Tax credits nightmare!!! I know boring lol

[MerryMegandSnowySoph]

Just wanted to know if anyone else is having to be payed their tax credits by giro at the moment, due to more B**tard computer errors?

Changed my payments with them last week as I'm paying less in childcare cost until january and now they have stopped, wish I hadn't bothered my arse and just payed them back next year instead.

I was from April until November and at sometime in November they paid 6 months into my bank, so now will have to pay it back next year

i dont even know if i should be getting them at all, i get £2.73 a week paid into my account (reduced amount cos they overpaid us last year - dont know how cos all details i gave were definately correct), but recently got a letter saying i would have to send a cheque for the amount i owe them as i am no longer entitled and they would contact me about it. then i got another letter saying they were paying me the £2.73. i dont understand them. i dont know if they think it helps to send out 6 copies of every letter, but they always do. the whole thing is a huge joke imo

a birdie has told me(person working for IR call centre) that a lot of details are being stolen and used to set up false claims.

It has been national insurance numbers mainly that are stolen and this is an internal thing

whenever they send us anything on those green papers it always says estimate although they are sometimes the actual figures so when I use them as evidence for other things I get them sent back and asked for the non estimated ones..which I can never get hold of

jambo thats bloody awful. My mates also having trouble IR have suddenly decided that she doesn't have any children thats funny as I pick her wee boy upfrom school...

I just hope to high heavens that they sort this out before I go back to work otherwise I will have to leave my job as there is no way I will be able to work and pay the full £300 a week childcare.

I'm am getting so frikkin angry now

Please is anyone else having to get a giro from IR at the mo?

They sent a referal for manual payment on wed last week and it'snot even been sent out yet

what the hell am I going to do I canny afford to find the whole ammount of childcare costs every week until they sort it out I will have to give up my job

thats awful, have they said when it can go back into your bank?

Think the whole system is a sham really

no she said it could take months for it to be rectefied sp? She told me that they would send me giros but that was 7 days ago and when I called today she said it's not showin as been sent yet

I seriously don't know what to do.

my mum said to get in touch with my mp as he helped me with another goverment body when they messed me around for over a year saying there was computer errors and they soon sorted it out.

The other goverment thingy was the lurvvvvley CSA

If you go to local tax office ( if you have one!) they will give you a giro for 2 weeks money then you will be sent monthly.But when they start paying into your bank again they will backdate it and you have to repay again.

another way to do it is go to local office and ask for emergeny payment.

THIS CAN BE DONE DON@T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER

You may need to be form with them though. They will soon sort out your direct payment super fast too