Tax credits overpayment from 1996

Millssy25

Hi all,

My partner had a call this evening saying she had a tax credits overpayment from 1996!! Can they legaly claim this back??

If they can is there any advice people can give me to fight it?

NASA_2

Did Tax Credits exist in 1996?

doelani

NASA wrote: »

Did Tax Credits exist in 1996?

Your right ti did not exist then lol

Now for the price who can name the benefit that tax credit replaced? I cannot remember and driving me nuts now :rotfl:

DX2

NASA wrote: »

Did Tax Credits exist in 1996?

October 99 I think.

AnxiousMum

Not as they are now NASA.......we moved here in Dec 2002, and they started in April 2003.......so maybe this debt is under the old system?

DX2

doelani wrote: »

Your right ti did not exist then lol

Now for the price who can name the benefit that tax credit replaced? I cannot remember and driving me nuts now :rotfl:

Working family tax credits or Family credit

What's the prize

DX2

AnxiousMum wrote: »

Not as they are now NASA.......we moved here in Dec 2002, and they started in April 2003.......so maybe this debt is under the old system?

The Working Families Tax Credit is to be introduced
from October 1999. It will replace Family Credit, and
will be more generous. It will be administered by the
Inland Revenue, and paid either directly by them or
(from April 2000) through the wage packet.

doelani

DX2 wrote: »

Working family tax credits or Family credit

What's the prize

Family credit thats it lol

the prize is .......................will get back to you on that one lol

AnxiousMum

From the Times Online:

History of tax credits
The original tax credit system was introduced in 1998 to encourage the unemployed back to work, with a particular focus on single mothers. In April 2003 the system was reformed with the establishment of two forms of tax credit, the working tax credit and the child tax credit.
Since the scheme was relaunched, tax credits have become synonymous with overpayment problems. The Government has announced repeatedly that millions of families would have to pay back the Treasury after receiving too much money in tax credits. It has been attacked for putting low-income families under huge financial and emotional strain.

DX2

AnxiousMum wrote: »

From the Times Online:

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Millssy25

Ok, i wasnt in at the time but i will give them a call later to find out exactly what there on about.

Is there no limit for how long back they can claim?