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Complaining about child tax credits

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30 Aug 11 #285349 by James53
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Does anybody have any experience of complaining about child tax credits and the stages that you go through.
My child care payments stopped in April because I stopped working. I restarted working in June and I told them of the change or circumstances and I was told that payments would restart. But payments never started.
However the new assessment says that there are no qualifying child care costs.
I have tried many times to talk to the useless twats at HMRC and they simply say they don't know why I am not being paid. So they are really on the ball. Even my MP can't get any sense out of them.
To set the ball rolling I have appealed the 2010/11 assessment and the 2011/12 assessment. I have also lodged a formal complaint about the stopping of payments without notification and their refusal to discuss why they stopped the payments.
Now I don't expect any response having been dealing with these idiots since 2003.
Is the next course of action a mal-administration investigation by the Ombudsman or is there another stage of hoops that I have to jump through when HMRC simply do nothing and apply delying tactics.
I still have full child care costs and no child care tax credits. I also get no CM, David Cameron take note.

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31 Aug 11 #285580 by Sunnychick
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It might be easier to fill apply from scratch- that way they will back date it for 3 months.

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31 Aug 11 #285592 by James53
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I am not sure they will even do that. They simply refuse to discuss anything with me. They say it is with the Compliance office but I have a letter from the compliance office saying that they have completed their investigations and agree that I am owed child care but I disagree with the amount.
If they say that they calculate my child care at £86 per week why don't they pay it.
Two weeks ago I was on the phone argueing with them for 45 minutes. A complete waste of space.

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