New Media Awards 2008 - Tax Credits Casualties

Tax Credits Casualties

www.taxcreditoverpayment.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Nominated in Community activism category.

Paula Dean started the Tax Credit Casualties as a self-help group for those trapped, like her, in the Government's massive mishandling of the, admittedly well-intentioned, Tax Credits fiasco. The organisation has provided a lifeline for many and invaluable information to use at all stages of the procedure to stay within the law but resist this massively unfair attempt by civil servants to bully us into trying to 'repay' money that we believed we were entitled to.

1 nomination from readers

This organisation has helped and advised thousands of some of the worst off amongst us, who have been traumatised and bullied by faceless bureaucracy into trying to repay sums of money that we can only dream of having available. Paula and a small group of like-minded people have given up hours of their time and battled on our behalf with this bureaucracy, finding out by sheer perseverance what no-one will tell us are our rights in this horrible mess. Tax Credits Casualties is a lifeline and I can't recommend them highly enough for this or any other nomination.

Nominated by Rosina Newton, 27 May 2008

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