tax credit overpayments new report published

ALTSEL_2

We have been wrangling with HM Revenue about what they say is an overpayment of £3000 for ages, they now want it all by early November or legal action will occur - please can anybody post some helpful advice to avoid this awful finale??????

thank you

p.s will they accept staged payment by standong order or Direct debit???

socks_uk

ALTSEL wrote: »

We have been wrangling with HM Revenue about what they say is an overpayment of £3000 for ages, they now want it all by early November or legal action will occur - please can anybody post some helpful advice to avoid this awful finale??????

thank you

p.s will they accept staged payment by standong order or Direct debit???

I'm paying back an overpayment that I sent in a dispute form about and challenged but lost. I'm still trying to get someone to look at my case, I even went to my local tax office, but no-one could give me answers and referred me back to TCO.

In the meantime it went to 'Humber Recovery' which is the local Inland Revenue debt collection agency, I think. I'm paying back £220 a month on a £2600 overpayment by direct debit. I still hope one day someone will be able to tell me WHY I was overpaid when I kept them informed of changes every step of the way.

savvy

savvy wrote: »

Know what you mean Strepsy, they don't seem to know their @r$e from their elbow!! I had a demand for a substantial amount, I contested it and they sorted out one part of the problem.

They then came back with that I'd been overpaid by £420 (how THAT can be is anyone's guess when I did exactly as they asked!!!!!) :rolleyes: anyway I had to agree to pay it back by DD over 12 months.

Well I've been waiting for a DD mandate from them for months and months, but then I got a notification that I had been over paid by £94 and that I MUST pay this back and that is the final amount! :rolleyes:

Suffice to say, I've sent a cheque off rapidly, so they hopefully can't come back to me with another fictitious figure!! I still don't see how I could be overpaid when they were taking money off me for a year for an overpayment when they forgot to pay me for my other son But I'd rather pay £90 odd, than £400 odd or the thousands they originally said I owed!!

I hate the fact that they make you out to be a criminal when THEY make the mistake!!! :mad:

Ha ha that'll teach me for being optimistic!!!

The little darlings have now come back to me with a demand for £420 and haven't even acknowledged the fact I've paid the £90 odd And if I don't pay by a date in November they will take me to court :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

savvy

Sean9015 wrote: »

and told them I will not deal with them by phone as I cannot get the same answer twice, and my notes of conversations do not tie in with what they put on screen. The last irony (after a court threat) was to tell me to ring an 0845 number - which I can't off an overseas mobile!

There's no way I'm ringing them any more, you get someone that fills you with optimism and hope, then they dash your hopes with another letter from them that contradicts what was said on the phone....................and you have no record or proof of what was said, letters for me from now on!!!!

savvy

creamtea wrote: »

http://www.taxcreditoverpayment.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

see how many have had problems due to the errors by TC software - NOT the fault of claimants - its a well known software error. Keeps defaulting to zero whenever anyone calls the call centre!

I've finally bit the bullet and emailed someone from that site...............and almost immediately got a comprehensive, supportive reply back :T:T There's a mine of information and forms that you can use to fight your case, very helpful, so I'm going for it even though my amount is insignificant compared to many on this thread

vanman7

My partner had a phone call a few weeks ago from someone called The Lewis group claiming to be calling on behalf of the DWP asking her to repay over £1000 from 1998 & 1999. We asked them to send something in writing but had nothing yet. Until today, when they phoned again asking her to repay the money. And she was told to write to DWP if she wanted to contest the matter with proof. What proof? As a ’home maker’ for some years she does not have payslips going back this far. She told them that she wouldn’t repay any money, as it was over six years ago. And they say that because it is a government debt it can be reclaimed even after 25 years.!!!
Is this right? And if so where does she stand?
Any ideas anyone????

P.S. how the hell can they justify waiting till 9 (NINE) years later to ask for the money back?
Is our government in such financial difficulties that they need every penny they can get there hands on to keep this country afloat???????

savvy

This sounds really weird to me that they haven't written to her first

And I maybe wrong, but strange that the government are selling off their debt to a debt company - The Lewis Group, would have thought they would recover it themselves.

I think I would keep pushing for written evidence, statements etc etc, from them

vanman7

savvy wrote: »

This sounds really weird to me that they haven't written to her first

And I maybe wrong, but strange that the government are selling off their debt to a debt company - The Lewis Group, would have thought they would recover it themselves.

I think I would keep pushing for written evidence, statements etc etc, from them

Any idea about the length of time they have to reclaim the money? i thought the only exemption of reclaiming owed money (like bank charges) after six years was mortgege repayments ???

savvy

vanman7 wrote: »

Any idea about the length of time they have to reclaim the money? i thought the only exemption of reclaiming owed money (like bank charges) after six years was mortgege repayments ???

No, sorry, I thought the same as you

vanman7

savvy wrote: »

No, sorry, I thought the same as you

well....i took on Barclays and won nearly £4000 from them, so im not afraid to take on these guys either.

Anyone else got any views on the matter??????