Another HMRC problem

[matt5983]

A little background, last year from jan to apr me and my wife split. I told DWP and was told i need to claim as a single parent which i did, then in may last year we decided to give it another go.

Rang them again, told what had happened and the award notice was amended.

Roll on till now, i had the renewal pack through as a joint application which i have filled out and sent back, received a back payment of approx £900.

Then last week another renewal pack came through for when i had to claim as a single parent, the form asked what i had earn't from jan10-apr2010 and if there figure of 9k-33k was correct then dont call but do so if it was not.

Well it wasnt, no way near it......about 3k in total. So i rang them and they wanted to know for the whole tax year apr10-apr11, now i said i have already sent this in on my joint application 2 weeks ago, but was told i still have to do for this renewal.

Told her how much as they thought about 12k, i told her the figure of 6k because i spent alot of time off sick, asked if i had received any other benefits in that time, which i did. Income based JSA, she said i cannot add that on to the figure as they cannot include it only contrabution based JSA they will use. So take 2k off that, she then said i will receive a huge back payment as its half of what they thought i was earning.

Now when i done my Joint renewal i included my JSA as i thought i had to, she said not to worry as they think i earned more than what i actually did so there is no-way i have had an overpayment.

What i'm worried about is that i done the joint renewal and the payments were sorted, then i had to do the single renewal and im afraid its gonna cock everything up and i'll end up owing them money.

Sorry for the long post

[ErikaPNP]

Hi Matt.

 

This appears to be about tax credit, which is dealt with by HMRC not DWP. Can you please confirm what benefit it is that you are referring to?

[matt5983]

Hi

 

Is It?

 

Its for child tax credit and working tax credit

[honeybee13]

Hi

 

Is It?

 

Its for child tax credit and working tax credit

 

I think it is too. Here's a link to the HMRC website. On the page where you work out what you could be eligible for, it says the form should be sent to HMRC.

 

http://taxcredits.hmrc.gov.uk/Qualify/WhatAreTaxCredits.aspx

 

I hope that helps.

 

My best, HB

[matt5983]

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