Tax Credits - temporary periods of absence from UK

Tax Credits - temporary periods of absence from UK

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An individual tax credit claimant travels abroad for 7 weeks, which is normally disregarded as being a temporary absence (of less than 8 weeks).

Said indiividual returns to the UK for a few weeks and then goes abroad for another 7 weeks which, in isolation of the other trip, would also qualify as a temporary period of absence.

Is there a minimum length of the intervening period in the UK below which the tax credit office might be entitled to consider both overseas trips to be a single composite period in excess of 8 weeks (or even 12 weeks if relevant) and thereby disqualifying the claim?

With kind regards

Clint Westwood

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By Paul Soper
27th Sep 2013 09:29

Interesting

I have a friend with a pattern somewhat like this, spends quite a bit of the year in Portugal (complains about the heat) and the winter in Buxton (complains about the cold) - I think he's got it the wrong way round but still - when he tried, unsuccessfully, to claim pension credit the officer who visited him noted the removal boxes he had filled in preparation for going back to Portugal and refused the claim as he no intention of permanently residing in the UK...

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