Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments

(asked on 30th January 2024) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the overpayment of tax credits in the (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24 financial years.


Answered by
Nigel Huddleston Portrait
Nigel Huddleston
This question was answered on 7th February 2024

Estimates for the overpayments of tax credits in financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24 are not available. The latest statistics on the overpayments of tax credits on a financial year basis are for 2021-22 and are published here: Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: supplement on payments - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Statistics for 2022-23 are due to be published by HMRC in September 2024.

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