Muhammad jabbar 1993 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 2:22 pm
JB007 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:37 am
Does that mean they have to keep the person who gets the visa?
It sounds like his wife has been claiming low income benefits for quite some time and is likely on the old benefits, Child Tax Credit, likely Working Tax Credit as she works two evenings a week and is perhaps trying to work 16 hours a week to get the WTC benefit too? And I assume, the benefits Housing Benefit for her rent and Council Tax Benefit/Reduction? Income Support for a single parent too?
All of those low income welfare benefits are replaced by Universal Credit and the OP being in the UK will move his wife to Universal Credit, with no transitional protection (from lower benefits amount being paid). Universal Credit also has the 2 child limit.
Sir
My wife was earning £6888.96 annual from part time job and she receive £4000.44 per year from her ex-husband for child maintenance and child benefit £48.10 per week that is £2315.64 per year. So total calculation was £13205.4 annually.
I'm not sure she can use the money paid by her first husband for his children, to show she can support you?
Her only earning £6,888.96pa seems to look like she is working the minimum hours to be able to also claim the welfare payment Working Tax Credit (16 hours a week), in addition to the other benefits she is claiming. The UK's miunimum wage for April 19 to March 20 was £8.21 an hour. There is also a working 30hours a week element for Working Tax Credit, that means she could have more money. Both of these allow her to claim for childcare costs (for all three children) through that Working Tax Credit benefit.
She wil also be claiming Child Tax Credit for two of her children, her and her ex would have known that they could not claim benefits for more than two children anymore, when they had their 3rd child.
If she is renting, she will also be claiming other benefits; Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit/Council Tax Reduction.
Child Benefit does not have a 2 child limit.
Muhammad jabbar 1993 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 2:49 pm
their father don't have any role in their lifes but just to pay as it's legal right of kids and in UK a father have to pay he want or even don't want. We have proof where he denied to even pay in past.
The UK work out the mimmum he must pay but this payment does not reduce the amount of all the other benefits she is claiming. The fact that he is paying so little, seems to show that he is not working much/not earning much.
This is why I think she is on the old benefits that are getting replaced by Universal Credit, as it looks like the parents have been claiming low income benefits for a long time. Under that short lived Tax Credit benefits, parents only has to work 24 hours a week between them. When she became a single mother, she only had to work 16 hours a week to get additonal benefit money through anothjer benefit called Working Tax Credit.
Unless she decides to work and use her WTC claim to help pay for a childminder, I don't see how she can sponsor you. She is heavily reliant on the UK's welfare state and not working much. If you had savings, you could use your savings to reduce the amount she must earn to sponsor you.
However, under the welfare reforms, the short lived Tax Credit benefit are two of the low income benefits that are ending and beoing replaced by a new benefit called Universal Credit. The UK is returning to what UK benftits were invented for, a short term help for those in dire need. Universal Credit will end parents living on benefits as a lifestyle choice and both parents will be required to work and the UC amount being paid is less than the Tax Credit benefit.
I'm sure your wife will be aware of the welfare reforms and at that at some point her benefits will end and she will have to claim under the new system. By the time her youngest chold is age 5, she will have to earn 25 hours a week an the national minumum wage that year. Perhaps you could use this to persuade her to work to be able to sponsor you.
Ironically, if you get a visa to the UK, that will trigger her benefit move over to Universal Credit with no transitional protection (no protection form a drop in benefit money). And under Universal Credit, unlike the Working Tax Credit benefit UC replaces, she can't claim extra benefit money for you.