Working Families Tax Credit (Hansard, 25 October 2001)

HC Deb 25 October 2001 vol 373 c376W 376W

§ Mr. Willetts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what action he is taking to help Working Families Tax Credit recipients who have been refused a mortgage because of the reluctance of mortgage providers to count WFTC payments as income. [9814]

§ Ruth Kelly
It is a discretionary matter for individual mortgage providers to decide whether or not to count WFTC as income when considering mortgage applications.