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Benefit payments: More than one million universal credit payments cut due to overpaid tax credits
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March 23, 2023
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3:24Now PlayingThe government is cutting benefit payments to some of Britain's poorest families or threatening them with debt collectors in a raid that is "plunging people into poverty".
More than a million people have had their universal credit payments cut over the past year because they were overpaid tax credits in the past by HMRC.
Some of these debts are decades old and in many cases, the claimant was not at fault for the overpayment or aware that the debt existed.
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