childrens tax credit refund

[Kerrie78]

Expect a PM very soon Dons (wink wink)

[Kerrie78]

Hi Dons, thanks for that.
I actually got through to them this morning fairly quickly, and spoke to somebody who actually had a clue!

I am eligible, and as we haven't already received the payments, the first payment will be for £520 for the year 2001/2, and we will be getting £529, for 2002/3, plus interest. But he couldn't tell me how much that would be because my claim has been sent to the processing department in Leeds.

He said to expect a cheque no later than a week from now.

Woohooooooo

[Dons2008]

Hi Kerrie

So glad you have had some luck!!! from my calculations the interest on the 520.00 at 8% should approximate at around 41.60 (not bad hey!), and the interest on the 529.00 should be around 42.32...

Meanwhile I am still waiting....!!

Great to hear your luck is changing girl you deserve it!!

Dons xxx

[jaxads]

Hi Kerrie

Fantastic news. Welll done. I've read through your posts and seen that it's taken them some time, but brilliant result. Enjoy


I sent off my letter this morning - so here's hoping !!

[Kerrie78]

Thank you Dons.

Best of luck to you also, hope you hear soon.

[Dons2008]

Good luck to everybody doing this - keep posting your progress and keep your heels dug in...

Donsx

[vinegarvera]

I received a letter back from mine to say I had already been paid the money in child tax credit Boohoo

[Kerrie78]

Further to my post on 16th April I am STILL waiting on my cheque.

I phoned again yesterday and evetually somebody answered and she kept checking different details etc, then when she came back to the phone she said Leeds have got a processing backlog of between 4-6 weeks due to having to deal with claims from this year first.

She said I shouldn't have been given a timescale in the first place. Needless to say I wasn't happy so grudgingly she gave me the address of Leeds for where to send my complaint.

Who else is there that you can complain about the service (or lack of) from these people, surely theres got to be somebody who they answer to cos I would like to get in touch with them aswell.

Thanks

[Dons2008]

Kerrie

Next stop is your local MP - Do it! Do it! Do it!

[Kerrie78]

shes about as much use as you know what

[Kerrie78]

we asked for her help regarding my other post and she's done nothing at all. I have been advised to write to her opposition but I havent done so yet.

[mich7k]

Hi Kerrie and the rest of the tax credit refund crew! I have just spoken to the tax office regarding this they told me that my tax code in 2002/2003 was 461 so i didnt recieve and tax credits for that year beyond that he cant see any other details prior to that so ive sent off my letter so here goes................

[crispqueen]

Hi- just letting you all know that Im I sent a letter (northern Ireland), 3 weeks ago recorded delivery, and still nothing...will keep up with the posts to see whats happening

[honey5]

i rang this lot and apparently i didnt receive in 2001~2002 nor 2002~2003
which they admitted on the telephone, but siad even if they send out the form then they arent guaranteed to pay and would have to fight my case against them
1st child born 27/09/94
2 children born 28/06/96

can only live in hope
honey x

[Kerrie78]

Just an update on mine, I phoned our MP case worker again and asked her to look into this and see why it's taking so long, as it has been 4 months now and each time I call them I get no further forward.
She has assured me she will call them and see what is going on but I havent had any feedback yet.

Has anyone else actually received a cheque yet?

[Dons2008]

NOPE!

[Kerrie78]

I phoned again yesterday to ask what was happening with my claim. The operator said that there was unfortunately still no update on her screen. But she could see that I had called on May 2nd and had been advised to call back in 4-6 weeks, so she said she would telephone the department and ask if they could hurry it through (pity they didnt hurry it through when they got it on Jan 25th lol). So still no cheque for me either.

[crispqueen]

I`ve not heared anything either - goin on 6 weeks- looks like all the tax offices are taking forever...

[Kerrie78]

Update:

I telephoned 2 weeks ago demanding this be sorted out that day as I was tired of being fobbed off, only to be told by a young lad that he was passing my case back down to my local IR Office for an urgent review. I Waited a week and telephoned again to be told that they had passed it down as agreed but there was no update as yet.
Then the day after I had called my local office wrote me a letter stating that the Childrens Tax Relief claims were currently being looked into and if I needed any further advice then I could contact them on a new number.

This morning they sent me another letter and it states (after almost 6 months and at least 10 phone calls) that my husband received the money as part of his tax code for both years in question. The lady says that If I dispute this then its up to us to prove otherwise within 30 days or she will close the case.

Now this is where I am stuffed, because I am sure I sent the p45's off to them initially as requested and now I don't have them, and they said they haven't go them either.

I am 80% sure that we havent received this benefit during 02/03 as previously 2 seperate operators in Yprkshire have told me that we didn't receive it, and one of them even gave me the breakdown of what I would be getting.
Now I feel this is a ploy to put me off but I need to know if there is a way I can obtain duplicate p45's for the tax years 2001/2 and 2002/3

Thanks