Petition · past parliament

To make HMRC specifically the Tax Credits department have accessible e-mails.

Closed 113 signatures

What the petition asks

To make HMRC specifically the Tax Credits department, more effective in dealing with customers.
To have specific email accounts, that deal with the different areas of Tax Credits claim ie: Change of circumstances, Complaints, and Compliance.
This allows the claimant to keep track of their documents that they send in, making postal loss virtually impossible, gives the claimant more peace of mind, show's that the email has been received, by the time scale given.
All other benefit departments have this facility, the HMRC should give this to their customers too. Phone calls are expensive, rarely answered, and once answered, invariably the call handler will be confronted with a frustrated claimant, ending in the call be disconnected.

Timeline

18 Jan 2016 Petition opened for signatures
18 Jul 2016 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 113
Status Closed
Opened 18 Jan 2016
Closed 18 Jul 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.