tax credit overpayments new report published

angels'mum

I've just recieved a letter from Tax Credits saying that I have been over paid and that I have ignored the payment arrangement they set up.

I split with my partner 2yrs ago and maybe he set up a payment arrangement but I certainly didn't.

I've tried explaining this to them but they say I have to pay the full amount before 24th March!!??

Has anyone else come across this??

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Hi.. To everyone caught up in the HMRC tax credit farce..

there is a self help site here

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

it will show you how to dispute overpaymnets..and let you dowload the forms you need to dispute overpayments. it also gives hints and tips on what to do..

get your MP involved.. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/

write to them and complain.they have a hotline to the HMRC

get the CAB involved... http://www.nacab.org.uk/

they also have numbers to call the HMRC direct..

The battle will take many months, you will be lied too, not told the real truth behind the overpayments.. you letters will take months to be answered, you will ask 10 questions your response will only answer a few..because all the time they will not want to answer questions that put them in the wrong.and reveal the real truth..

Dispute and dispute hard and loud..

hamavore

I have recently discovered the following excellent website which may be of help to others battling with the Tax Credit Office.

www.taxCC.org

Big_Dek

Hi Like many people I also got an overpayment letter, I have replied on many occasions and even going back to 2003 when the bill is for, I queried the amount i received from them and was told it is ok.

Has anybody took the Inland Revenue on and won? Has anybody went to Jail rather than pay? I was thinking of just giving up my work as not worth the hassle. Never been of work since leaving school some twenty odd years ago.

Would love any comments on the above. dsimpson52@aol.com

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Big_Dek wrote: »

Hi Like many people I also got an overpayment letter, I have replied on many occasions and even going back to 2003 when the bill is for, I queried the amount i received from them and was told it is ok.

Has anybody took the Inland Revenue on and won? .

Look here http://familytaxcredit.forumco.com/topic~TOPIC_ID~662.asp ..the

the last one being £19,000...

feel free to browse around

fi_trix29

I'm aware that I'm likely to get shot down in flames for saying this, but the vast majority of overpayments are caused by people either not completing declarations or not telling us about changes to their circumstances. Big brother may be watching but he is not psychic!

averageguy11

And big brother is a right prat sometimes even if u tel him something in triplicate!

emweaver

Thats not the case we were overpaid despite giving them our correct earnings.

Once when we completed the form to give our actual income last yr and I wrote it corectly, as I photocopied it so know what I put they sent out a new award with our income as £20,000 higher!

Then 2 months after our correct award we got another award statement showing our income as £10,000 less ! I rang and rang and they said no we have it correct on our system blah blah ignore that award notice. Now I have to wait and see if we have ANOTHER overpayment

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fi_trix29 wrote: »

I'm aware that I'm likely to get shot down in flames for saying this, but the vast majority of overpayments are caused by people either not completing declarations or not telling us about changes to their circumstances. Big brother may be watching but he is not psychic!

Hi.. this is not a poke at you, but the Tax Credit System, and government, who seem to ignore, nearly all recommendations. that they have been told to impliment by the select committe. the adjudicators office..from years ago.a computer system that had well over 200 system errors, that casued overpayments, and are well publicised in reports.

But... yes.. i think some overpayments, may be caused by filling in the form wrong..but to have 2.8 million wrong payments every year. seems to be standard.. and there are so many high profile cases where the revenue will not admit it is their fault, until years later, all the while causing stress and sometimes suicidal tendancies in some people.. we have people on the forum that have said, they tried to commit suicide. over Tax Credits..

you say Big Brother is not psychic..but the HMRC believe i am.. my award notices, say one thing the HMRC computer something different.but i am told i should of known..one thing the HMRC say, is to check your award notice. i did, and it has the correct income figure i supplied, but it is not the one used to work out the payments..but the HMRC.. still must think, i know all about how tax credits are calculated, that i have an accountant,i have access to the HMRC computer system.. i dont know what..all the while, my questions i ask are not answered, or seem to be ignored.anything that reveals the real truth is always hidden..we all know about the 800,000 letter backlog..last year it was 1,000,000 letters not answered..the reports about the failure of the Tax Credit System are numerous.but all ignored..


just my 2p

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forgot this bit.... concerning not completing declarations.people do complete them, but they have been lost in the post, or maybe in that backlog of mail,at the HMRC..and then the HMRC stupidity begins, they will ask for all the money back, from the whole year, although you can prove your income, and the HMRC will say yes, you were entitled to it, but you didnt send the form back...,high rate tax payers will get a paultry fine...the poor will be stung with stupidity..in one report auditing the Tax Credit System 15% off the peoples re-newals forms could not be found, due to poor filing.. funny really.. from a government body that has been doing paper filing for many years..