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Inland Revenue and electronic systems
Jan. 23rd, 2003 11:09 amI have just rung the Inland Revenue and asked about Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit. It looks like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bateleur and I will not be eligible from April, because it is based on 2001/2 when I was still being paid (including my sudden transition to maternity leave). However the guy on their helpline reckoned it was worth making a claim in case we got something. Additionally it will adds us to their database and, hopefully, mean that we are automatically mailed for next year when it is based on our 2002/3 earnings which suddenly drop to half (or thereabouts).
We could, of course, fill in the form on-line. However I have been involved in enough government computing projects to have a deep rooted mistrust of anything involving the British government and the internet. After all, anyone who does not regard programming as a specialist skill is not going to have the best website technology. This is similar to the way in which I developed strong ideas about when to have children after working on infant mortality and disability statistics.
Government can be a morbid and cynical field to work in.
bateleur and I will not be eligible from April, because it is based on 2001/2 when I was still being paid (including my sudden transition to maternity leave). However the guy on their helpline reckoned it was worth making a claim in case we got something. Additionally it will adds us to their database and, hopefully, mean that we are automatically mailed for next year when it is based on our 2002/3 earnings which suddenly drop to half (or thereabouts).We could, of course, fill in the form on-line. However I have been involved in enough government computing projects to have a deep rooted mistrust of anything involving the British government and the internet. After all, anyone who does not regard programming as a specialist skill is not going to have the best website technology. This is similar to the way in which I developed strong ideas about when to have children after working on infant mortality and disability statistics.
Government can be a morbid and cynical field to work in.
