# Debt Product Testing Stage 3

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [H M Revenue & Customs](/buyers/h-m-revenue-customs/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Ipsos MORI](/contract-winners/ipsos-mori/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £20,000
- Tender value: £20,000
- Award date: 3 December 2015
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 8 December 2015
- Contract end: 3 March 2016
- Stage: awarded
- Notice ID: f4ae741e-9173-4089-8270-dd7f57cd2b17-89323
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-61f22bb3-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

Assignment under the Market Research Framework MR130001 Tax credits is being replaced by Universal Credit \(UC\) so that eventually all tax credits customers will either have moved to Universal Credit or left the tax credits regime entirely\. A large proportion of tax credits customers will have outstanding tax credits debts - When a customer moves to UC, HMRC will transfer any outstanding tax credits debt to UC for recovery\. The transfer of tax credits debts to Universal Credit is new and new IT and products are being developed to support the process\. • To test the draft web based guidance with a range of tax credits customers, to determine whether they might prove effective in driving the desired behaviour\. • To explore customers responses to the resurrection of older \(historic\) debt for recovery and whether the guidance satisfies their need for further information\. • To explore whether customers understand how HMRC is treating their debts as individuals \(as opposed to joint\) debts and how HMRC have treated these debts where the household has subsequently split up\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f4ae741e-9173-4089-8270-dd7f57cd2b17-89323)