{"id":818,"date":"2018-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/why-tax-credit-payments-can-change\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"why-tax-credit-payments-can-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/why-tax-credit-payments-can-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Why tax credit payments can change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are claiming tax credits make sure that you keep an eye on changes that may affect the amount you receive.<\/p>\n<p>Your payments can go up if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>your income goes down by more than &pound;2,500<\/li>\n<li>your benefits stop or go down<\/li>\n<li>you start getting personal independence payment (PIP), Disability Living Allowance (DLA) or other disability benefits for yourself or a child<\/li>\n<li>you have a child<\/li>\n<li>your childcare costs go up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You should report these changes within 1 month to make sure you get everything you&rsquo;re entitled to. Payments can&rsquo;t usually be backdated any further than this.<\/p>\n<p>Your payments can go down or stop if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>your income goes up by more than &pound;2,500 &#8211; report this straight away to reduce the amount you&rsquo;re overpaid<\/li>\n<li>you haven&rsquo;t renewed your claim<\/li>\n<li>your award notice shows you&rsquo;ve been overpaid<\/li>\n<li>you stop getting PIP, DLA or other disability benefits for yourself or a child<\/li>\n<li>your child is now 16, 18 or 19 and you haven&rsquo;t told the Tax Credit Office they&rsquo;re in approved education or training<\/li>\n<li>your childcare costs go down<\/li>\n<li>you or your partner start claiming Universal Credit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are claiming tax credits make sure that you keep an eye on changes that may affect the amount you receive. Your payments can go up if: your income goes down by more than &pound;2,500 your benefits stop or go down you start getting personal independence payment (PIP), Disability Living Allowance (DLA) or other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slacc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}