Tax Credits

Why is it that when trying to claim child tax credits they need you to ring up and tell them how much you earned last year? Bloody Palaver, when with the click of a button I am sure they know how much I earned from details issued in another office round the corner.  If they can't, why not? Is it not the tax office that issue the P60 and P45 forms in the first place

I am sure if I give them false information they will be back to tell me pretty quick smart along with a some sort of penalty for doing so.

Or is it just a way of not paying out to a number of people who can't be bothered or don't know they are entitled to Tax credits.


Mmmmmm.

School holiday (or is it?)

As a parent, we are constantly reminded that you should not take your child out of school for holidays. You are neglecting their education, disrupting the teachers schedule etc. As a parent we are probably in the minority when it comes to keeping to the rules. This ultimately costs more money to go away but we feel our son's education is worth it. All that said I find it extremely frustrating that having stuck to the rules and paid extra money for the privilege my son gets a school project to do whilst he is supposedly having a week off from school. Hardly a holiday is it? We have spent a day trying to do a project when we get home trying to fit in all those other things that need doing after a holiday.  Of course all the children whose parents took them out of school to go on holiday have plenty of time to do the project


Why can't the schools individually spread their half terms and summer breaks to different times so that the holiday companies can't manipulate the prices