Tax Credits: Domestic violence

This is an archived guidance page. There are no live tax credit awards after 5 April 2025. However, some advisers may still need to deal with tax credit appeals, disputes, overpayment debts and complaints. We have moved our main 2024/25 tax credit guidance pages to this archive section as a resource. These pages show our understanding of the rules as they were in 2024/25.

There are special processes that staff should follow where a tax credits claimant indicates that they are in a domestic violence situation.

We previously held detailed guidance on this page about domestic violence, unfortunately this appears to have been withdrawn from the tax credit manuals.

HMRC's debt manual contains some guidance on how HMRC treat tax credit overpayments in cases where domestic violence is notified to them.

Last reviewed/updated 11 May 2025