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Evilgoat:
And on the BBC news front page :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5032170.stm

Rangie3.0LtrDan:
They should go back to paying it through the income support system as there were hardly ever any overpayments, and if there were you could usually trace where it came from, i.e. claimant didnt give correct information, or it was inputted wrong by a particular person!

V8MoneyPit:

--- Quote from: "Evilgoat" ---And on the BBC news front page :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5032170.stm
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But the government says once new measures are "fully implemented", it expects to reduce overpayments in future years by around a third.
Unquote.

I simply cannot fathom why people are overpaid in the first place. And if they are able to reduce the overpayments by a third, they should be perfectly capable of reducing it to nil.

Fine, if people have made false claims, they should pay it back. But I find it hard to believe that all the people who have made comments on here have made false claims, either knowingly or otherwise. It can only be poor adminstration of the claims.

I had problems with the CSA a few years ago and all this smacks of the exact same incompetence. They were suggesting I should pay nearly 2/3rds of my income for the upkeep of one child  :shock:
I went to huge lengths to find out how it was calculated. This wasn't easy as they don't give you all the information on the statements. But I eventually worked out exactly what I should have been paying and told them what I was going to do. I set up a standing order, rather than the direct debit they wanted and started paying. After threats of court action from them and many letters that I found, quite frankly, insulting I managed to get them to withdraw their claims and accept that I was right and they were wrong.
Never had a problem since.

rollazuki:
Its like bob696 says......we are a tiny sector of society, and have had all this bad news about wftc's. I do wonder what percentage country wide has been screwed over. Just another hidden statistic I guess.

Thrasher:
sob sob sob ... why oh why is this form written in Klingonee???

They don't make it easy to fill in AT ALL. And the thing that gets my goat more is that these are the same people I send my s*dding self assesment in to - WHY CAN'T THEY JUST LOOK THERE?!?!?!

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