Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments

Sammy Wilson
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in (a) England and Wales, (b) Northern Ireland and (c) the UK received overpayments of each type of tax credit in each of the last three years.

Jane Kennedy
Estimates of the numbers of families with tax credits awards, including overpayments and underpayments by country, based on final family circumstances and incomes, for the years 2004-05 and 2005-06 are available in Table 1.1 in the HMRC publication “Child and Working Tax Credits. Finalised Awards. Supplement on Payments. Geographical Analyses”, for each relevant year. These publications are available on the HMRC website at:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/personal-tax-credits/cwtc-geog-stats.htm

Information for over and under payments in 2006-07 will not be available until May 2008.

Information broken down by country for each type of tax credit is not available.

Sammy Wilson
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many people in the UK received overpayments of more than £2,000 in each type of tax credit in each of the last three years;

(2) how many people received overpayments of more than £5,000 of each type of tax credit in the United Kingdom in each of the last three years.

Jane Kennedy
Information on the number of tax credit awards, by size of over and under payment in 2004-05 and 2005-06, is produced in Table 3 of the HMRC publications “Child and Working Tax Credits Statistics. Finalised Annual Awards. Supplement on Payments” for each relevant year. These publications are available on the HMRC website at:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/personal-tax-credits/cwtc-quarterly-stats.htm

Information for over and under payments in 2006-07 will not be available until May 2008.

Information broken down by size of over-or underpayment by each type of tax credit is not available.