Child Tax Credit Overpayments

[eylau]

outrageous

[WAVE_131]

HMC&R have been trying to reclaim an alleged overpayment of over £1000 for some time.

My response is the same....the claims are becoming less frequent....
1) Show me the document where I claimed the money (It is an old over payment and was awarded to me without a claim from myself, in short I took their word that the ammount was accurate)

2) Show me the calculations which gave you the figure of £1000. (They have not)

[simmo40]

hi, new to this but need some help
My wife and i used to recieve family tax credit but we seperated in april 2003 and our payments were payed into a joint acc, but in may of that yr my wife phoned them and changed it to be payed into her new acc and i bleieved she must have told them of situation.
When i phoned them as payments were not going in joint acc i told them of situation and the person i talked to even told me the acc number which she should not have done.
Right got a letter in that yr saying we owed money to them told them what had happened , was told i should have rung and told said i did when money was not being paid into joint acc
Did not hear from them for 4 yrs then today got a letter saying i owe them £650 but sppoke to them saying not had any money from them since we split, they say you did not tell us of changes bloody nightmare.
Where do i stand as it was a joint claim but they changed bak acc without oermission and i told them i left and thought wife had done too
Can anyone give me clue what to do next as waiting for thm to send a form to appeal cheers simmo40

[campaigner]

Please google-search 'tax credit casualties' and you will find plenty of help and advice! I can't give full details here, despite this being a user group and entirely voluntary. This isn't a poaching exercise, as any concerned moderator who knows 'Savvy' can check out with her. Please spread the word. Just as the banks have chanced their arm and robbed the public with extortionate charges and need to be fought, so has HMRC hurt those it was entrusted to help with overpayments of its own creation. It is a dangerous, abusive system defying Human Rights legislation, having no accountability whatsoever, and to be armed with knowledge of your rights as a claimant is to have a fair chance of fighting financial ruin and serious health consequences from the ongoing stress and worry. Do that search, find those who can help FREE, and pass on what you find! Good luck!

[JustM]

Last year I promptly informed tax credits of two changes of circumstance.I reported both on seperate days. It took a month each time to alter my payments. This year I have been forced to pay back nearly £1000, as they have demanded 8 weeks full payments, even though the amount actually over paid was afew pounds. I have had to inform them of another change this year, again it took 4 weeks to alter my payments, for afew pounds, therefore I expect to be demanded to pay another 4 weeks full payments next year, when the annual calculation is done.

They tell me this the law and there is nothing they can do to change payment amounts more promptly or to only claw back the amount actually owed.

Child Tax Credit is my main source of income, so full suspension of payments until they have done their paperwork is not an option and this continual clawing back of an excessive amount of money, every time I inform them of the slightest change of circumstances is causing me and no doubt thousands more, severe hardship.

I urge people to sign this petition to the Prime Minister to stop this practice.

Petition to: stop HMRC clawing back more than has actually been overpaid. | Number10.gov.uk

[rubio]

I have received letters informing me that i have been overpaid when in fact i really haven't. I returned the signed dec's back confirming the amount i received for the previous year, 3 months after the deadline i received a letter saying they had not received the declaration and that i owed them over £3,500 in overpaid payments. I requested another form for us to sign but they could not do this as the deadline had expired. To date i am replying with the same letter that they have treated us unfairly.