Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments

(asked on 22nd May 2019) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of disputes of tax credit overpayments have (a) been written off and not collected, (b) been reduced and (c) proceeded to collection in full in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 5th June 2019

HMRC does not record data broken down to this level of detail so the information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

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