Since my husband is uk pensioner we get child tax credits and child benefit. free health and prescriptions for all the family, as long as we dont work.

Are you resident in Spain or the UK?

resident Spain for last 15 years. We were late starters in having kids!

If you live in Spain you should be paying tax in Spain so how can you get UK tax credits?

Sounds like a SS fraudster

Cant wait for the answer

according to UKinSpain if you are getting State Pension you are still entitled to child benefit while living in Spain

it doesn't say anything about tax credits

yes, I've heard this. Its something about when you receive a state pension, it also pays the persons NI contributions, thereby enabling the person to claim healthcare and one or two other benefits (including child allowance) as if s/he was working in the UK

Jo xxx

I checked it out and it appears you can get child tax credits if you are a UK state pensioner.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/st...-out-of-UK.htm

It raises the interesting point that they presumably are taxable in Spain if your total income is above the Spanish tax threshold which is usually a lot lower than the UK.

so if John Humphreys should give up on The Today Programme and retire to Spain he will be able to get CB

Not for a 66 yr old pensioner with no earnings in Spain surely. Even when UK manages to get it up to £10000 I think Spain tops it but I suppose that depends on the exchange rate.

So will Des O connor.................

And David Jason will have a nice little earner too...

My point was that UK tax credits would (in theory) be taxed in Spain as part of your income. In the UK I don't believe they are taxable as such.

Unless they are in the same class as Public Sector Pensions, which remain taxable in the UK.

I receive Incapacity Benefit and also Child Benefit and Child Tax Credits.

is that Totally

or after the usual tax free allowances granted by HMRC ??