I have to repy tax credits, what can i do

dmg24

fuggles wrote: »

Can I sue them maybe ? get a lawyer involved

I dont have the money they are asking for, they want 120 pounds a month of a total of around 1500 pounds

what can i do

They say they accidently overpayed me, what a disaster !

So you can afford a solicitor, but not the repayments?

Oldernotwiser

dmg24 wrote: »

So you can afford a solicitor, but not the repayments?

Why do I get the feeling that we'd be paying this as well, through legal aid?

compoff

There are very few incidents where someone is accidentally overpaid. People are normally overpaid because they do not check their details correctly.

fuggles_2

gizmo111 wrote: »

Well if they were paying you as a single man, then surely they were underpaying you??????????

I never knew that I was claiming as a single man, when In fact i was married.

On their databse they had me as a single man, but I was a married man for 20 years, so its their fault. This only happened because I accidently rang them after i was curious as to why I was claiming as a single man., in around 2007 .

Oldernotwiser

fuggles wrote: »

This only happened because I accidently rang them after i was curious as to why I was claiming as a single man., in around 2007 .

How can you telephone someone "accidently"?

KILL_BILL

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

How can you telephone someone "accidently"?

exactly

did his fingers accidently pick up the phone and slip onto the numbers to dial the benefits office :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Sponge

How on earth does the above post deserve thanks? The system is useless.

I have no idea of all the details behind the OPs situation, as such I do not judge or ridicule. All I can say is mistakes are made and one should always seek remedy.

I expect to be fighting the Tax Credits 'people' shortly, due to a mistake on their part. I hope that if I come here for advice I actually get some and not simply abuse, which seems to be par for the course nowadays.

Zara33

Sponge wrote: »

How on earth does the above post deserve thanks? The system is useless.

I have no idea of all the details behind the OPs situation, as such I do not judge or ridicule. All I can say is mistakes are made and one should always seek remedy.

I expect to be fighting the Tax Credits 'people' shortly, due to a mistake on their part. I hope that if I come here for advice I actually get some and not simply abuse, which seems to be par for the course nowadays.

The OP has a duty to read the award letters that come through the post, if he couldn't be bothered to read the award and see there was a mistake whether it be the op's fault or the TCO, then what can be done. The TCO can only go on the info that the customer has given them.

LilacPixie

When I applied for tax credits I had to completea form with my details my husbands details and our new born babies details. How can you accidently forget to include your wife of 20 years and your three kids??

if someone genuinly has an overpayment due to a staff error then surely there must be an appeals process?? I doubt missing a wife and 3 kids off the application form is staff error tho.

amanda27_2

The same thing happened to me in 2005 when the claim form came it had my earnings and my husbands in the middle pages but on the back it had me as a single parent i phoned them 7 times to put this right and got the same answer every time the computor says its right well after 3 months of overpaying me i got a letter saying they had made the mistake but were now stopping all payments until it was payed back in 2008 i had had enough phoned them got and appeal form sent to me sent of copies of all the paper work they had sent me and the letter saying it was there fault after 3 months of waiting i had a letter saying ythey had looked into it and it was there fault refunded the money i had payed back and wrote of the rest so it does happen phone them and ask for an appeal form