Tax Credit success!!!!!

loobyloo1980

jellyhead wrote:

loobyloo i'm really glad you got to keep the money then, if you genuinely thought you were getting the right amount then you will have spent it, so paying it back would have been really difficult! in my case i knew the extra money was wrong and put it into a high interest account because they wouldn't take it back. they've stopped paying me now, i get nothing for a few years until it's all been repaid. that's fair enough, in cases like mine they should be taking the money back but in cases like yours where they've led you to believe you're getting the correct amount then you should get it written off - glad it worked out for you

Yes, it would have been really hard to pay it back. I never even questioned our joint claim, it was only the £790 they reckoned I had been overpaid on a single claim that I argued over. I got my bank statements out and added up what I had received and it actually worked out they had underpaid me on that claim, not the other way round LOL!!!! Anyway, I;m not complaining as I have had a good result. Still bet they c**k p this years though. :mad: