How can the taxman send two cds with all the details of twenty five million people by post non recor

I had the letter a few days ago, saying that I%26#039;m one of the affected people, I just can%26#039;t believe that, what do you think about that?, do you believe that?, and telling me not to worry if I recieve any letter about borrowings or any bill that are not mine, saying that I will not have to pay anything, of course I wouldn%26#039;t!, they should give some compensation for that to all the people, see if next time happens again, and also, why they didn%26#039;t loose the information of people who have to repay the tax credits back?, would be better, not?, I think they lose what they want only, sounds really bad to me, I don%26#039;t believe that, seriusly, it%26#039;s a con

How can the taxman send two cds with all the details of twenty five million people by post non recorded?

Because they are idiots

How can the taxman send two cds with all the details of twenty five million people by post non recorded?

Too many people treat data like it%26#039;s just numbers, not a list of someone%26#039;s life and a chance to take advantage.

Sad.

How can the taxman send two cds with all the details of twenty five million people by post non recorded?

Well what do you expect from this shower of a Government

How can the taxman send two cds with all the details of twenty five million people by post non recorded?

It wasn%26#039;t just stuck in a post box.

They used a courier for internal mail; TNT. *They* lost it.

How can the taxman send two cds with all the details of twenty five million people by post non recorded?

Cos they have ordinary people working there, who are liable to make mistakes just as normal human beings.

How can the taxman send two cds with all the details of twenty five million people by post non recorded?

It has been confirmed that it was NOT sent by post. It was sent by TNT courier but there was no tracking on the parcel. That is how they come to lose the discs.

How can the taxman send two cds with all the details of twenty five million people by post non recorded?

The same way the DVLA in Northern Ireland can lose 2 discs with over 7,500 drivers details on them. Last known to have been at Coventry sorting office on route to Swansea !!!! xx

How can the taxman send two cds with all the details of twenty five million people by post non recorded?

I had the same letter, mine also says %26quot;the disks are probably mislaid, in a office somwhere%26quot;

no sh1t sherlock !

How can the taxman send two cds with all the details of twenty five million people by post non recorded?

I just don%26#039;t BELIEVE it!.........not the loss of the CDs but how badly structured your question is

How can the taxman send two cds with all the details of twenty five million people by post non recorded?

First of all, its not Tax Credit information which has been lost, but the details of people who claim Child Benefit. The disks only contained copies of the information - Child Benefit records are still on HMRC%26#039;s computer system.

The disks were sent by internal mail, probably because the manager who asked for them to be sent did not specify to the clerical assistant that they were to be sent by recorded post. HMRC%26#039;s internal mail system means that all the outgoing post to other departments is sent daily to a central sorting office. There, all the post is sorted and sent on to the other departments, tax offices, etc. This centre handles thousands of bits of post a day, so its not surprising things get lost. If the disks were in a normal internal envelope, there would be nothing to alert anyone as to what the envelope contained. For all anyone knows, it could have arrived at the NAO and be lost somewhere in there.

I am nto sure why you think it%26#039;s a con - what is the benefit to anyone in HMRC to lose this data and get all this publicity?