Applied for Working Tax Credits..... and they now want to see proof of everything under the sun... including Credit Card Statements!

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I'm newly single & have never applied for tax credits before. Returned to work part time 2 weeks ago (after mat leave) & today I got a letter asking me to send 3 months worth of invoices for all my credit cards, bank statements, all utilities, child care invoices, child care contracts, pay slips, P60 for last year, rental agreement, child benefit (that's a standard rate FFS!)... the list goes on & on. I certainly wasn't expecting to have to send them copies of my credit card & bank statements.... surely that's none of their business ?

How come they need to see these things when I didn't have to show most of this for child tax credits/income support (when I qualified)/housing benefit?

'I don't like tax credits. That is, I like the money but I don't like the fact that you have to apply for it and hand over so much personal information. Makes me feel like a charity case. Why don't they just make it so that no-one pays any tax at all until you reach a certain income, change the tax bands. '

Because that would make too much sense for a git like Gordon Brown, who couldn't care less for the working poor.

I don't see what credit card statements are needed for.

FFS. Or utilities.

WTC is supposed to be based on your income, not how much fucking electricity you use!

my sentinments entirely, expat!

i think it's utter bullshit. another way to make things harder for the working poor, then bully and persecute people for staying on benefits.