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How HMRC uses debt enforcement powers, debt collection agencies and what happens if you live abroad when you do not pay your tax bill.
Benefit overpayments - how they happen, your responsibilities, making repayments to DWP Debt Management, appeal an overpayment decision, Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA)
Tell the office dealing with your benefit straight away if: you think…
You may have to pay the money back if you’ve been overpaid. For example,…
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) can recover benefit…
How you pay back the overpayment depends on: whether you’re making…
Use this service if you need to repay debt to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Use this service if you need to repay money to the Department for Work and…
Penrith Probation Office, is a probation contact centre, within the North West region.
When debt payments can be taken from your wages, changing how much you pay, paying it off early, and reporting a change to your circumstances
Guidance for creditors applying to take a debt recovery step, cancel or amend the ‘breathing space’, or have a debt removed.
How to prioritise and reduce your debts, and where to get free debt advice
Debts you owe (for example court fines, rent or Council Tax) can be deducted from your benefits – sometimes called third party deductions or Fuel Direct
Reclaim Statutory Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Parental Bereavement Pay and Shared Parental Pay, find out about Small Employers’ Relief and get help if you cannot afford payments.
Get help to make a Time to Pay arrangement if you are an individual or business who owes a debt to HMRC.
Tax credit overpayments - repaying tax credits, repayment methods, what to do if you cannot repay
What happens if your company cannot pay its debts and is given a court judgment, statutory demand or winding-up order by your creditors
The Payment Exception Service is a way for people who do not have a bank account to collect benefit or pension payments. It replaces the Simple Payment service
Update: 23 February 2018 - Information for employees, sub-contractors, creditors and suppliers of Carillion in liquidation
Statutory demands are a formal way of asking for a debt to be paid - get the forms to send, cancel or set aside a statutory demand.
This briefing sets out HMRC's approach to collecting tax debts and customer support as the UK emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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