APEAL against over payed tax credits

trish06

just found the apeal info from this site

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/leaflets/wtc_ap.pdf

its states you cannot apeal if it is more than 13 weeks sinse they sent out the demand for the money to be payed back to them, is this right ?

also are they allowed to add interest on ?
thanks for any help

trish06

:j :j :j :j
i hope someone can help me

System

You need the form here http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/forms/tc846.pdf to dispute the overpayment and go ahead and put it in if it is outside the 13 weeks it will still get looked at.

As far as I know they don't add interest on.

If you put the dispute in and they tell you you still have to pay it back the letter will also tell you that you have no right of appeal. However if you have further evidence in your "defence" so to speak, you can ask for a review of their decision.

trish06

thanks pam17

this is an overpayment from 2003/04

they first sent me a letter stating i had been over payed by £5000

now i have a letter asking for 8590.94

we was entiled to claim,as part of that year we were unemployed and on low income,i will put an apeal in many thanks

trish

trish06

just getting used to the thanks button,i should of aplied it ages ago :beer:

ellat257

Since we are on the nightmare subject any suggestions welcome please! I have also been overpaid approx £6900. The TCO admit they added a DLA upgrade onto my notes instead of removing it, They also admit I informed them numerous times in 04-05 that this was wrong but I think I would have more success with a brick wall. I have appealed twice. MP useless and now have two directors letters c/o Preston admitting it was their fault etc but over twelve months on they insist it has to be repaid? Any suggestions welcome please!

System

I'm not sure I can give you any hope on this but the governments attitude is that you knew the award and subsequently your payments were based on the wrong information as evidenced by your many calls to them. So it was not "reasonable" for you to believe you were entitled to keep/spend all the of the payments you received.

That word Reasonable is the most important one and features in the COP 26 leaflet they send out. That's how they win. I don't know of any case where someone has been successful in appealing this kind of overpayment.

lebly

take it to the adjudicator!

icefall

write to your mp?

ellat257

My MP has been totally useless. I am in the process of writing to the adjudicator once my FINAL directors reply is in. I am also waiting for the info held on file. This complete mess is their fault! If I keep telling them the notices are wrong and they keep recording it's wrong but not altering it why is it THEY are chasing me. And yes, I did moan about them on Martins link to ?adviceline. Especially after the time they stopped our payments completely without any notice. Why? Because me and OH had split up 5 months earlier. I did point out that it would be nice if somebody had told us we had split up after 21 years together. They didn't even apologize and took 5 weeks to sort it out. Worse still we pay them to be so incompetent at their jobs!

DazzerG

What I dont understand is that you knew it was incorrect, but still continued to spend the money?

I could almost accept your anger at the overpayment, if you werent aware about it.