Hi CR001, Thanks for a quick reply. I am ok with the tax credit and CHB. But as I mentioned when I claim HB even though my wife wasn't a claimant, the council awarded me the HB and given me ‘ couple allowance + 1 child’ not ‘single +child’. I spoke to them subsequently but they didn’t change it. I di ...

Hi, I and my 2 yr old son both are British citizen. My wife is on dependent visa (FLR-M). She got her initial visa in August 2013 and extended in January 2016 for another 2.5 yr. In 2014, when my son born, I was unemployed and had to claim housing benefit and tax credit for four months. Apart from ...