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[Martin_1962]

If you have had any changes contact them - they will change and pay you quite easily.

Just remember it comes from the tax money you have paid anyway.

Just waiting now on my lump sum

[Vamps]

You put in your claim, they pay you and then the following year they say you have been paid too much.   We got nothing for  year and were told we owed more than the previous year.  A minefield that can cause great problems for some families. Don't want to even go there...

[albitz]

Controversial I know but it should be abolished IMO,the welfare state should be a safety net for people in real hardship.Not for redistributing wealth.





Tin hat on,hatches battened down etc.

[P_Russell]

Agreed Albs.  Also the system is so very complica\ted no-one can work out how its calculated and so there is no confidence you're ever getting the right amount. 

[Vamps]

Controversial I know but it should be abolished IMO,the welfare state should be a safety net for people in real hardship.Not for redistributing wealth.




Tin hat on,hatches battened down etc.

We are talking Tax Credit, NOT Working Tax Credit. I am no expert, but as I understand it there used to be a bit of income tax relief for children, this has now been replaced with Tax Credit, a totally Crap system who's failure has caused real hardship for some families.  I know of a family who were given £14,000 in tax credit cos someone put the decimal point in the wrong place, this family were aware enough to know there was a mistake and did not spend the money, it took them many phone calls over about 9 months before the tax credit people accepted a mistake and took the money back. I could go on, but can't be bothered at this time of night. Crap system, and find me a CAB or welfare rights organisation that disagrees with me, and as we say ' I will show my ares in Binns window'......

[albitz]

It could be made a lot simpler.Tax working people a lot less and then they wouldnt have to  bother attempting to redistribute the money they have already taken off them in the first place.

[Vamps]

It could be made a lot simpler.Tax working people a lot less and then they wouldnt have to  bother attempting to redistribute the money they have already taken off them in the first place.

As it used to be, though not sure about ' a lot less'..

Seemples...

[albitz]

The final destination of the direction we are heading in will be that we dont recieve wages,it goes to the state who then decide who gets what and when and why.
All incentive and enterprise killed.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Child tax credit ......whats that

[tunnie]

Child tax credit ......whats that

Something Mrs TheBoy gets for keeping TB out of trouble?  :-/

[bigboykarl]

i know somebody who split with her husband in the run up to the first year of tax credits 03 i think ..they had made a joint claim on line she tried for 8 weeks inbetween her shifts at lunch breaks to get through and inform them of the change but as the whole system was in meltdown she could never get through.the next year she informed them thinking that they'd stop whatever overpayment she had had and nothing was said they stopped her first claim and started a new claim...5 years later they came back asking for all the first year repayed..she said well i must be entitled to at least 80% of it ..there reply was well you can't claim for back payments longer than 6 months ago...so she now owes thousands

[albitz]

Child tax credit ......whats that

Apparently,these days having children entitles you to be given state funding for some bizarre reason.Probably dreamt up to encourage 15 year old chavesses to have loads of kids who will all live on benefits and although they might not learn to write their own names they will be able to put an X on a ballot paper and they will know instinctively that putting the X in the box beside the Labour candidate will guarantee their lifestyle can continue.

[bigboykarl]

Child tax credit ......whats that

Apparently,these days having children entitles you to be given state funding for some bizarre reason.

probably so the children find jobs and pay tax to fund the pensions of people like me and you who are living longer than ever

[albitz]

If that was the intention it hasnt worked.And I have been putting money into my own personal pension plan for years,I dont want to pay for anyone elses keep and I dont want anyone else paying for mine.If only the whle country agreed on that point then we wouldnt be paying approx.50% of our wages directly or indirectly in taxation.

[Martin_1962]

Child tax credit ......whats that

A way of getting back some of the large amounts of tax I pay