Welcome to Tax Credit Casualties

Welcome to Tax Credit Casualties (TCC), founded in January 2005 in response to the shambles of Child Tax Credits, Working Tax Credits, and the overpayment bills blighting peoples lives. This website aims to bring all the issues and information you might need together in one place, in as logical and simple a way as possible.

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Now that we've had a change of Government, it's more important than ever to join in with our campaign for an amnesty of all non-fradulent Tax Credit overpayments. Whereas Labour weren't listening, both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have stated some intention to sort out the Tax Credit mess.

With both Parties joined in our coalition Government, we have no reason to believe that they will not make good on their promises. Over 1 million overpaid Tax Credit claimants a year are hoping that justice will finally be done, and that this vile system becomes what it should have been, had it been properly planned and implemented in the first place!

But, with huge overpayment bills once again dropping through people's letterboxes, it's a harsh reminder that politicians say one thing when they want to be elected and do something totally different once they are in office! Let us not forget that Tax Credit Casualties met with the currently elected bunch in London when they were in opposition ... and received what we took to be fairly strong support!

Decent, hard-working people (and their children, remember!) in this country are still having their lives demolished by a system that simply doesn't care about collateral damage. Here is just one example, posted on this website earlier in the year (August 2011):

"Well what a shock when we got a letter to say we have been overpaid by £8018 from the start of March 09. I declared all income from that date. I was on Job seekers allowance and my wife was working full time, they were provided with payslips and P60's but they still insisted we qualified for Working Tax Credits, so on that basis we accepted the payments. After I found partime employment in May 2010 I informed them of change of earnings immediately via the telephone and was sent a new award notice which was adjusted as they say to the correct level.

In July 2011 the letter arrived saying they overpaid us and we should never have received any WTC in the first place".

Is that really acceptable Prime Minister? Deputy Prime Minister? Chancellor of the Exchequer? Frontbenchers? Backbenchers? Be ashamed of yourselves! Be very, very ashamed!! Yes, it was the 'last lot' that did it ... but it's YOU lot that can stop it, and stop it you should. Right now. Or do you also accept the commonly held misconception that Tax Credit Overpayment victims are 'scroungers who should get a job' ?

Mr. Cameron & Mr. Clegg ... every year, more than a million of the people that you accepted a duty of care over when you took Office are having their lives ruined by systemic maladministration at HMRC and YOUR failure to address the problem.

The visitors to this site who've had an overpayment and haven't written to their MP must also accept some responsibility for this financial rape continuing. Believe me, if MP's were getting a million letters a year about Tax Credit Overpayments, things would have changed years ago! So if you're guilty as charged, do something about it!

A very easy way that everyone can help our campaign, and other overpayment victims too, is to put up a couple of posters about this site. Even easier, there are share buttons at the bottom of every page on the site so that you can let all of your friends know that we're here, whether they're on Facebook, Twitter, Buzz or any other site. So please spread the word!

It just takes that little bit of effort ... and it makes you feel good, too. The more 'members' we have, the bigger our voice if we should have to continue our campaign in a big way.

Here's to change and success for Tax Credit Casualties everywhere!