This morning I reblogged Mike’s post from over at Vox Political on the government’s use of debt collection agencies against people, who have been overpaid tax credits due to mistakes by the Inland Revenue, ‘Tax credit debt collection is a double-edged attack on the poor’. Many people have experienced problems with the authorities claiming that they have mistakenly overpaid benefit claimants, and threatening them with legal action. One of those, who have been a victim of this is Leoni al-Ajeel, one of the commenters on Mike’s blog. In her comment on Mike’s post, she gives her account of her struggle with the authorities, who repeatedly claimed that they had overpaid her. She writes
I also have debt with Tax credits, I received a letter saying I owe them £997 and I must pay it back. This is not the only letter I got, I got letter from council saying I…
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back in 2004 I had bought a house and was told I was entitled to working tax credits .but could I get it ? I was shortly there after diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and had to pack in work and my was house was repossessed .I never received a single penny from tax credits even though I was told I was entitled to it .Can I still get the money that I was entitled to back then ?
debt collectors who will charge exhortationaye rates then bailiffs at £300 a time ( New price hike ),,,more super prisons or FEMA like work camps needed
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