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Concentrix: 'Suicidal calls' made to tax credits firm

2016-09-26 01:57:45| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Staff working for a firm used by the government to cut fraudulent benefit payments were told to keep "suicidal" clients on the phone until police arrived at their homes, the BBC learns.

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Tax credits firm Concentrix will not have contract renewed

2016-09-13 22:13:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Concentrix, the US firm accused of incorrectly withdrawing tax credits from hundreds of claimants, will not have its contract renewed, HMRC says.

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Tax credits mum 'falsely accused of marriage to dead man'

2016-09-13 01:06:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

A teenage mother had her child tax credits stopped after she was wrongly registered as being married to a dead 74-year-old man, the BBC learns.

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Tax Credits Double Projections Of Solar Growth in One U.S. Market

2016-07-11 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: A new market report estimates that U.S. rooftop solar in the Mid-Atlantic region will likely increase exponentially over the next five years thanks to extended federal tax credits. The Business Energy Investment Tax Credit that Congress unexpectedly renewed last December gives homeowners and developers 30 percent back on solar panel installations and other renewable energy investments through 2019. The program could help solar installation growth in the Mid-Atlantic reach over 9,000 megawatts by...

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