31
Aug
HMRC and DWP Trial is Genuine
HMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are working
together to offer customers the chance to participate in a
voluntary scheme in which they can agree to have deductions taken
from their state benefits and use those deductions to reduce their
tax arrears or tax credit overpayments.
As part of this project a number of customers will be contacted
by letter and invited to take part. Customers will not be contacted
by telephone to take part in the scheme. The scheme is entirely
voluntary.
HMRC wish to emphasise that this is a genuine trial and not a
scam.
However, HMRC has also published details of a new telephone scam
to be aware of. The fraudsters inform taxpayers that they are due a
tax rebate and ask for their bank card details over the phone and
then attempt to take money from the account.
Links: HMRC website HMRC scam
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