Child tax and working tax really narks me!?

I LIVE WITH MY 4YR OLD SON AND PARTNER WHO MOVED IN LAST SEPTEMBER, I WORK PART TIME,HE WORKS FULL TIME AND AS OUR INCOME IS 2 HNIGH WE DONT QUALIFY 4 WORKING TAX CREDIT,WHOWEVER WE GET 拢10.50 A WEEK CHILD TAX,WHICH WE WILL LOSE IN APRIL WEN NEW TAX YEAR STARTS. I AM 5MONTH PREGNANT AGAIN AND I ASKED FOR AN ESTIMATION FROM THE TAX OFFICE TO SEE IF WE WILL QUALIFY 4 TAX CREDITS WEN I HAVE HAD THE BABY,AS MY ELDEST WILL BE IN FULL TIME SCHOOL BY THEN,I WAS TOLD THAT BCOZ OF MY PARTNERS INCOME WE WOULD GET A TINY BIT CHILD TAX AND STILL NO HELP WITH CHILDCARE! I CANT AFFORD TO QUIT WORK AND LIVE ON MY PARTNERS WAGE,PAY FULL RENT,COUNCIL TAX,SCHOOL MEALS,BILLS AND PETROL FOR MY PARTNERS CAR,LET ALONE NAPPIES AND MILK FOR THE NEWBORN (AS WE DONT QUALIFY 4 MILK TOKENS EITHR) WE MOTHERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO WORK YET WE GET NO EXTRA HELP,ITS RIDICOULOUS!!!!!!!!!! ANY1 ELSE IN SAME BOAT??????

we found out we were better off only one of us working, with one of us working we get quite a good amount of both working tax credit and child tax credit, saves any child care costs and we manage quite well. Unfortunately the goverment doesnt pay you to both work with children, they say they do but when we looked into it we wuld have been 60 pound worse off a week if we were both to work than we are now!
there is an online calculator if you follow links on the tax credit sites, work out whats best for you and if you giving up work is better off then thats the answer...... tho i know its terribly boring being a stay at home mum its needed in some cases to be able to afford to live..... as for ppl saying if u cant afford kids dont have them!!! i think it's shallow and coming from people without kids or that are on great wages!!!! every woman has a natural instinct to bear children and i believe it everyones right to have them as long as one parent is working... i know we rather the taxes my partner pays is paid back to us instead of going on dodgy families that dont support their own kids at all and of course all these immigrants that live off us..........

maybe its time for you to quit having babies if you cant afford it

YOU GET EXTRA CHILD TAX CREDS FOR HAVING A CHILD UNDER 1 YEAR OLD,MAKE THE CLAIM IN YOUR NAME I HEARD OF SOME ONE EARNING 29 GRAND A YEAR GETTING CHILD/WORKING TAX CREDS.YOU SHOULD GET MORE WHEN YOU HAVE 2 KIDS.

Im a single mum who pays 40% tax and im entitled to zilch.Ive just come to accept its one of those crappy things.

The year my third was born I was no longer working and my husband earned approx 19,000. We got child tax credit which then reduced after she turned one. But you should get child tax credit at least until your children turn 16 unless between you you earn over about 30,000. Find out if you didnt work and only had one income how much would you get then - you maybe surprised.