驰辞耻鈥檒濒 get a guide with your award review letter to help you end your tax credits award. Read it with your award review letter to confirm your personal details. Your award review will ask you to confirm: if you claim tax credits by yourself or with a partner where you live if you have a disability 驰辞耻鈥檒濒 also have to confirm: any children (under 16 years old) that you鈥檙e responsible for any children between 16 and 20 years old in full-time education or approved training (up to NVQ level 3 ) if any children get benefits, for example Disability Living Allowance or Personal Independence Payment any children that were certified blind within 28 weeks of your claim (or stopped being certified blind) any childcare costs you have 驰辞耻鈥檒濒 also have to confirm your income from: employment and any benefits self-employment

If you're employed or on benefits

驰辞耻鈥檒濒 have to confirm your income if you鈥檙e paid your wages or salary through PAYE or if you get your income from benefits. You only have to confirm your income for your 鈥榓ward period鈥� - this is usually from 6 April (in the current tax year) to the time you stop claiming tax credits. 驰辞耻鈥檒濒 need to check that: your income for your award period is correct any changes made to your tax credits are correct This is different from your tax credits renewal letter. 驰辞耻鈥檒濒 get a guide with your award review to help you confirm your income. Read it with your award review letter. Your income 驰辞耻鈥檒濒 have to confirm your total income. This includes: income from employment, including if you could not work but were still getting paid (鈥榦n furlough鈥�) income from your pensions, including the State Pension income from self-employment any other income (including any rental or savings income) some taxable benefits Deductions You can deduct any of the following you made during your award period: payments to a registered personal pension scheme or annuity donations to charity where Gift Aid was applied Once you鈥檝e worked out your income you need to check the amount against your award review letter .

If you鈥檙e self-employed

You need to work out your income from being self-employed for your 鈥榓ward period鈥� - this is usually from 6 April (in the current tax year) to the time you stop getting tax credits. This is different from your tax credits renewal letter. 驰辞耻鈥檒濒 get a guide with your award review to help you work out your income. Read it with your award review letter. You also need to include details of earnings from any other employment and other income in your 鈥榓ward declaration鈥� (the information you send to HMRC to confirm your income), for example pensions or taxable benefits. The tax year runs from 6 April to 5 April the following year. Working out your income You may be able to use a part-year profit calculator to work out your income for your award period. You can also use HMRC 鈥檚 working sheet to work out your daily rate and multiply it by the number of days in your tax credits award period. You need to know: the dates for the accounting period which ends in the tax year you start claiming Universal Credit - this is usually 6 April to 5 April the following year if you鈥檙e self-employed your actual or estimated profit for the accounting period - HMRC may ask how you worked out your estimated profits the number of days in your accounting period - this is usually 365, but it may be different if you鈥檝e recently started or stopped being self-employed, you changed your accounting dates or it鈥檚 a leap year If you do not have a full year鈥檚 accounts You may be able to use a part-year profit calculator to work out your income for your award period. You can also use HMRC 鈥檚 working sheet to work out your daily rate and multiply it by the number of days in your tax credits award period. Example You claim Universal Credit on 1 December 2015. You need to work out your taxable profit for the period 6 April 2015 to 30 November 2015 (your 鈥榓ward period鈥�). Your accounting period runs from 6 April 2015 to 5 April 2016 (the same as the tax year) which is 366 days. You work out your estimated taxable profit for your accounting period to be 拢22,000. Your daily rate is 拢60.10 (拢22,000 divided by 366 days). The number of days in your award period is 239 days. Your taxable profit for your award period is 拢14,363 (239 days multiplied by 拢60.10). If you have more than one business, you need to work out the taxable profit this way for each one. Put the total in your 鈥榓ward declaration鈥�. Other income You need to include details of other income you鈥檝e received while you were getting tax credits in this tax year, including: interest on savings a pension or annuity grants from the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme - check how much you were paid if you made a claim Take the total amount before tax and deduct 拢300. If this leaves you with a minus figure, enter 鈥�0鈥�. Do not include: maintenance payments student grants or loans Deductions You can deduct any of the following you made during your award period: payments to a registered personal pension scheme or annuity donations to charity where Gift Aid was applied If you made a loss, or expect to make one, you can: enter 鈥�0鈥� as your self-employed income in your 鈥榓ward declaration鈥� deduct it from any other income you (or your partner) have Once you鈥檝e worked out your income you need to report your income to HMRC on your 鈥榓ward declaration鈥� .

Changes to your personal details or income

驰辞耻鈥檒濒 have to confirm any changes when you stop getting tax credits - if you have not already reported them. 驰辞耻鈥檒濒 have to pay back any tax credits overpayments if HMRC finds out that the information on the award review was incorrect or incomplete.

If your details are incorrect you鈥檒l have to phone HM Revenue and Customs ( HMRC ) within 30 days. HMRC will correct your details and tell you what happens next. If you need to report your self-employed income, you鈥檒l need to send your 鈥榓ward declaration鈥� to HMRC . You will not have to do anything else if the details on your award review are correct or you if do not have to report any employed or self-employed income. There can be a gap between when you stop getting tax credits and when your Universal Credits payments start. You may be able to get an advance on your first Universal Credit payment if: you鈥檝e recently been receiving another benefit you鈥檙e in urgent financial need Check with your work coach if this applies to you. If you鈥檙e getting income from self-employment You need to report your earnings every month when you get Universal Credit . 驰辞耻鈥檒濒 be sent a 鈥榮tatement of earnings鈥� form to do this. If you鈥檙e claiming any other benefits Universal Credit will replace: income-based Jobseeker鈥檚 Allowance Housing Benefit income-related Employment and Support Allowance Income Support Once you鈥檝e claimed Universal Credit, these benefits will stop and you鈥檒l start getting Universal Credit instead. 驰辞耻鈥檒濒 continue to get any other benefits.

End your tax credits: Overview

End your tax credits

Overview

Universal Credit will replace tax credits, Housing Benefit and some other benefits. You cannot claim Universal Credit and these other benefits at the same time.

Your tax credits award will end if:

you or your partner make a claim for Universal Credit (even if the claim is not approved)
you move in with a partner who has made a claim for Universal Credit

After your tax credits stop, you cannot claim tax credits again.

Once you鈥檝e applied for Universal Credit, you鈥檒l get a letter from HMRC (called your 鈥榓ward review鈥�) to end your tax credit award. This is different to your normal tax credits renewal letter.

驰辞耻鈥檒濒 need to check and confirm your personal details and income. How you work out your income will depend if you鈥檙e:

Tax credit overpayments

Your award review letter may tell you that you need to pay back any tax credits overpayments when you end your tax credits.

You can also get a letter at a later date telling you that you need to repay an overpayment if:

you had to make an 鈥榓ward declaration鈥�, for example if you鈥檙e self-employed
you had to report any changes from your award review

驰辞耻鈥檒濒 be told when repayments start to come out of your Universal Credit.

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