Childrens Tax Credit
Discussion
Extremely short version of story.
Have been paid too much. Tell them about it at earliest possible opportunity when discover mistake. They send new statement. Overpaid by £x where £100 < x < £125, so no problem for me to just bung a cheque in the post or maybe do an online payment from my bank, just tell me the account to send it and it'll be gone pronto.
Nope, they intend to stop it from my future tax credit payments, which are currently, and will remain at, precisely £0.00/month.
How does that work then?
Is this the taxpayers equivalent of the:-
"Mr Scrote you are guilty as charged, £250 fine and costs."
"Can I pay at 25p/week yer 'onour?"
Have been paid too much. Tell them about it at earliest possible opportunity when discover mistake. They send new statement. Overpaid by £x where £100 < x < £125, so no problem for me to just bung a cheque in the post or maybe do an online payment from my bank, just tell me the account to send it and it'll be gone pronto.
Nope, they intend to stop it from my future tax credit payments, which are currently, and will remain at, precisely £0.00/month.
How does that work then?
Is this the taxpayers equivalent of the:-
"Mr Scrote you are guilty as charged, £250 fine and costs."
"Can I pay at 25p/week yer 'onour?"
It's a weird system allright.
Everything's based on the previous year, so if your family income is changing a fair bit from year to year, if oh, I dunno, there's some weird reason such as frigging maternity leave you get into a seemingly never-ending loop of over/under payments.
Try and sort it out by telling them in advance what the year's figures are likely to be and they can't cope. They'd rather over-pay and then claw it back.
Barmy.
Everything's based on the previous year, so if your family income is changing a fair bit from year to year, if oh, I dunno, there's some weird reason such as frigging maternity leave you get into a seemingly never-ending loop of over/under payments.
Try and sort it out by telling them in advance what the year's figures are likely to be and they can't cope. They'd rather over-pay and then claw it back.
Barmy.
My wife gave up work in April this year. We only told the Child Tax Credit office a few months ago. They recalculated our payments and backdated it to April within 4 weeks as promised. All my wife had to do was call them which was a bit of a pain and then prove she wasn't working anymore (P45). Surprisingly easy.
GreatGranny said:
My wife gave up work in April this year. We only told the Child Tax Credit office a few months ago. They recalculated our payments and backdated it to April within 4 weeks as promised. All my wife had to do was call them which was a bit of a pain and then prove she wasn't working anymore (P45). Surprisingly easy.
It is to start off with, but then you'll be overpaid, get threatening letters, they turn up on your doorstep wanting the money back asap.Easy isn't the word I'd use right now.
It is INITIALLY based on last year's income levels but the applicant is legally obliged to notify HMRC as soon as they find out what the current income levels are going to be.
The problem is that the Revenue seem to always fail to adjust the figures even when they are told the corrected information. When they do finally get around to amending things, they have paid the wrong amount for months and months.
The problem is that the Revenue seem to always fail to adjust the figures even when they are told the corrected information. When they do finally get around to amending things, they have paid the wrong amount for months and months.
F i F said:
Extremely short version of story.
Have been paid too much. Tell them about it at earliest possible opportunity when discover mistake. They send new statement. Overpaid by £x where £100 < x < £125, so no problem for me to just bung a cheque in the post or maybe do an online payment from my bank, just tell me the account to send it and it'll be gone pronto.
Nope, they intend to stop it from my future tax credit payments, which are currently, and will remain at, precisely £0.00/month.
How does that work then?
Is this the taxpayers equivalent of the:-
"Mr Scrote you are guilty as charged, £250 fine and costs."
"Can I pay at 25p/week yer 'onour?"
We had pretty much the same story, they'd paid us a grand or two too much, along with 95% of people who use the system, so they just stopped our base £10 a week payment for a year or two.Have been paid too much. Tell them about it at earliest possible opportunity when discover mistake. They send new statement. Overpaid by £x where £100 < x < £125, so no problem for me to just bung a cheque in the post or maybe do an online payment from my bank, just tell me the account to send it and it'll be gone pronto.
Nope, they intend to stop it from my future tax credit payments, which are currently, and will remain at, precisely £0.00/month.
How does that work then?
Is this the taxpayers equivalent of the:-
"Mr Scrote you are guilty as charged, £250 fine and costs."
"Can I pay at 25p/week yer 'onour?"
I was so racked off with their total lack of competence that I ordered them NEVER to send me another penny again, but they did, once they had clawed back the money they overpaid through their gross stupidity.
Don't expect to rationalise with them, as they are beyond the limits of incompetence, past the slug brain stage, no more use to anybody than a smear of dog crap on your shoe.
Eric Mc said:
....The problem is that the Revenue seem to always fail to adjust the figures even when they are told the corrected information. When they do finally get around to amending things, they have paid the wrong amount for months and months.
That was the problem we had: they continually failed to act on information we gave them.At one stage they even told us it was OUR responsibility to check that THEY were doing their job right, by using the correct figures.
They turned it all round, no matter how much they f
ked it up, making out it was all OUR fault.Utter cocktards, of the lowest possible calibre!!!!!
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