Hi, last April when tax credits was due for renewal it had my income for year over £10000, but I was on maternity allowance for 39 weeks of that. According to tax credits I was over paid and had to pay back over £1100, which I did. But my friend told me that on hers this year, they didn't take of her non taxable maternity allowance which is £100 per week. I phoned tax credits and they didn't do that with mine last year, so my overall income should have been £3900 less than it was so shouldn't have had an overpayment. Has this happened to anyone else and would I get that overpayment back??
My money was also a lot less over last year aswell with the figure being a lot higher so received a lot less tax credits than I should have