Tax Credits - Brown or White envelope

ani_26

Boots888 wrote: »

Any official Tax docs, benefits letters etc are more often than not sent in an A5 "brown" envelope, and always arrive on a Friday.

So - Don't open any A5, Brown envelopes on a Friday, it'll only ruin your weekend and you can't do anything about it anyway.

In fact, always collect your last post for the weekend on a Thursday and leave the rest til Monday. I've been doing that for the last 6 years as if it's not the Tax / Benefits office its a bill of some sorts.

Hilarious :rotfl::rotfl:

That's exactly what my social worker told me to do :rotfl:



Thanks for making my day


( and resurrecting this thread.)


ps - no disrespect to op intended.

piglet74

my renewal notice come in a white envelope,

i just fill it in, and post it back (in a brown envelope!):D

Mara69

piglet74 wrote: »

my renewal notice come in a while envelope,

i just fill it in, and post it back (in a brown envelope!):D

That'll confuse Tax Credits staff. They'll be looking at each other and asking what it means to have received a completed form in a brown envelope. Shred it or input it onto the computer??

Horseunderwater

The white ones need extra info adding and updating etc. Fill out the form, the ring them or post it back. Either is fine. Tends to be the more complicated ones with child care and disability etc.
The brown ones are for an automatic renewal, where income is assumed to be same as all previous years and no changes. However, you should check that contents of brown are right in all aspects. For me(brown one) I needed to keep my claim going as child now 16 years old and classed as not needing CTC. But as she will be going onto 6th form - it needed to be renewed beyond sept 2012. Plus due to an incurable illness and my not being able to work, I now have a drop in income and so I think qualify us to get a little more per week. So I rang and did renewal over phone yesterday. Now I have to wait 4 weeks or so.

annie1975_2

georgiasdragons wrote: »

Heard white envelopes need to renew by phone or paper and brown envelopes do nothing this is because brown envelopes are unemployed or people on benefits where hmrc already know income.

Yes thats right, I did mine this morning.