A man is having sleepless nights - because he can't stop the Inland Revenue showering him with money!

Andrew Doyle, 41, of Park Street, Westcliff, has been receiving working tax credit to which he is not entitled for the past three months.

He and partner Marion Smith, 40, have tried five times to cancel the payments of £41, £11, and £85 for July, August and September, without success.

And Mr Doyle was worried the payments would keep adding up until the Inland Revenue sent him a huge bill.

He said: "I keep telling them I don't want it but they say it's mine. It's like that tax credit advert on telly where a voice says 'Pick it up, it's yours' - except it isn't mine at all.

"You are supposed to have aggro getting money off them, not giving it back. I wish I had never claimed it in the first place now."

Miss Smith said: "Every time they've checked their computers and realised he shouldn't be getting anything. They always say it will be stopped, but when I get my pay slip it is there again. We've had enough."

The Inland Revenue promised to investigate.