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My younger brother would like to appeal for some dosh, but not from forumites.
He has had continuing problems with the Working Tax Credits people for the last year and at the end of the discussions and letter-writing, they said it was O.K. he would not have to pay the WTC back (considering he was and still is, on basic pay and working six days a week for Saga, taking home about £800 a month, with his rent at just over £600, then his other bills (gas, electric, water, council tax, food, phone bill, petrol etc. etc. which he was quite relieved about.
He had a letter yesterday saying they were wrong last year and now he must pay back £2,400 by the end of October.
This is just plain silly - that is 3 months wages; the small amount of housing benefit and council tax help have all gone, so would he have to go to prison ?
He's not a benefit cheat, he wants to work, but at every step, he is getting shafted by this Government department.
What Ministers say and what their departments do, are two completely different things. To me, the people who work at these departments are worse than bloody useless - incompetance doesn't come near it.
It is really stressing him out and all the people at the WTC office say, is "not my problem".
Roger