Tax credits quandry

bexxie90

Well had a nice suprise yesterday NOT!

received a letter saying all my CTC are stopping due to a different amount to what i told them in April.
the story is:

In April I phoned up and gave them earnings of £27688 for my husband and £3688 for me,my amount is low as I gave them the SMP figure I had got from April 2010-April 2011,you have to take off £3200 (9 months with £100 a week deducted per week) giving me this figure...I returned to work Jan 2011 and earnt £800 per month before tax so I was correct with my figures.....they are now saying I earnt £11,976 now where they have this figure from is beyond me as I only got off top of my head £498 SMP a month gross...I have lost my P60 (yes I know i am stupid) and dont know what to do as my place of work are being unhelpful saying they cant get a yearly figure up for these dates....


Can anyone please advise here? How can they be right?

i started Mat pay April 1st-Jan 1st then like I said three months of £800 so I thought was all correct,we are relying on the money we get at the moment and now I dont know what to do

kind regards
bex

System

If you had the same employer all year all you have to do is look at the last payslip of the 10/11 tax year and take the gross pay to date and take off £100/week for the number of weeks you were on SMP.

bexxie90

I cant even find the blinkin pay slip for that date am so peed off

LL30

You can ring your local tax office and ask them to send you a letter showing how much you earned last year - only took them a few days to send mine (my employer was notorious for not sending pay slips etc). You could then send a copy of this to HMRC with a letter showing your calculation for mat leave (was it 39 weeks SMP? £3900 deducted from the final figure if so). I did this, but only because I'm over cautious....(erm, anal maybe....)