they have done the sme with me cat, me and OH don't get any child tax credit and we proabably wouldn't get any next year either, we put our esitmate in for OH wages cos he never got his p60 which NTL are a bugger for not sending out and wrong for that, they paid us 300 quid over for it we told them the correct amount and cos it was wrong on their half cos it went down to about 30/40 quid a month we don't get any, but now OH has a better job lot more money i'll don't i'll ever see tax credit again.

It seems that just about everone I speak to have had theirs done wrongly at some point, no wonder they have had such a bollocking about the tax credit system. I will just tell them our earnings for the up coming tax year, as OH is on a set anual salary and leave it at that. No doubt it will change very slightly anyway as he will get a pay review next month anyway. If at some later point they decide they paid out to mch for this year I will just let them alter our payments accordingly.

dont get me started on teh IR

Oh no, common what did they do with you? royally stuffed yours up? Do they actually do anyones right?

I know what the IR did, and they still havent sorted....

theyve not paid me since september!! they basically accused me of benefit fraud, altho me n darren are back 2gether he pays me maintenance n nothin else but they think im screwing them!!

Whilst you haven't said the wrong information you are also not correcting them. I know its a pain in the arse but I would tell them. It is a big miscalculation adn they are going to ask for the money back - why not do it now instead of getting a lot less money when baby is here?

Once the baby is here I will be getting my maternety benefit so I will be a lot better off, plus getting more child benefit, and the tax credit would be going up with having another child under the age of one. So if they just knocked £20 a week off then it would be a lot easier to deal with. But at the moment the only income I have is the child tax credit and child benefit. So to lose it now would really screw me up.

I can see your point but my friend got overpaid - was recieving about £50-60 but it was reduced to £10 and she really struggled. This was a few years ago so they might have changed it