my brother and sister in law both work and have one child they have an yearly

[skinnymin]

income of 31,000 yet receive more tax credits than us i dont work my hubby is self employed and we have two children so why is this ?
we only earn about 15,000 a year

[frogbfound]

well to start you said your hubby is self employed hence he pays twice the taxes they do because they have an employer that pays half those taxes I'm thinking also earned income credit possibly they itemize their taxes. Could be a number of things....not enough info to make a solid determination.

[Rick B]

How do either of your families live on that? I can't imagine having kids with such low income.

[Spartan L]

Do they admit to earning £31k, or do they tell the tax credit people it's a little less than that? I hope that is not the case.