Training

Overpayments

Dates:    10/07/2012   


'Excellent tutor. Enormous amount
covered. Not at all boring!'

Training Participant,
Cambridge CAB

This course covers:

  • What an overpayment is, and from whom it is recovered
  • Tips to avoid overpayments
  • Misrepresentations and a ‘failure to disclose a material fact’
  • Decision-making and recovery rules
  • How case law can help in an appeal against recovery
  • When overpayments can be non-recoverable

By the end of the course you will be able to:

  • Understand the process of decision making
  • Identify the relevant law for overpayments
  • Present a legal argument against an overpayment recovery decision
  • Apply the law in your arguments against recovery

Please note this course does not cover tax credit overpayments, which are covered in our Tax credits essentials course, nor social fund overpayments, which are covered in our course on The social fund.

 

Online booking: Book this course online

Course tutors include: Daphne Hall | Essie Rashidschi | Jo Silcox | Martin Williams | Michael Chambers | Tamara Moreau

SRA CPD credits: 5

Course level: Intermediate / Advanced


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