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Why am I not surprised?

Dan_Manville
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Mental health & welfare rights service - Wolverhampton City Council

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I ran into an overpayment recently that had been overturned; most of it had already been offset against arrears before a favourable revision and it became blatantly obvious that there was no robust procedure in place to reimburse the offended party.

So I got curious and asked DWP, sadly their reply did not surprise me; there are no processes downstream of a section 74 offset to make sure they don’t overrecover, or reimburse monies already recovered, is what I take from this.

Quelle surprise!

[ Edited: 21 Sep 2017 at 10:43 am by Dan_Manville ]