Child tax credits query

[tigwig]

I work 15 hours a week and after my overpayment from the inland revenue has been sorted (a long story) I will still be entitled to claim tax credits again. My question is does it make a difference working 15 hours rather than 16 because other part time staff say they have to work 16 hours because it effects their tax credits. I do not get any help with childcare just the basic tax credit which I think is the family element? Does anyone know about this?

[Petal~flower]

helpmetoo. what do you mean by circumstance?

by carelessness morelike,

What do you mean by that?

[MissFUBAR]

To claim Working Tax Credit to have to work 16 hours. I had a job on a monthly rota and 2 weeks I worked under 16 hours but for the other I worked over so if balenced itself out and this was ok with the Tax credit office.

[helpmetoo]

petal,

ok a rephrase then... poor life decisions

extremely rarely are we not at least partly the architect of our own situations

except for you presumably