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Working family tax credits?


just an add on to my question from yesterday.ive just been on the phone to find out why they want the money and its because i didnt return the form they sent me. the reason i didnt was because i didnt think you had to if your circumstances hadnt changed and they hadnt at the time . is there anything i can do?

heres the question from yesterday and it should say 2006 -sorry
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

The tax credit form should be returned to them at the end of the tax year to confim your figures to ensure that you received the correct amount of tax credits even if there are no change in circumstances. The only exception to renewing your claim at the year end is if it is an automatic renewal which only applies if you have a high income and are only entitled to the basic element (about 拢500). The form would have had step by step instructions if this were the case.

It maybe worth ringing them and asking for an appeal form so that you can fill it in and get them to check the information. Other than that, if you have to pay it back, you can come to some arrangement with them so that you can afford to pay it back in small amounts - such as 拢5 per week. (they may ask you to provide a list of expenses if you wish to pay it back in small amounts).

Hope this helps and hope you get it sorted.

Other than going to the CAB, I just found this website, which you may find very helpful.

http://www.tameside.gov.uk/welfarerights...

even if your circumstances havent changed,you still have to give them the relevant info?...you can do it by filling in the form ,or over the phone. if your circumstances havent changed and they are billing you for an overpayment...APPEAL..against it. theres too many chiefs and not enough indians at that place,and before i go any farther to the small minded,thats not a racist comment?????????
they tried billing me for nearly 拢2,000 overpayment,at the end they said i owed them about.拢200.00....dont worry unduly,appeal against it,and if need be,appeal again.

the trouble is that you get assessed on your income from the previous year, they pay you tax credits, then sort it out at the end of the next tax year. The trouble is you MUST return your annual renewal form. I think the return date is the end of Sept. If you don't, they end up demanding money back that you were entitled to. Unfortunately some people don't realise how important it is to return this form. It is a common mistake that many people make. Contact your local CAB, your local councillor and your local MP. Make as much fuss as you can. You were entitled to the money, but by not returning the form in time, they are entitled to ask for it back. The IR are in enough bother just now, create a big fuss.

All you can do is appeal to their better nature and ask them nicely to let you off

You have no right of appeal in law because not sending the info back because you didnt think you had to is no excuse

I have known them to wipe the overpayment off if an individual can put time and effort into a letter to them which should be in a polite format and include an apology for the oversight (not returning the said form back ) accept that the overpayment occured because of that oversight. Then a short explanation of current financial hardship which would be worse should they continue to recover the overpayment

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