Brown ‘cheats' working families
WORKING families are being “brutally discriminated” against by the Government’s Tax Credit system, according to a damning new report.
Former Labour minister, Frank Field’s ?Reform’ thinktank has found that single parents have little incentive to form new relationships as they face losing hundreds of pounds of benefits.
Piles of Money
Biggest Tax Credits Pay out Ever, and on Time!!!
Thursday 1 November 2007
Tax credit claw-back was illegal
Tax credit claw-back was illegal
HARD-UP workers forced to repay millions of pounds in bungled tax credits without warning are to get the cash back ? because the Government acted illegally.
Ministers failed to notify claimants in 250,000 cases over three years that they meant to claw back the cash.
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A HM Revenue and Customs whistleblower claimed around £500million will have to be repaid, on top of a £200million bill to fix the fiasco.
HARD-UP workers forced to repay millions of pounds in bungled tax credits without warning are to get the cash back ? because the Government acted illegally.
Ministers failed to notify claimants in 250,000 cases over three years that they meant to claw back the cash.
...
A HM Revenue and Customs whistleblower claimed around £500million will have to be repaid, on top of a £200million bill to fix the fiasco.
OPFS joins call for Tax Credit overhaul
OPFS, One Parent Families Scotland.
Posted: 09.10.2007 Immediate Release
Following today's critical report into Tax Credits by the Parliamentary Ombudsman, One Parent Families Scotland have called for a major overhaul to the Tax Credit system.
"We need a simpler and fairer way of supporting families on low wages", comments Ian Maxwell, Associate Director of One Parent Families Scotland.
"We know from callers to our Lone Parent Help-line that Tax Credits are too complicated, that the paperwork is often difficult to understand, and the Tax Credit Helpline often fails to give correct answers to the more complicated questions."
"Tax Credits aren't 'fatally flawed', but unless the Government owns up to these problems and sorts them out quickly, lone parents who could use these extra payments to return to work will be deterred from even thinking about employment."
Note: Scotish Law may be different for United Kingdom Law.
Posted: 09.10.2007 Immediate Release
Following today's critical report into Tax Credits by the Parliamentary Ombudsman, One Parent Families Scotland have called for a major overhaul to the Tax Credit system.
"We need a simpler and fairer way of supporting families on low wages", comments Ian Maxwell, Associate Director of One Parent Families Scotland.
"We know from callers to our Lone Parent Help-line that Tax Credits are too complicated, that the paperwork is often difficult to understand, and the Tax Credit Helpline often fails to give correct answers to the more complicated questions."
"Tax Credits aren't 'fatally flawed', but unless the Government owns up to these problems and sorts them out quickly, lone parents who could use these extra payments to return to work will be deterred from even thinking about employment."
Note: Scotish Law may be different for United Kingdom Law.
Tax credit system "losing £1bn a year"
Tax credit system "losing £1bn a year"
£1,000,000.00
The tax credit system is making "unacceptably high" losses, according to a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO).
The study revealed that fraud and errors are costing taxpayers as much as £1bn a year.
In addition to this, £2.3bn of tax credits that were overpaid in 2003/04 were yet to be recovered by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in April 2007.
Sir John Bourn of the NAO said, ’Once again, the levels of claimant error and fraud in the tax credit schemes are unacceptably high. It is important that the department now targets reductions in levels of error and fraud and considers how its compliance teams can engage more widely with tax credit claimants’.
Responding to the report, the Government said that instances of error and fraud have been falling since last year, when measures were taken to reduce the problem.
However, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has urged Chancellor Alistair Darling to do more to tackle the issue.
£1,000,000.00
The tax credit system is making "unacceptably high" losses, according to a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO).
The study revealed that fraud and errors are costing taxpayers as much as £1bn a year.
In addition to this, £2.3bn of tax credits that were overpaid in 2003/04 were yet to be recovered by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in April 2007.
Sir John Bourn of the NAO said, ’Once again, the levels of claimant error and fraud in the tax credit schemes are unacceptably high. It is important that the department now targets reductions in levels of error and fraud and considers how its compliance teams can engage more widely with tax credit claimants’.
Responding to the report, the Government said that instances of error and fraud have been falling since last year, when measures were taken to reduce the problem.
However, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has urged Chancellor Alistair Darling to do more to tackle the issue.
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