[ruby]

glad i read this one we do this for 2 of our families but luckly they don't receive tax credit

for the ones that do claim tax credits we just gave the weekly fee and if they are in school one fee for term time and the one fee for school holidays

cathy

[madredann]

I may of felt inclined to not change the contract until September then the 5 weeks that they wanted to reduce their hours for I may of paid them back the difference or carried them over to the new contract x

[Helen79]

I have a notice period of 4 weeks to change hours so I wouldn't have allowed the change until the end of the holidays. Even though you've agreed to averaged hours at the start of the contract, it does seem unfair that for mum to save money, you're going to losing out on money. If you've got a notice period in your contract then I'd definitely enforce it.

Tax credits don't need an average, they will normally just change the amount they pay once the childcare amount has changed. Parents just need to phone up.

I would let mum worry about the tax credits side of things and you concentrate on working out payments with mum. The tax credits has nothing to do with you, if they've overpaid mum then that's for her to pay back not you.

[jadavi]

We have got round it by charging full retainer fee not half which I am in my rights to do.
However I have been warned and will do weekly from now on.
Thanks for the advice x

[madredann]

Fab I am so glad you have sorted it out xx