To be annoyed with bloody Tax Credits?

[ObsidianEagle]

Honestly, i sometimes wish you could ask them to send you a transcript of your phone conversations.

In january, DH started a new job and i left mine.

I phoned Tax Credits and informed them of both changes, gave them my final income and Dh new employer, date he started and estimated yearly income on the new job if he worked for the whole tax year. (under 17.5k)

i got an award notice, giving details on CTC and WTC for the rest of this tax year and what i'd be paid next tax year, which was good and i was happy.

Today, i got another award notice out of the blue, this one saying i was only getting 1 more WTC payment and would now only get CTC after april.

So i phone them up to ask what's going on as i havent changed anything since the last tax award notice, and they tell me they only got info about my job ending, and i have to give them ALL of the details about DHs new job, all over again, so now i'm stuck in limbo for the next 14 days not knowing if we're getting WTC after april or not until yet ANOTHER tax award notice comes through.

ARGH.

Tax credits are a bad idea. They supplement low wages and keep them low.

They need to be scrapped and replaced with a living minimum wage and childcare that allows parents to work and keep the income.

Write to Ian Duncan Smith at [email protected]
and Louise Boyle of HMRC on [email protected]
Complain, complain, complain. Concentrix are a very dodgy outfit.

Tax credits do wind you up, i have recently had a letter saying they think my childcare payments are wrong and wanting evidence of payments.

I have rung and told them to reduce on the system how much childcare I pay for and they won't accept it as its not more than £10 a week difference

I am actually thinking I may not claim for the childcare element at all as find the insinuation that I am some how defrauding the system upsetting.