Fraud investigation-Tax credits

Poppie68

I can see by one of your other posts that you are pregnant again is your husband still covering the job for you?

princessdon

torch2012 wrote: »

Hi, I actually have no idea why I don't pay NI, its never been on my payslips. I will have to ask my employer.
I don't work for the college, I collect disabled young adults from home and drop hem at college.

I told my employer I was pregnant and they told me I was not entitled to any mat pay as I had only been there a few months. They asked if I knew anyone that would be able to do the job and told them my husband could.
He then started work in September 2011 and was paid £101.02 a week for 52 weeks. Our employer had asked for his national insurance details and had asked if the bank details were to say the same, we gave them all the information and assumed it had all been sorted out with them.

Ok that is now starting to make more sense. Are you classed as agency workers or self employed?

Icequeen99

Why did you change the WTC over to your husband's name?

You would have continued to get it for the 39 weeks maternity leave as you would have still been treated as in work.

So there should be only an overpayment of tax credits for the final 13 weeks.

I think you will have a hard time proving your husband was working. As others have said the NI and Tax situation is relevant as well, as it what your employer was reporting to HMRC.

However, I would probably go down the route of arguing to HMRC that there was entitlement on your claim for at least 39 weeks of WTC even without your husband working.

IQ

torch2012

princessdon wrote: »

Ok that is now starting to make more sense. Are you classed as agency workers or self employed?

Neither, I am an employee.
My boss is employed by the local council and I am employed by my boss.

ILW

Did you get a P60?

torch2012

Yes I am currently pregnant. I will take mat leave in May. My husband is not covering this leave.
When he covered my leave last time it was unofficial maternity leave. I was supposed to be taken off the books and he put on as a new employer. That is why we switched tax credits.

I got the P60 in December last year.

pmlindyloo

Can you just answer the question about who the letter was from? DWP or HMRC?

We might all be going down the wrong road here.

McKneff

Was your OH employed elsewhere before your maternity leave.

Or was he unemployed and claiming JSA or something and did he cancel the JSA.

Did you all live on this one wage that he was bringing in.


P60s are normally supplied in May (after the tax year end)

princessdon

It sounds like your employers sloppiness has landed you in something. I'd visit the CAB as this has longer lasting issues.

Eg officially you STOPPED work, so from September it is a new contract and therefore loss of rights as they denied you maternity. How long did you work before you left for maternity.

I am not convinced your employer has been treating you well and also long term implications.

FBaby

torch2012 wrote: »

In June 2011 I finished my term time only job as I was pregnant, I had not been working long enough to claim any sort of maternity pay/allowance so it was agreed with my employer that my husband would cover my maternity leave.

That doesn't make sense. Either you finished your job and then your husband started a new job there, or you continued to be employed by them, and so you didn't finish. Assuming you were still employed, did you go back after the end of your maternity leave? If not, did you give your dismissal at this time? Did your husband continued to work?

Surely, if you stopped working there in June 2011, you should have received your P45. If you continued to be employed by them, you should have resigned at the end of the 12 months and you should have a copy of that resignation and again, they should have given your P45 at this stage and then you can prove you were not working there. If none of this happened, why not?