Gordon Brown's flagship policy still crap

I see that:

"The overpayment of tax credits is still continuing at a "dismaying" level, says a report from a committee of MPs.

The Public Accounts Committee says overpayments, which are then clawed back from claimants, are still running at £1bn a year.

The MPs said the overpayments were a burden on hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable people in society.

Overpayments amounted to £7.3bn between 2003 and 2007 with nearly £3bn likely to be written off as unrecoverable. "

Well done Gordon Brown, the man who designed and introduced this overly bureaucratic inflexible and ill-conceived system. Well done indeed... You can read more about Tax Credits here.