specialist team for tax credits renewal (merged)

selina1987

its nothing to worry about guys honest i thought it was but its aint if you get one of the letters just ring up there number and do ur declaration ring back 48hrs later and it will all be done!!! nothing to worry about!! make sure you ring the number on the letter not the helpline though x

minxtress

I noticed this thread when it first started and watched with interest and lo and behold I got the letter to renew by the different number too, but then reading on it just seemed to be a new pilot scheme for a random set of people to ring this number.
Now reading this thread today after not reading for a few days it seems that people who have rang the number are infact being investigated in some sort of way...ie child care, p60's etc.
I havent rang it yet as havent had time to fill in my tax return and get my exact figurers, but wonder where Il stand as I have no proff of child care in form of receipts etc, and as Im self employed I dont have a P60. I will be worrying myself to death again now after just de-stressing that it was infact nothing to worry about!!!
Why do they have to intefere in things all the bleedin time!

Witter

selina1987 wrote: »

its nothing to worry about guys honest i thought it was but its aint if you get one of the letters just ring up there number and do ur declaration ring back 48hrs later and it will all be done!!! nothing to worry about!! make sure you ring the number on the letter not the helpline though x

We had extra payments after we renewed and new payments set up for this year then we got another specialist team letter asking us to send all this proof of income and childcare

selina1987

what number did u renew with first??

l33na

minxtress wrote: »

I noticed this thread when it first started and watched with interest and lo and behold I got the letter to renew by the different number too, but then reading on it just seemed to be a new pilot scheme for a random set of people to ring this number.
Now reading this thread today after not reading for a few days it seems that people who have rang the number are infact being investigated in some sort of way...ie child care, p60's etc.
I havent rang it yet as havent had time to fill in my tax return and get my exact figurers, but wonder where Il stand as I have no proff of child care in form of receipts etc, and as Im self employed I dont have a P60. I will be worrying myself to death again now after just de-stressing that it was infact nothing to worry about!!!
Why do they have to intefere in things all the bleedin time!

Being a newbie I too noticed this thread when it only had a few replies.
Am now worried too as DH is self employed and works less that 24hrs a week...we have a child that gets dla at the higher rate and now I am trying to justify the letter(not that we have anything to hide but just the idea of being singled out) as to check on the dla as we have never sent anything in to them -just remember phoning two yrs ago telling them we now get dla, was asked at what rate and that is it.
COuld this be it? as I am the one that deals with all this and really cannot have this money stopping as dh cannot work anymore than he does.

Pinkpigg

Witter wrote: »

I dont have my p60 yet and dont tend to keep wage slips, i also dnt hav a contract with childcare provider (wel not that i knw of) and i dnt keep receipts as i was never asked to. I really dont knw what i'm goin to do because if they stop my payments in june i wnt b able to go to work. I thought we had to renew by 31st july not may or june and all this specialist team helping us what a load of crap. We should all complain to head office, i feel like a criminal the way we are being treated

P60's are due this month sometime. As for Child care - can you not give the tax credits the details and ask them to verify how much you pay etc.?? I don't have a contract that I am aware of either, was only ever asked to provide Ofsted registration number when I began claiming child care element of tax credits. Roll on September when I will no longer need the child care side of it.

Pinkpigg

Witter wrote: »

We had extra payments after we renewed and new payments set up for this year then we got another specialist team letter asking us to send all this proof of income and childcare

This is exactly what happened to me.

minxtress

so has everybody who renewed through this extra line been asked to provide this proof or just the odd handful?

Witter

selina1987 wrote: »

what number did u renew with first??

I rang normal helpline first they was un able to process my renewal due to specialist letter so i rang and renewed through specialist team and then got new payments and an extra payment

Witter

Pinkpigg wrote: »

P60's are due this month sometime. As for Child care - can you not give the tax credits the details and ask them to verify how much you pay etc.?? I don't have a contract that I am aware of either, was only ever asked to provide Ofsted registration number when I began claiming child care element of tax credits. Roll on September when I will no longer need the child care side of it.

I have till 2nd june to send all the requested info and it says i have to send p60 09/10 wage slips 09/10 childcare contract and childcare receipts and dont send photocopys. They could have gave us a little longer to send it all as i now have to wait for p60 dnt have many wage slips and wait for a reply off my childcare providers head office for copys of receipts. So its sit and worry once again. All this just to renew. I thought that they would check with my employer and childcare provider if they thought something was wrong. It would b easier for us if they did