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SDP ‘Trawl’ - working age also

SamW
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Further to this thread re. pensioners

https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/but/member/3649/viewthread/13423/


It seems that the DWP’s trawl of SDP recipients may well extend to working age claimants also. We’ve had client in a shared lives placement whose SDP was stopped after a decision was made that she was living with others (i.e. her shared lives carer and their family). DWP advised that this decision was made as part of their SDP data matching exercise. I’d imagine that they had cross-referenced their records which showed other people living at the address. But they did not do any further investigation to check the nature of the situation - even though client had been in the same placement when the SDP was awarded in the first place.

Ruth_T
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The SDP trawl has been going on for quite a while.  See https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/11995/

One of the cases we dealt with proved interesting.  Our client repeatedly stated that nobody was caring for him, while the DWP insisted that someone had made a claim for looking after him.  It transpired that one of the client’s close relatives had made a fraudulent claim for CA; the culprit eventually owned up and withdrew their CA claim.

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SamW - 21 September 2018 06:13 PM

Further to this thread re. pensioners

https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/but/member/3649/viewthread/13423/


It seems that the DWP’s trawl of SDP recipients may well extend to working age claimants also. We’ve had client in a shared lives placement whose SDP was stopped after a decision was made that she was living with others (i.e. her shared lives carer and their family). DWP advised that this decision was made as part of their SDP data matching exercise. I’d imagine that they had cross-referenced their records which showed other people living at the address. But they did not do any further investigation to check the nature of the situation - even though client had been in the same placement when the SDP was awarded in the first place.

I saw something very similar recently; MR request went in with “no grounds to supersede”... I wait with baited breath for the outcome