There are fairly copious amounts of posting on a number of internet forums regarding the UK Tax Credits Compliance Team. If you look up the addresses given by the Compliance Team on Google Street Maps you may get a shock.
The Compliance Team send out letters that say certain claimants of Tax Credits are 'randomly selected'. This is actually a lie. no one is 'randomly selected'. Claims brought to the attention of the Tax Credit Fraud Team as possibly dodgy, or flagged up by other agencies - such as a local council for example, are the ones picked for assessment.
The victim of the Compliance Team is not told what is suspected to be wrong with their claim, or indeed if they are suspected of wrong doing. Instead the Compliance Team start asking the victim to provide reams of personal information, in an effort to entrap the victim, who is, as I said, at no time told what they are supposed to have done wrong.
The victim is given a time limit to provide the information and threatened with the discontinuation of their Tax Credits or penalties if they refuse to hand over the information. The victim is not told what exactly will be done with any information they provide or who will look at it. Sometimes a victim is asked to ring a phone number where they will be interrogated.
It would also appear that the Tax Credits Compliance Team outsource their investigations, not only to other companies, but also to persons outside the European Union, where the Data Protection Act 1998 and The Human Rights Act 1998 would not apply and where data on the victim, illegal to obtain in the UK or EU would be obtained by persons working in countries abroad where such rules would not apply.
The whole thing is an absolute disgrace and I would urge anyone who feels they have been wrongly or unjustly contacted by The Tax Credits Compliance Team, to lobby their local councillors, MP and the Government, such as writing to the Prime Minister and also contact newspapers and magazines.
The longer the public accept being treated like dirt then the longer this treatment will go on.
The excerpts above are from a letter received by a colleague who was claiming tax credit but who now due to a change in circumstances, no longer does.
Would you entrust your private and personal information to a person who is unable to write a letter in English properly? Yes we all make the odd typing error, but not continuously or all the time like the person who sent the letter to my colleague. It was more like a phishing scam, the letter looked incredibly dodgy and looked like whoever wrote it was totally illiterate.
Another possibility is that the letter was translated in to English by a computer programme who obviously got it wrong. How dare the Tax Credits arm of the HMRC treat customers in such a disrespectful (and downright laughable manner), it is truly appalling and should not be allowed to carry on.
If anyone disagrees with what I am saying here then all I am asking is - would you trust someone who sent you a letter, chock-a-block with spelling mistakes, purportedly from a government agency?
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