The Treasury has announced a series of tools for HMRC improve tax credit debt recovery – including extended use of debt collection agencies (DCAs). The summer Budget confirmed plans to make the tax credit system fairer and to enhance powers to recover tax credit debt by, for example, expanding the enforcement of this debt. These measures include an extension to the use of DCAs to target tax credit debt in excess of £3,000 that has already passed the Extending Tax Credits debt collection process. The Treasury said HMRC will also recover overpayments of working tax credit from payments of child tax credit, and recover overpayments of child tax credit from payments of working tax credit.....Read more here