tax credit overpayments new report published

Jillica

My daughter has just split up with her partner and has moved in with me. They owe about £6000 in overpayments for my granddaughter who is 3 years old. She has filled out a single parent claim but i was wondering if she will have to pay all the debt back herself or will her and her ex partner have to pay equal amounts!
Thanks
Jillica xxx

Kimitatsu

Jillica wrote: »

My daughter has just split up with her partner and has moved in with me. They owe about £6000 in overpayments for my granddaughter who is 3 years old. She has filled out a single parent claim but i was wondering if she will have to pay all the debt back herself or will her and her ex partner have to pay equal amounts!
Thanks
Jillica xxx

If it was a claim whilst they were together and was claimed as a couple then they are jointly and severaly liable. So they both have to pay half - however the sting in the tail is that if HMRC cannot claim for whatever reason from one partner they reserve the right in extreme cases to recover the money from one partner.

HTH

mermaid121212

hi,,,i heard in the news that the tax credits had made a mistake,regarding overpayments,due to some problem with the tax credits system,and people can claim it back.has anyone else heard of this ??

TotallyBroke

Gave birth to ds Jan 07 and claimed tax credits. This is based on what we earnt in 2005/2006 which was hardly anything. I'd been out of the country and was doing cash in hand until a job came available but never claimed same for partner. When review pack came through tax credits were based on what we earnt 2006/2007. Partner wage was approx £3,000 and mine was £11,000 as went on MA. When I went back to work May 07 I informed them my wage would be £20,500 and when partner got full time work earning £7.31ph for 44hours pw. I informed them. My wages now gone upto £22,000 and again I have told them. I asked for payments to stop as with a joint income of £39,000 I don't think we qualify. Well imagine my surprise when we got the normal payment of £700+ and extra of £300+. I've rung tham but don't understand the explanation. They say we are owed this extra for the end of the year. I'm hoping this is the last of the baby element which stops when ds is 1yo. I'm just scared now that in April when we fill in the review pack we are going to owe them 1000s. I've set up a savings account to put the next few months tax credits into but how can I get them to stop paying it so I don't owe even more. Any advice greatly received. Thanks

yummymummyjules

gosh, tax credits really mess some of u about.

bow1508

does anyone that gets tax credits not get it messed up by them?? I wonder how much money is spent on printing and postage and all those stupid booklets. I spent alot of 2007 ringing them to say they still had our figures wrong. I even types up a spread sheet for them to copy but they still got it wrong. Each bundle of papers comes through the post (two copies of the same thing as there are two names on the claim to the same address) with a booklet each time. I started saving them up and posted them back on a blind persons label from my husband, was told they would only bin it anyway!!! Tax payers unite! this is your money they are burning!

DdraigGoch

tell me about it

We kept telling them everything as it happened - guess what, we owed them £315. We contacted them and you'd think we'd threatened to burn the place down:eek: They ignored the fact that we had submitted our claim and demanded the money back - we reminded them again that we'd put the claim in - the reason they said they wanted the money back was that they'd paid out and we'd not put in any paperwork....:mad: - and that THEY'D lost it, we offered to put it in again. They then said that we couldn't put the paperwork in again as it was too late - how on earth were we to know that they'd lost it?????

To add insult to injury they would only discuss the claim with my OH :eek: and their opening hours are the same as his ... so he couldn't ring them - aaaaaaaaaaargh

I HATE this government :mad:

yours, in a strop,
DG

ps we're now paying it back monthly and can't claim for this year as we were overpaid last year .... work that one out?!? How is it that we can't claim?

gaz40_2

can you get child tax credits back dated.Has anyone done that?

sarahluv

Yes, by up to 3 months

sherwoodhappysaver

Hi,

I have had the merry-go-round of phonecalls to WFTC, putting me through to wrong departments, lasting hours. :mad: I've been chasing WFTC for over 6 months to get in writing the payments they have overpaid to me. They are proceeding to take me to court even though they will not give me in writing the info I need to appeal to this.

When I ask them if they could wait until I have the paperwork they say they can't stop the proceedings without an appeal and give me no sympathy to the fact that I can't appeal because they have not sent me the details. :eek: (The system is seriously flawed - and assumes the claimant is wrong.)

Anyway I went to their Data Controller and got free copies of all the paperwork they have on me - which has to be sent in 40 days - I am still waiting for the other paperwork I requested in August. IS THIS A DELIBERATE POLICY THE WFTC HAVE TO AVOID APPEALS BEING SUCCESSFUL?

The paperwork supports my version of events all I have to do is convince the WFTC of that now. :cool:

As an added point of interest the details they have also show someone was making a fraudelent claim with my details. WFTC have never mentioned this in all my phonecalls.

Hope this can help some others out there fighting the beast that is WFTC. - SHS