Housing Benefit overpayments

I have received a list of overpayments from LA. they are going back to 2007 /2008.

Can I appeal these or ask for a reason or is it too late.?

Some overpayments may have been recoerable from the tenant and not the RSL.

when were the decisions that the overpayments were existed and recoverable made?

no idea Steven, received via email to tenancy sustainment officer who asked me.

Depends on the date of notification. If properly notified, the normal rules apply on time limits. By “Some overpayments may have been recoverable from the tenant and not the RSL” do you mean that the o/ps were recovered erroneously from the RSL and should have been recovered from the claimant? This is how it sounds.

You can ask for a reason for the o/p, but being so long ago, records may no longer exist.

Regulation 104 allows for overpayments to be off-set by entitlement.

In the past I used this as a mechanism when time-limits expired to reduce o/p.

Useful if it appears o/p are incorrect (some o/p are blatantly wrong)

Need to check if there is a time-limit in force on this route now.