Gow can i have this overpayment?

alwaysskint96

A few weeks ago i moved in with my partner and phoned the TC helpline the same day to inform them

Now i have a letter saying I have been overpaid by £200.

How can this happen when i informed them immediately

MrsManda

I presume it takes a while to recalculate your entitlement and they continue paying you at your usual rate until the recaluation is made so that you don't end up with weeks without any payment.

Do you have a breakdown of the overpayment?

Some links which may be useful to you:

Repaying Overpaid Tax Credits:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/things-go-wrong/overpayments/repaying.htm

Disputing Overpayment
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/things-go-wrong/overpayments/dispute.htm

alwaysskint96

Nope got no more payments once I told them and only just received form for joint claim

MrsManda

alwaysskint96 wrote: »

Nope got no more payments once I told them and only just received form for joint claim

When was your last payment? How often/how much are you paid?

I'd ask for a breakdown of how they've calculated that you've been overpaid £200.

DanE2010

MrsManda wrote: »

I presume it takes a while to recalculate your entitlement and they continue paying you at your usual rate until the recaluation is made so that you don't end up with weeks without any payment.

Do you have a breakdown of the overpayment?

Some links which may be useful to you:

Repaying Overpaid Tax Credits:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/things-go-wrong/overpayments/repaying.htm

Disputing Overpayment
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/things-go-wrong/overpayments/dispute.htm

Nope her single clainm would of completey stopped and she wouldnt recieved anymore payments until she put in a new joint claim. What may of happend is that your called say on the wednesday to say your partner had moved in and the payment you had due for the next day had already of been issued so there would be no way of recalling the payment therefore resulting in the overpayment.

MrsManda

DanE2010 wrote: »

What may of happend is that your called say on the wednesday to say your partner had moved in and the payment you had due for the next day had already of been issued so there would be no way of recalling the payment therefore resulting in the overpayment.

The OP said she'd not received a payment since she contacted TC

DanE2010

many claiments think they get there payments on a certain day but the actual due date is a day or two after, it may be that the payment showed in her bank before she rang them, its a common occurance.

alwaysskint96

but the overpayment is nearly double my TC normal payment.

Are TC psid in advance then?

Had payment on a Thursday, phoned them on the following Mon and claim stopped. No payments afterwards

DanE2010

then thats maybe not the reason for the OP, you will need to ring them and let them explain how its happend cause there could be loads of different reasons as to why and without seeing your claim etc no one would be able to answer it for you here, once they have given you the explanation themselves come back and see if someone can help you further.

cherryblossoms

Your entitlement is calculated over the course of a whole year, if you have ever called in the past with a change of circumstances your claim would have been recalculated and the overpayment could have happened then, is it from this financial year? Often when a new claim is started overpayments from the previous claim are from years ago. Call the tax credit helpline and ask which financial year the overpayment is from and an explanation of the overpayment.