Migrants wrongly get tax credits....

billie19

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5074124.stm

I wonder how many of these people are made to pay back the money....


It stinks that people are having to suffer hardship - because they have been overpaid credits in the past.
Whilst people who are not legal British citizens can just come to our Country and milk the welfare system for everything going....


Billie
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Contains_Mild_Peril

According to the figures in that article, the erroneous payments to migrants would amount to less than £3 million, which is still a lot of money, but in the context of the whole huge mess that is the tax credits system, it's neither surprising nor a substantial proportion of their total !!!!-ups.

chugalug

And don't forget, when tax credits first came out there was a lot of confusion about whether or not they were considered as 'public funds'. They arent administered by the benefit system. They used to be a 'credit' for working people. Child benefit was the same - it wasn't a 'public fund' that immigrants would be excluded from claiming. Immigrants are still allowed to claim CB it's only asylum seekers that are not allowed to work or claim benefits. Lets not have a thread that degenerates into asylum seeker bashing again - there is a distinction to be made!

grade15

I feel much better, with all that tax that i'm paying!!..

ahrimaniac

'Whilst people who are not legal British citizens can just come to our Country and milk the welfare system for everything going....'

Nowhere in the article does it remotely say this is the case - they were wrongly given them - it's surely up to the benefits office to be a bit more careful?

grade15

WHY can't they wrongly give me all my tax back or just delete my account, so I do not have to pay tax forever! wishful thinking..but worth a try..hee!!! hee!!
look on the bright side..everyone makes mistakes.. as long as no one was killed..It can be rectified

CIS

The majority of those people will havw applied for Tax Credits in good failth, like any other benefits, its up to the HMRC to assess eligibility and not pay out if people aren't entitled.

The article itself says that certain eligibility checks weren't being done, so its hardly the claimants fault.

billie19

"Mr Laws claimed the payments might bring the total fraud and error costs for the tax credit system to more than half a billion pounds a year".

Hmmm...I wonder who foots the bill for this then ??
The whole system is a joke....

How many other Countries have such a charitable reputation as ours ?

lewt

none billie. its funny how some brit born folk get none and yet again some1 from elsewhere who aint paid any tax gets the lot. it would be a joke if it was'nt so sad. i wanna leave uk.

CIS

Its only a perception that 'foreigner migrants' dont to pay in to the tax system, migrants who come usually do so to work and are often much better qualifies and experienced than the British people who complain (how many Indian born doctors prop up the NHS ?)

People need to seperate the migrant workers from the asylum seekers, who in real terms dont actually qualify for most benefits, those that they do get are reduced, and they aren't allowed to work even if they wanted to.

And remember that there are just as many people who are British born who do scam the system, are they jealous ???

ahrimaniac

The argument that truly tickles me about the whole asylum debate - 'they're taking all our jobs'

Sorry, but, the jobs are there for British-born people. Just for a lot of people, it's easier to sit in your armchair and say you can't get a job because those asylum seekers take them all - when it reality, it's the fact you can't get off your bum and seek employment.

Isn't it true, also, that immigration actually provided more money for the economy than was spent on it last year?