Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments
Treasury
Written answers and statements, 13 October 2008
Jennifer Willott (Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Work & Pensions; Cardiff Central, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many TC846 forms his Department has received disputing a tax credit overpayment in each (a) year and (b) month since tax credits were established; and if he will make a statement.
Stephen Timms (Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; East Ham, Labour)
For information up to and including 2007-08, I refer the hon. Member to the answers my predecessor gave Danny Alexander on
The corresponding Information for 2008-09 is:
| Households | |
| Month 2008 | Number of newly disputed overpayments |
| April | 10,500 |
| May | 5,800 |
| June | 8,500 |
| July | 17,800 |
| August | 12,100 |
| September | 19,500 |