Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit: Overpayments
(asked on 27th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) Working Tax Credit and (b) Child Tax Credit claims in (i) total and (ii) as a percentage of total claims in each of have incurred an overpayment in each of the last five years.
The table below summarises the number of personal tax credits overpayments as a percentage of all personal tax credit claims for the most recent 5 years for which data is available. HMRC are unable to break down the figures to Working Tax Credit or Child Tax Credit because a case may involve both.
Estimated number of Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit claims and overpaid claims between 2013/14 to 2017/18 | |||||
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| 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
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Estimated number of Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit claims (000s) | 5,564 | 5,406 | 5,271 | 4,988 | 4,600 |
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Total number of overpaid Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit claims (000s) | 1,685 | 1,535 | 1,396 | 1,572 | 1,445 |
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Overpaid Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit awards as a % of all Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit awards | 30% | 28% | 26% | 32% | 31% |
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Source: These figures have been taken from HMRC’s annually published Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: finalised annual awards, supplement on payments for 2013/14 – 2017/18, which can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-tax-credits-statistics