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can anyone explain this to me please?

BC Welfare Rights
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The Brunswick Centre, Kirklees & Calderdale

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Makes no sense to me the apparent contradiction between 1) and 2). Is this just bad/nonsensical wording?

Client is 60+ and receives HRC of DLA. Wife receives CA for caring for adult daughter.

Edit to add:
Have no dependent children

[ Edited: 19 Jul 2017 at 05:23 pm by BC Welfare Rights ]

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ClairemHodgson
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Solicitor, SC Law, Harrow

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total nonsense, clearly

the perils of standard letters where someone is required to delete whatever doesn’t apply? and gets that wrong? (that’s my charitable thought on it, anyway).

Mark Willis
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Hi BIlly

Most likely written by a computer and sentence automatically included if a tick was placed in box in answer to question 1.13 on the claim form:

This question is only for couples with children.
Is one of you working 16 hours a week or more and the other person is incapacitated, an inpatient in hospital, in prison either on remand or serving a custodial sentence or entitled to Carer’s Allowance? To show who is incapacitated, an inpatient in hospital, in prison either on remand or serving a custodial sentence or entitled to Carer’s Allowance, put ‘X’ in one box only. You Your partner See Notes, page 6.

So, as ever with tax credits, the responsibility for HMRC’s mistake falls back on the claimant…

Mark