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Manual Payments for Tax Credits

Question 1

Could you please tell me how many tax credit manual payments were made during the month of May 2005.

Answer

Around 43,000 direct manual payments were made in May 2005.

Question 2

Could you also tell me what proportion of payments were made manually each month since April 2004 and what the cost of the manual payment process is.

Answer
The proportion of direct payments (%), excluding payments via employers, made manually since April 2004 is shown in the table below

Apr-040.27%
May-040.16
Jun-040.15%
Jul-040.19
Aug-040.20%
Sep-040.22
Oct-040.32%
Nov-040.33
Dec-040.24%
Jan-050.30
Feb-050.30%
Mar-050.28
Apr-050.36%
May-050.30
Jun-050.27%
Jul-050.28

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