Overpaid by tax credits and moving overseas??

[wheezie]

Was overpaid �2500 by credits. am moving overseas in few months for good. Wil they be able to trace me to pay it back? anyone else done this??

[river]

Pay up like everyone else has to you ponce

[darlingnc]

lol @ river!

[river]

Why thank you..maybe I could have worded that better but I think thats quite a straight approach. You owe you pay.

Tha tax office completley cocked up my pay and so now they are going to be taking an additional �2000 from my wages that they forgot to take before.

Wheezie, pay up honey!

[mrs_overall]

I'd ask whose fault it is that you were overpaid. If it's the fault of the tax credit office you could tell them you're going abroad for good , can't afford to repay it and ask them to write it off
If the overpayment is your fault then legally and morally you should pay it back.You say you are leaving for good. You don't know what may happen in the future and you may come back for a visit. Do you want to spend your life looking over your shoulder?

[warpig3]

Once you move abroad you will be out of juristriction and they will not pursue through the courts. It is likely after a time that this will then be written off. However if you return to the UK within a certain timescale (poss 6 years though not sure) they may write it on again if they are notified you are back (notification being either through benefits or other claims).

Personally, if I knew they were paying me extra and I still accepted it I would feel morally obliged to pay it back. On the other hand, I know of someone who has had dealings with these people and they have on occasions sent two conflicting letters on the same day, one stating that they owed him money, the other stating that he owed them money. After many telephone calls they were unable to supply sufficient evidence/statements to support either letter and he hasn't heard anything since, that was approx 6 months ago and the sum was around �650.