child benefit
 

just wondering if people are still getting there child benefit paid into a uk bank account even though they are living in Canada..or have people just told these people they have immigrated and lost the money???

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No comment.

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You can get UK child benefit even without having children in the UK? Where do I sign up?

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You're joking? Right?:huh::ohmy:

Can you say fraud? :mad:

I knew you could.

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We informed them when we left.

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Tell them before you leave the UK - it took them about a year and a half to finally deal with my repeated requests from Canada for payment to stop. If you look in the archive, others have found the same. It seems to be easier to get it done by phone from the UK - letters and emails from Canada were routinely ignored!

As we've seen today, they're not the sharpest sticks in the bunch - sort it whilst it's still a cheap local call.

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Of course you may not want to be involved in UK Child Benefit at all...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm

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No comment.

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Bazz,

Yes you can get Child Benefit and Tax Credits paid by our thieving government. If you reside within the EEC and your husband works in England so long as he pays tax, like most of the immigrants now in the UK then you are entitled to these things and probably more. It is well documented that most people mainly Eastern Europeans are now able to send their children to private schools as they are receiving hundreds £'s extra each month.

After yesterday's fiasco with the child benefit I just cannot wait to leave this country, we are heading to Kelowna next year, OH secured job so CANADA here we come:thumbsup:

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Actually getting them to stop paying me was harder than you think!::curse:

Linda

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Please tell me this is a joke?! What do you mean by 'lost the money' ?
Please advise them you are going - no further comment by me either.

:lol: I'm sure I got an extra two payments - long after I told them I was off - but it was so complicated to cancel I just didn't have the energy to try and make contact from this side. That's me committing fraud too, probably ;)

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I rang them the month before we left and was told that it was too early to inform them and would I please get back in touch the day before I was leaving.
I explained that I needed to get as much as possible organised before the day I was flying:curse: " sorry, but you really will need to ring the day before"

I rang them the day before, and the next month, and the next month and the next month....and on it went. :curse::curse:

Linda

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It it? Where?

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OMG! What staggering incompetence on their part! WFT do they do all day? Oh yeah, lose the details of some 25 million child benefit recipients and their families bank details, date of birth, bank account details :curse::curse:

At least the director of HMCR did the right thing and quit his job!

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Tell me about it - it took forever to get them to stop paying it to us, that was despite telling them before and after on numerous occasions that we were leaving permanently.

To add insult to injury, they even wrote to us at our Canadian address to tell us what our new "award" was going to be - everytime I hear about how overworked the civil servants in the UK are it makes me sick :frown:

Yes are know there are competent ones, it's just that they are in the minority :eek:

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I just googled "immigrants send children to private school +"child benefit" " and guess what the 1st relevant hit was, the Daily Mail :lol:

link here

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ONE MILLION POUNDS A MONTH. That's like every person in the UK paying 1.7p of their own money EVERY MONTH. I'm scandalized.

Yeah, it's worth working in a different country hundreds of miles away for an extra £33 a week.

The great thing about that article is that they're doing nothing wrong, it's all completely above board and legal, yet they're trying to portray it as if they're somehow being snide and underhand.

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:ohmy::ohmy::ohmy:

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Sorry if I have now swayed of the subject but it is still about our HMRC.

The funny thing about all this is that alot of the taxpayers are now facing financial problems due to our dear HMRC's incompetence as they now demand back alot of the monies paid out to British families. :mad:

I myself are one of them -they put in their computer that my husband works 40hrs pw for no salary - therefore they are now demanding that I pay back £3000 paid from 2006/2007. When I wrote to them they stated that 'I should have known I was being paid to much'. Our tax and child benefit system is the most complex in the world know one knows what they are entitled too! Furthermore they themselves don't even understand it however, they will not admit they were completely wrong on this matter.:curse:

I am not sure what I make of the article written as at the time the country was disgusted but either way 1. It can cause alot of problems ie. anger, discrimination etc. or 2. As it is completely above board and legal in the way of - if any immigrants work in this country and pay taxes then they are legally entitled to benefits, unfortunately this really has created alot of problems and caused alot of discrimination against them.

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Tracie, you are new here so I'll just point out that this stuff has been done to death many a time on this board. If, for some strange reason, you're interested in discovering more, please use the search function. "Bigot" might be a useful keyword.

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Sorry, but if you are being rude then there is no need for it - I was replying to post regarding child benefit which went on about the incompetence of the HMRC.

New to the forum or not I thought I was having a discussion with a few people- clearly not, therefore I will shut up then!

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No, I wan't meaning to be rude. It's just that we've been over this so many times. Start something fresh, maybe about marmite.

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Marmite ........... spread it on your toast or I prefer to eat marmite crisps :D

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HOLD on
Quote " is also eligible for £296 a month in tax credits because he has two children and his family's total income is £38,000 a year."

We dont earn that and we get £28mth tax credits, i think something is wrong somewhere :curse::curse::curse:

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They must have been pretty desperate to run this story as it is. They must have been terribly disappointed that this family was frittering away this money on their child's education and English lessons. Contrast with the usual tales of British benefit scroungers spending it all on booze, fags, Sky TV and playstations.