final tax credit decision old joint claim please help

Tracy_ply.

Hi I claimed tax credits with my ex for the period 06/04/13 to the 7th August 2013 it was our first joint claim and I notified when he left straight away , when he was with me he had no income at all I gave tax credits all the detail of what we earned when I claimed .After the claim ended and our marriage annulled as my ex actually got caught out as a serial liar and gay three months after we married , left me in debt and emotionally wrecked he evidently claimed benefit in his own name , I find this out now as tax credits say we have been over payed £1, 000 as they used his income off his p 60 this year to finalise our joint award , this seems wrong he had no income when I made the joint claim and no income when I ended the claim , why should I have to repay money for telling the truth what happens if after we had split he had earnt 50,000 not 3,000 , I don't see they should finalise the award like this I never had any access to the 3,000 we were split so why come to me for an overpayment and how can they count money from after the split ? It didn't exist for the time the joint claim was in payment ??
Is this right as it seems wrong to me , as you do the claim you tell the truth , you have split due to circumstances and then you have been over paid because his income increases AFTER you have split and the claim has ended , during the period of the claim he had no income and I supported him , just seems unfair really and I have no way to repay this as it's a lot of money

Icequeen99

Tracy_ply. wrote: »

Hi I claimed tax credits with my ex for the period 06/04/13 to the 7th August 2013 it was our first joint claim and I notified when he left straight away , when he was with me he had no income at all I gave tax credits all the detail of what we earned when I claimed .After the claim ended and our marriage annulled as my ex actually got caught out as a serial liar and gay three months after we married , left me in debt and emotionally wrecked he evidently claimed benefit in his own name , I find this out now as tax credits say we have been over payed £1, 000 as they used his income off his p 60 this year to finalise our joint award , this seems wrong he had no income when I made the joint claim and no income when I ended the claim , why should I have to repay money for telling the truth what happens if after we had split he had earnt 50,000 not 3,000 , I don't see they should finalise the award like this I never had any access to the 3,000 we were split so why come to me for an overpayment and how can they count money from after the split ? It didn't exist for the time the joint claim was in payment ??
Is this right as it seems wrong to me , as you do the claim you tell the truth , you have split due to circumstances and then you have been over paid because his income increases AFTER you have split and the claim has ended , during the period of the claim he had no income and I supported him , just seems unfair really and I have no way to repay this as it's a lot of money

Unfortunately, this is correct. It is how tax credits are calculated over the year.

They will compare your joint income for the 12/13 year (which was before you got together) with your total taxable income for 13/14 (including the period you had separated) and pro-rata it down to the number of days of the award (so between April and August). But the income is spread evenly day by day it doesn't matter that he got it later in the tax year unfortunately.

IQ