HMRC Advisers take on Tax Credit's eligibility

[bobo77]

Hi everyone,

I called HMRC this morning and spoke to an adviser about claiming Tax Credits as I have just received my ILR (my wife still on FLR though).

From the little I could understand from our discussion (he has a beautiful Irish accent that I couldn't really follow very well and I got tired of saying 'can you repeat that please'), he seems to be implying that because my wife has immigration restrictions (no recourse to public funds) that our application for tax benefit will not be straight forward and will be delayed, I can even swear that he said we'll probably not get it.

I told him that from what I understood about Tax Credits, as long as the main applicant has no such restrictions that s/he could claim with a partner, he said that was before that the law changed recently.

He offered to send me the claim form anyway but warned that the application will be delayed and that even if we do get anything it probably wont be the full value.

Can anyone corroborate this please?

Thanks in anticipation.

[herts]

bobo77, I just did a check on tax credits by putting your wife's immigration status as subject to immigration control, and you as main applicant as no immigration issues. The result shows you getting tax credits. Don't know why the Irish guy advised you can't get Tax credits...

[bobo77]

Thanks herts

bobo77, I just did a check on tax credits by putting your wife's immigration status as subject to immigration control, and you as main applicant as no immigration issues. The result shows you getting tax credits. Don't know why the Irish guy advised you can't get Tax credits...