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Right guys to keep it simple I will keep it brief.
Child tax credit wrongly thought that I had a massive overpayment due to a manual error by a nugget in their offices after battling for 7 months it is now accepted that there has been no overpayment on my part but in the interim they have taken £739 of me made up of taking £24 a week out of my tax creds........Now the thing that is p!ssing me off is this..........They accept that I have the right to get this money back BUT...........they are refusing to give it back to me as a lump sum and are now going to divide it up into payments to be made to me from now till next April. While this is a result the fact is that my Tax Credits are used as income for Council Tax and Housing Benefit reasons as I am a student as you all know and this is classed as income therefore if they divide this money up that they have taken of me it is going to look like I get more money than i do and I am going to be financially penalised by HB and CT benefit. As i only get a pittance towards it the mo it will reduce it even more and I think this is very unfair. My MP got on to them and they have said this is the only way they can give it back to me and although someone in complaints departemt told me I would get a lump sum that I was indeed misinformed. Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated.
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Child tax credit wrongly thought that I had a massive overpayment due to a manual error by a nugget in their offices after battling for 7 months it is now accepted that there has been no overpayment on my part but in the interim they have taken £739 of me made up of taking £24 a week out of my tax creds........Now the thing that is p!ssing me off is this..........They accept that I have the right to get this money back BUT...........they are refusing to give it back to me as a lump sum and are now going to divide it up into payments to be made to me from now till next April. While this is a result the fact is that my Tax Credits are used as income for Council Tax and Housing Benefit reasons as I am a student as you all know and this is classed as income therefore if they divide this money up that they have taken of me it is going to look like I get more money than i do and I am going to be financially penalised by HB and CT benefit. As i only get a pittance towards it the mo it will reduce it even more and I think this is very unfair. My MP got on to them and they have said this is the only way they can give it back to me and although someone in complaints departemt told me I would get a lump sum that I was indeed misinformed. Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated.
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