Recovering Housing Benefit Overpayments:
Workshop
The challenge:
Housing Benefit overpayments continue to cost local authorities a significant amount of money and with the ongoing roll out of UC, this legacy debt will become even harder to recovery.
Overpayment Recovery Workshop:
This workshop is designed to help you maximise both recovery and subsidy and is an ideal pre-cursor for initiatives such as the self -employed review.
During this workshop we'll take an in-depth look at the end to end debt recovery process and discuss how to apply best practice and key legislation, to help you recover Housing Benefit debt effectively and maximise subsidy.
The Agenda:
Identifying and Classifying Overpayments
- How overpayments occur
- How overpayments are calculated
- How overpayments are classified
Deciding Whether an Overpayment is Recoverable
- Recoverable overpayments
- Non-recoverable overpayments
- Case law
- Choosing whether to recover
- The subsidy implications
- Diminution of capital rule
Recovering Overpayments
- Notification and right of appeal
- Methods of recovery
- Rate of recovery
Enforcing an Overpayment
- Enforcement (County Court)
- Limitations Act
- Enforcements: including warrants, attachments of earnings etc.
