TAX NEWS: Tax credits 'wrongly paid to migrants'. By Dan Martin
Tax credits which could be worth millions of pounds have been paid to immigrants who were not entitled to receive them, the BBC has claimed.
An Inland Revenue document obtained by the broadcaster under the Freedom of Information Act suggested that between April 2003 and December 2004 2,700 migrants were wrongly paid the credits because benefit office workers were instructed to ignore any irregularities in claims.
The only requirement was a national insurance (NI) number.
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2006/7 overpayments magically disappear
Of course with no clawback of tax credits for 2006/7 unless your income changes by more than £25,000 as opposed to the £2,500 it used to be ....one assumes the government will be claiming a major success next year...because the overpayments figure will have magically dropped.......BUT in reality the "overpayments" will still have been made but will no longer be called that...and possibly will not even be quantified!!
Scandalous!