Tax credits
When these things first hit the streets, me and the missus got a letter informing us we were due £470 pcm in benefits. We thought this was pretty cool, not because I was earning £30k at the time, but because the missus was about to drop sprog #2, so we kinda figured that's why we were getting a benefit.

We couldn't believe, however, that someone, somewhere, wanted to pay us best part of £500 per month for no good reason, so we phoned to check up - several times - many many times in fact! And we wrote. And we phoned again. "Yes, yes, please stop bothering us, you're entitled to all that money."

One last time I tried. "Oh Sorry! You don't deserve a penny - give it back. Now."

Long story short, the numpties in the end realised their error and tried to reclaim £1.5k off us in overpaid benefits. Because we'd come clean - and had records of who we'd spoken to and when - we got let off. Unlike the majority of the thieving chav twunts who tried to cover up the overpayments they'd recieved, then got all sh*tty in the press when the government asked for it all back.

Lovely, new carpets and a camcorder before baby was born. Thank you Tax Credit peeps.
(__spc__, Sat 27 Oct 2007, 20:32, 1 reply)

same
we owe 2k due to an error when we resubmitted for a new tax year, even though we filled in the claim forms then to be told we didnt need to resubmitt them in, then to be told we did then didnt etc this went on for over a year, by which time - once corrected we now owe a nice sum of money.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Sat 27 Oct 2007, 21:25, closed)