tax credit overpayments new report published

Kevin_AdviceNI · 7 July 2005 at 11:11AM

Hi all, We are delighted to announce that we have completed our report on the eConsultation relating to the tax credit overpayment issue. As you may remember adviceNI ran an eCon in February on this issue.

This report is accessible via our website https://www.adviceni.net from Thursday 7th July. Thank you for your support in highlighting the issue,

Please let us know what you think of it,

Best regards,

Kevin Higgins (co-moderator).

parley · 26 July 2005 at 11:24PM

Thanks I'll read that tomorrow. I first got a bill for £1,778 and then after I rang, they said they missed out my son and I shouldn't owe any money. The time they are talking about is when I was with my ex and we had it in joint names. A couple of months later I get a bill for nearly £700. Well I know my ex isn't going to pay his share so I'm going to be stuck the bill. It just doesn't seem fair as I've told them all the changes as it happened and then years later a big bill on the doorstep.

ReportInvestor · 4 August 2005 at 3:08PM

Treasury confirms that it will seek to recoup the tax credit overpayments of nearly £2 billion

imasmartie · 28 September 2005 at 1:03PM

yes im the same they sent me a bill 1,500 I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO i only earn 9,500 a year, what a joke. in fact wish i had never recived them.
smartie

nkeggerton · 29 September 2005 at 11:49AM

we got overpayed by a £1000 and we are paying it back at £15 a month. it will be paid off in 2010 :eek:

nkeggerton · 30 September 2005 at 11:03AM

i went to my local enquiry office yesterday as we had to put in a new claim a few months ago and it still hasnt been completed. anyway we got there just expecting to get it pushed forward and was told that we could have been getting payments all along.

System · 1 October 2005 at 12:53PM

Does anyone know if interest is going to be charged on overpayments?

I have offered to pay back £50 a month for the next year to get my £300 bill paid off, but maybe I could be offering to pay less if there's not interest going to be added on? Not sure if I just want to pay it back and get it over with or not.

yummymummy_2 · 4 October 2005 at 5:18PM

I doubt they can just demand you pay it all back at once. To be honest I am not surprised at how this !!!! up has come to light - remember the huge mess the system was in a couple of years ago when nobody could get through to the help line?

AP · 8 October 2005 at 8:21PM

nkeggerton wrote:

we got overpayed by a £1000 and we are paying it back at £15 a month. it will be paid off in 2010 :eek:

We got overpaid by £1924.06 and they are going to take it back by reducing the weekly payment by £3.03 from 11/04/06, this is in addition to the fact that we will not be getting any more money until then. My calculation is that this is going take 12 years and 3 months for the full amount to be repaid.

If you look at it this way - an interest-free loan for £1924.06 over 12 years and 3 months at 0% APR from Gordon Brown, it can't be that bad, can it? In the meantime, I am putting this money into a mini cash ISA to earn some tax-free interest. Sometimes, you just have to look at the funny side of this whole saga!

aroma44 · 8 October 2005 at 9:56PM

We have been over paid the first bill is £1700 and then another, not instead of but as well as £1100!!! We have phoned each time there were changes in circumstance (made redundant and job changes etc) but still they mess up. Have been advised to fill in dispute form but what's the chance of that doing any good , i'm not holding my breath! :mad:

yummymummy_2 · 11 October 2005 at 11:37PM

Are these overpayments supposed to have been from years ago?

If so I cannot help wondering how it is that they can correctly figure out after all this time that so many people have been overpaid X amount when they were incapable of correctly assessing what the award should have been in the first place?

The whole thing is a mess which I believe was caused by the initial teething problems. It is so unfair that they have caused so many people this worry -- as if we don't have enough other things to worry about!

tax credit overpayments new report published

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