From: Alan Ferris 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Repayment of an overpayment of Working Tax Credit
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:12:02 GMT
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:59:19 GMT, Bearcat
 wrote:

>On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:46:16 +0100, Mogga
> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:06:58 GMT, Bearcat
>> wrote:
>>
>>>I beleive that this is a different situation to that posted above.
>>>
>>>A friend of mine has received a request from HM Revenue & Customs
>>>(HMRC) for the repayment of an overpayment of Working Tax Credit.
>>>
>>>The overpayment has not arisen through either an incorrect application
>>>or due to her not informing them of a change in her circumstances,
>>>but is in fact down to an administration error that HMRC have made.
>>>This error appears to be that they paid her through her wages and then
>>>again directly into her bank account, or at least this is what she has
>>
>>So she didn't notice their error immediately?
>
>From what I can gather she was not aware of the overpayment until she
>received a request for its repayment.

So when they originally wrote stating how the amounts to be paid are
calculated she did not check that the information she had provided was
correct......bit stupid.  Like people not checking their payslip's.