Tax Credit Overpayment

TimewaveZero

Last year I was claiming SSP, which ran out on the 31st of August. As I was ill, and had other stuff going on and my head up my bum, I didnt get around to informing HMRC for going on 3 weeks after this to notify them of changes on my Disabled Working Tax Credit claim.

This has resulted in £160 overpayment, and they've now decided well over a year later they want it back. However I havent got the money to give them back.

Also, far as I was aware if you informed then within 4 weeks, no repayments would result. I phoned them up when I first got the overpayment letter, whoever I spoke to at their Preston office basically said I couldnt appeal the decision, as my claim had been closed, and there was "no claim to appeal".

So are they in the right, and I'm going to have to find the money to pay them back from somewhere?

Thanks

lorelai34

When your ssp ended you would have been entitled to a four week run of of working tax credit, so by the time you phoned them you would have been three weeks into the run on but depending on how you are paid and what day you are paid it's not impossible you may have received more wtc than what you where entitled to. The reason they are only asking for the money back now is that tax credits always run from April to April and until the annual declaration is returned they cannot confirm any overpayment as it will depend on income. It is correct you cannot appeal an overpayment however you can dispute an overpayment which you do by filling in a dispute form which you can get from the helpline or from their website.

TimewaveZero

It was £160, so 2 weeks payments. I must of informed them at the end of the 2nd week, so it didnt go into the third. The amount was correct for what I would of normally received, so its basically the 2 weeks of the 4 weeks "run" as you've described it, they're claiming as an overpayment.

If that makes sense?

stroodes

I really don't understand this moaning of being overpaid..............you had more money at a certain time so just pay it back................in installments if need be

stroodes

if they had underpayed you would you want them to write it off?

TimewaveZero

stroodes wrote: »

if they had underpayed you would you want them to write it off?

Actually, clever cloggs, that has happened. I would of been entitled to some sort of return to work credit by the DWP when I first returned to work. I forget the circumstances exactly, but had I known about it and applied for it a month earlier, it would of been granted. Because I applied a month later, it was too late and I wasnt eligible. Despite the circumstances being exactly the same for the period.

So it works both ways. But spot on with the trolling :money:

Oldernotwiser

TimewaveZero wrote: »

Actually, clever cloggs, that has happened. I would of been entitled to some sort of return to work credit by the DWP when I first returned to work. I forget the circumstances exactly, but had I known about it and applied for it a month earlier, it would of been granted. Because I applied a month later, it was too late and I wasnt eligible. Despite the circumstances being exactly the same for the period.

So it works both ways. But spot on with the trolling :money:

Offering someone advice or information that they don't want to hear is not trolling!

TimewaveZero

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Offering someone advice or information that they don't want to hear is not trolling!

So which bit was the advice or information then? Because I cant see any! It's added nothing to the discussion, on which I was seeking advice on the matter.

lorelai34's post, thats information and advice.