‘HMRC gave me £775,000 by mistake – and it’s turned into a nightmare’
A woman who woke up to find more than three-quarters of a million pounds had been deposited in her bank account by HMRC has described how she spent a year waiting for it to realise its mistake and reclaim the money and worrying about what would happen when it did.
In August 2020, Helen Peters*, a self-employed mother of a five-year-old, looked at her bank statement and found that instead of being mildly overdrawn, a £774,839.39 Bacs payment from the Revenuetaxman had sent her account very much into the black.
Peters said the experience was “amazing, incredible, bizarre” but that it quickly became “a nightmare.”
“It was like something out of a Hollywood film, and after I had got over the shock I just assumed that someone would realise that they
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