TCTM06101 - Claims and Notification
Identifying the date of claim
The Tax Credits (Claims and Notifications) Regulations 2002, Regs. 2, 3, 4
The date of claim means the date the claim is received or made at an appropriate office.
Appropriate office means:
- Comben House, Farriers Way, Netherton, Merseyside, or
- any other office specified in writing by the Board.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was previously treated as an appropriate office in its own right but has now been removed. We can therefore now only accept details from DWP offices in specific circumstances when it has been specified in writing either to staff or customers. For example this will happen in certain projects such as during the Lone Parent Obligation migration where Job Centre Plus complete a deemed claim on behalf of claimants moving over from child dependency allowance to CTC or where certain initiatives such as TCTP have been approved and limited details may be accepted.
The date of a claim for a paper form will be the date the claim is received by the appropriate office. (For electronic claims made at the office it is the date the claim is made in the office).
Paper claims sent via the Rapid Data Capture (RDC) process will be stamped at the RDC processing centre on the day they are received. The date of receipt will be the date of claim.
Claims, which are made electronically via the Internet, will be treated as being made on the day the claimant submits the claim to an office of HM Revenue & Customs.
