After
some years now fighting to get my Working Tax Credits reinstated,
I've now received 3 letters in one week from HMRC, all contradicting
each other. One says I've been awarded a 4-figure sum. Another says a
3 figure sum, and another says I told them of a change and my WTC
(stopped in January '16) will now 'be stopped.'
I've
been to Welfare Rights officer TJ, who has been brilliant over the
last few months. It appears that my WTC are on hold, and she's
contacting them to get to the bottom of this.
Getting
back onto WTC looked like a longshot, as Oldham- my hometown- is now
a Universal Credit area, and HMRC is reluctant to award WTC to anyone
here. For a number of reasons, I'm flat-out not eligible for UC.
What
would be ideal, of course, is for an employer to recognise my
potential in writing- possibly in Marketing, PR or copywriting- and
offer me a full time position, with steady training included that
takes into account my short term memory difficulties, and pay me
enough to not be eligible for WTC at all. But, then, I've been
looking for that since I graduated in 2005.
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