Personal Tax Credits: Finalised Award Statistics - Error and Fraud Statistics

Error and fraud statistics are based on the Error and Fraud Analytical Programme - an annual statistical enquiry run by HMRC designed to measure levels of error and fraud in finalised tax credit awards.

Further details of HMRC's measures to tackle error and fraud were published on 14 July 2008 in the document Reducing error and fraud in Tax Credits.

• Child and Working Tax Credits Error and Fraud Statistics 2009-10 (PDF 89K)
• Child and Working Tax Credits Error and Fraud Statistics 2008-09 (PDF 71K)
• Child and Working Tax Credits Error and Fraud Statistics 2007-08 (PDF 70K) - revised 20 July 2010
• Child and Working Tax Credits Error and Fraud Statistics 2007-08 (PDF 77K)
• Child and Working Tax Credits Error and Fraud Statistics 2005-06 and 2006-07 (PDF 109K)
• Child and Working Tax Credits Error and Fraud Statistics 2004-05 (PDF 104K) - reissued 29 October 2007
• Child and Working Tax Credit error and fraud statistics 2003-04

Revised

Each set of Error and Fraud Statistics are based on the results of the Error and Fraud Analytical Programme as at the May a year after the end of the tax year that the awards relate to, even at this point occasionally not all cases have been completed.

A revised set of estimates are produced the following year, alongside the next years report, and if the central estimate for the error and fraud favouring the claimant has changed by more then 0.2 percentage points then a revised publication will be published.

• 2008-09 - the revised estimates showed that no revision was required.
• 2007-08 - a revised report was published as the error and fraud favouring the claimant had risen from 8.6 percent to 9.0 percent.