THE WEE COUNTY'S MP is has demanded Prime Minister Theresa May makes sure Concentrix victims are compensated in full.

MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh's call follows the publication of a report by the National Audit Committee yesterday, which highlighted endemic problems with the administration of Tax Credits went back as far as 2014.

It left thousands of innocent families, including in Clackmannanshire, without vital payments for no reason or advance warning.

Concentrix was contracted by the HMRC to provide additional capacity and analysis to review and correct Tax Credit payments.

The Ochil and South Perthshire SNP representative said: “This is a damning report on the work of Concentrix and the government’s failure to properly manage this contract.

“Not only has the UK government grossly overestimated the level of fraud in the Tax Credits system, but the report lays bare that Concentrix has systematically failed to properly administer the system as long ago as 2014 when they were consistently failing to meet their performance targets.

“It’s now clear that the severe problems that my constituents saw last summer were a culmination of years of mismanagement that HMRC and treasury ministers completely failed to adequately address.”

The report, published on Tuesday, January 17, found the company stopped or amended Tax Credit awards in around 12 per cent of the cases it investigated, but almost a third of these decisions were overturned following mandatory reconsideration.

The MP said the vast majority of victims had received no compensation and given the “total and utter failure” of treasury ministers, the PM must step in and intervene.