Migrants wrongly get tax credits....

Contains_Mild_Peril

ahrimaniac wrote:

'If it's so bleak - why bypass other countries to get here..??????'

Lesser of the evils - might be even worse in other countries?

And that, imho, is what needs to be addressed. We should probably take this conversation to the Money Savers Arms really, since it has little to do with the original topic of this thread, but here's my tuppenceworth anyway. It's a tabloid-generated myth that Britain gets more than its fair share of asylum seekers. However, if there are cases (and some have been alleged) where refugees have to come here from other EU countries because they literally face a choice of starvation or turning to crime in the country where they first tried to claim asylum, that does not mean that Britain is too soft. We need a Europe-wide agreement on minimum standards for dealing with asylum seekers.
As for immigrants being overpaid tax credits or paid credits when they were not entitled to any, I assume those who still reside in the UK will have the money reclaimed from them, just like the rest of us, while those who have returned to their countries of origin most likely will not. This will probably mean that ordinary hardworking legal immigrants who, as far as they knew, did everything correctly, will be among those to suffer because of the Government's incompetence. Welcome to the UK, people.

pollyskettle

Would be nice if hmcr paid me the working tax credits I'm owed - they agreed 6 months ago that they had underpaid me by £1072, but they are yet to pay it as they are a 'bit behind' (this was the last answer I was given by them).

If I had underpaid tax or been overpaid credits, I bet they wouldn't take this long to claim the money back from me