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Tax Credits overpayment?

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They don't make you pay it back in one lump sum, they take it by reducing or stopping your usual payments :)
 
When i rang up i was told i was entitled to £20 per week, i've recieved a payment of £1600 and they said im entitled to £577 a month which im certain is wrong... i rang and told them but they are convinced its right. :?
 
This happened to our friends, they called, emailed them etc etc advising they were wrong and they kept getting told they were correct and to leave it. few months later they got a letter advising them they were going to take the money back. Luckily our friends kept all correspondence and took it to their MP and it was cancelled and they didn't have to pay back
 
happy_chick said:
When i rang up i was told i was entitled to £20 per week, i've recieved a payment of £1600 and they said im entitled to £577 a month which im certain is wrong... i rang and told them but they are convinced its right. :?
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record the convo or get confirmation in writing.
 
Urchin said:
happy_chick said:
When i rang up i was told i was entitled to £20 per week, i've recieved a payment of £1600 and they said im entitled to £577 a month which im certain is wrong... i rang and told them but they are convinced its right. :?
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record the convo or get confirmation in writing.
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Apparantly for a telephone convo to stand in court you have to inform the person that you are recording the conversation... I have asked for a confirmation letter, will wait til I recieve that and if its still not correct i will email/write to them so that i have a record I think :)

I know I will have to pay it back... which to be honest i dont mind as its come at a good time (we're saving to buy house) so we can just call it an interest free loan off the government :lol: ;) their mistake afterall!
 
i know we are going to have a heafty overpayment to go bk lol.. afterall they based it on the previous year when alex was out of work and only earned from the december-april.. we did tell them that he will be earning more this yr.. but they still didnt adjust it.. imo.. they should base it on ur last 3 months pay slips not the previous financial year.. jsut coz u were ok last yr doesnt mean this year will be the same.. its a stupid system if u ask me.. we were really strugglign the prev year and this year we have been really well off.. so for us to pay it back doesnt seem fair coz we have struggled the past year coz it was based on teh previous.. madness
 
i am paying it bk at the moment i hav been overpaid £1200 and am paying it bk at £80 a month
 
mary70 said:
i am paying it bk at the moment i hav been overpaid £1200 and am paying it bk at £80 a month
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Did u just pay it back or did u argue it first?
 
they didnt give me a chioce they just said they would be taking £80 a month out of the money i got, i said i couldnt afford it but they didnt want to know
 
I'm also paying back what they overpaid. At first they took about 20% of what I was given every payment. Then when OH started to earn more and my award went down to the basic family level they stopped paying me altogether and now use what I would have been paid to pay it back if you know what I mean

I told them at the time it was wrong, and I did appeal, but I had no proof so that was that.
 
It's their stupid system thats the problem with people getting overpayments.

We owe them £2500 apparently. When I spoke to them they wouldn't exactly explain to me what had happened to cause my original claim to have been overpaid.

They even had the cheek to send someone out to my house and ask me to take out a loan to pay it back! I just told him when they explain to me why it happened then I'd pay it back but until then they can whistle for it lol.

Needless to say I've never paid them a penny, and we don't claim tax credits anymore anyway.
 
To be honest I hate the whole Tax credits thing, if you're on a low or no income this year then it's tuff cause it's based on last years, if they pay you too much its there own fault yet it's automatically taken out of your payments, stuff if you can afford it or not. They don't pay you the childcare award if only one of you is working but you still need to pay childcare (well I do anyways) and I was told if I were to go to college in September then I wouldn't get anything then either :x
 
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