Hurray wife and step-daughter got ILR Today!

[lordna]

hi ,im looking for a little bit of advise from you ,were just about to apply for my wife and stepdaughters ilr ,we too have claimed child benefit ,working tax cred and child tax cred , on the flrm form where it asks ,have you or your partner ever claimed ,any of these benefits ,ie tax creds child tax creds child benefit,what boxes did you tick for the child tax creds ,and working tax creds,as it was both our names we had to put down when claiming both of these benefits,so im a bit warey of what boxes to tick ,do i tick the part regarding who claimed these benefits under, my husband claimed these benefits or do i tick both me and my husband claimed these benefits,please reply soon as were about to send the form away thanks

Unfortunately, i didn't keep a copy of the form and i remember being unsure myself at the time what to tick. However, the CTC and/or WTC claims have to be in both names, i would say tick the boxes to indicate who was the recipient of the benefit. ie if the CTC/WTC is paid into your husbands account then tick husband. I seem to remember thats what i did and put a question mark against my wifes name and added a comment underneath that it was a joint claim (which it must be). I dont think you will have any problems with that. I was the child benefit claimant.

[jamesy]

thanks again for your help and advise ,youve been a great help to us ,keep in touch