How do you pay back a tax credits overpayment when you move over to universal credit?

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I have received a message to tell me how much universal credit I will be receiving for the first time this week but there is no mention of the tax credits overpayment.

I googled and apparently I will be receiving a letter but it might be in a few months. I was wondering how you pay it back as with tax credits they took an amount out of my award every month. Thanks if anyone knows.

In effect the same way any other repayment is recovered. They might alter your tax code or deduct it from UC.

They are taking 1/8 of my UC back until it's paid off.

A small amount will start to be deducted from your UC at some point. I've attached a pic of part of my UC statement so you can see how the deduction will appear on it😊

They take it out of your UC. Initially they took a HUGE amount off ours, but I rang up the debt repayment line and sorted out a smaller amount, they were really helpful about it

Ok thanks for that. I feel like it’s hanging over me as it was a large amount from about eight years ago and I still haven’t paid it all back!