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| jenni | Sep 29 2006, 08:22 AM |
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 pj have joined the site and thanks for your emails already.i believe that the figures for 02/03; 03/04; 04/05 and 05/06 were all that if your income changed by more than £2000 you had to inform them. If it fell under what your estimated income was (what you earnt the year before), then you had to tell them. when I first claimed in October 2002, I was on maternity leave as I had just had my eldest. They sorted it out really quick because I was living on Income Support (had a job but didn't work enough hours to qualify for maternity pay). I was off work until the end of January 2003 and when I returned to work obviously what I thought I might earn by April was significantly less. So I rang the TC helpline and they said was I definite this would be the case. I said well no not 100% until I got my P60 and they said fine tell us the correct figure when you get that. So when that arrived in May 2003 I told them. Also, I had a pay rise in the March so my earnings for the next year would go up. In June 2003 they sent two award notices. One had the old information on (what I'd earnt 2002/2003), the other had the new details. Both had different payment amounts on. For the first few weeks they paid the amounts based on the new figures. Then the payments changed but only by a couple of pounds - sometimes they were less than the award notice said and sometimes they were more but not by much. Then in November they what they called a "new award notice." I didn't understand why because none of my details had changed. This "new" notice was based on the old information (02/03). I rang the TC helpline and told them this, they said they would amend it. No award notice was sent then until February 2004 and the payments reduced so I just believed they had corrected their mistake. Then in February 2004 they sent an award notice with the correct information on but changing the payments again I believed because they hadn't been paying enough in the first place. Then in March I had another pay rise so I rang them. They said was I likely to exceed my previous years salary by more than £2000. I said it didn't look like it because by this point it didn't. But come May and with my P60 because of there being a sale in March and me doing so much overtime I earned £50 more than the £2000 difference. Yes, just £50!!!! Then I told them in June that I was increasing my hours to 20 a week. They then adjusted the figures accordingly. To begin with it went fine although every month my Working Tax paid by my employer seemed to change quite dramatically even though I was earning basically the same amount every month. I didn't think anything of it though. Then they sent an award notice based on the old information yet again so I rang and they said they'd change it. Then in one week in September they sent 4 different award notices. 2 had the right information - 1 had the old information and the other had info on I swear they must have just made up. Anyway, in February 2005 I started working full time and my partner was working 12 hours a week. We wanted to put our son in nursery full time and the tax credits people said that for this to happen my partner had to be working 16 hours a week. So he asked his employer and they said it would help them more if he worked 20 hours a week. So we told the TC helpline and they said fine. They asked for estimated earnings and started to pay. Now, my partner was self-employed, they knew that from the word go so, he wouldn't know exactly what he earnt until January 2006. The TC helpline said this wasn't a problem. In June 2005 they wrote to us to say we had been overpaid for 2002/2003. The amount was almost £400. I said at the time that I didn't think this was right and so sent in an appeal disputing the amount. They wrote back 6 weeks later and said no we definitely owed the amounts. So I paid but only 2 months worth. This was because in October they wrote again and said we owed £3500 for 2003/2004. I knew this was wrong and wasn't having it anymore so stopped paying them and sent yet another appeal which was surprise surprise turned down. Since September 2005 they had been harrassing my partner about his earnings. We told them on several occassions that he would not know his final earnings for 2004 until January 2006 (his accountants words not ours). They said as he was self-employed this was fine. When January 2006 came and his accountant sent all the information about what he had earned and how much tax he had paid we rang the TC helpline. They took all the details and said this was fine. Then in April 2006, they wrote and said we owed them £4000 for 2004/2005 and all of the money we had been paid for 2005/2006. We were fuming!!!! So we rang and asked why and guess what they said "oh its because your partner didn't tell us until January what he had earned." Well I hit the roof and this is when my campaign started. As I've said before they have tried to be clever by quoting all these award notices they think I won't have except not only have I got those but I have got bank statements for the periods as well. Even with all this proof though, they still try to make out I am the one in the wrong and that of course there was no wrong doing on their part. This is absolute nonsense! how is anybody meant to know if they are being paid wrongly if every week or every month their payments are different to what it says they should be on the notices? and if you receive up to 10 letters a year like I tend too, how are you meant to keep track of what is going on? as I have said before the whole system is a disgrace and something needs to be done now! |
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