A big thankyou to *EXPATININSCOTLAND* and anyone having trouble with tax credits I urge to to contact your MP I got ....

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a £1706 rebate this week less than 8 weeks after writing to my MP (thanks expat it was you who urged me to do it) and she wrote to them on our behalf (no letter from them just happened to check online but phoned them and they confirmed our money and apology in post and we get monthly payments from July!!)

Will find my original thread that explains there cock up and when I appealed they said they would continue to recover costs (there error that I pointed out to them that they continued to pay for months)

Should have pursued it years ago (error happened in 2006 but had 2 mc's and difficult pg with dd2) but am astounded they have refunded all my missed payments (and means we can take clear overdraft and a chunk of teh credit card bill)

Thanks califrau!!!!

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HURRAY!!!

I am soooo glad to hear this!!!

You deserve every penny.

Enjoy it.

Well done! This is really good for you. I'm so pleased it all worked out.

Great news. Pour us all a glass of champagne.

lol - i phoned another mumsnetter from my ante/post natel thread (never met her we live opposite ends of country but we text/speak daily) and she said 'fab now book the same holiday as us for next year'

If you get nowhere with your MP, still don't take it lying down!

Go to the Adjudicator, to a welfare rights advisor, to your local councillor, to the press even.

Complain to any and all.

Seriously, there's a fairly recent thread on here about people getting royally screwed by this sham of a system, not to mention how 'onlyjoking' was cut off without a bean by them only last week and told to file a new claim, which can take up to 6 weeks to process, because her spouse died.

Any system with unfairly targets the poor and working poor like this deserves to be hunted down, especially when our MP's voted to keep their £24,000/annum second home allowance and gave themselves a 2.5% pay rise only two days ago.

I emailed my MP today to say thankyou, I honestly think because she is 'high profile' MP that helped (Ann Widdicombe)

I am going to find a nice card and write thanking her because I honestly thought it was going to be a nightmare and take ages and literally 3 emails and photocopy 7 pages and it was done!!

(shame is its our 5th wedding anniversary today and I budgeted and saved so we could go out for cheap meal and cinema (il's were going to have the dd's overnight for us) and dd1 poorly with tonsilitis and ear infection so we are at home and could have celebrated in style! Ordered a lovely chinese with money I saved and now working out best way to use tax credit money to help us finacially)

put it aside for winter fuel bills .

lol I just upped the direct debits reAady to start building up some credit (I religiously read the meters every 3 months to check we are not in debit to them)

overdraft paid off now!

Just got to work out what I need to leavr in bank account for other bills and slight slush fund then transger a whack of it over to credit card bill (that has had to be used as we were left with no tax credits!)