Thanks happyolddog I sent the letter on the 20th December i should have a reply soon

I wrote this letter in reply to a Demand for £1,853 over payment of housing benefit. Comments welcom Housing benefit blunder so once again poor people on low incomes are subjected to the effects of beurocratic blunders with far reaching consequences for there all ready stretched finances Should I have known that an over payment was made ? You inform that you have made a mistake 23 months after the mistake was made Am I psychic? No the onus was with you not me I trusted you with the information I supplied you. To make the correct calculations and decisions with the information you requested, to work out my housing benefit claim, As this is the service that you offer and require me to use should I wish to claim housing or council tax benefit? As I am a gardener and not employed by Powys county council, I would not know where to start when it comes to working out housing and council tax benefit, or working tax credit, And where do you imagine I can get that amount of money from when the reason I claimed benefit was because of low earnings I shall of course contact my MP raising this issue with him and endeavour to find out how many claims this involves or is this isolated mistake with what I can only describe as a shoddy and totally inept service that treats people like this I totally disagree with your letter suggesting that I should have been aware or able to somehow know, that an over payment had been made by you. Please find attached DMA01 And in disputing this I also dispute that I should have to make a repayment

Hi from izzyheskint this makes for interesting reading, DWP - Resource centre - Information for local authorities - Publications - Guidance and manuals - HB/CTB Overpayments Guide i have been over paid HB to the sum of £1,800 the council have admited they made the mistake by not including my working tax credit in my HB claim, this claim was made in january 2005 they informed me of this mistake in November 2006. The council now use what they call data match and that's how they noticed this. I am disputing this. Quote- Powys county council Letter Although we made the error the benefit law says that we can ask for the money back However the law also says that this can only be done in certain circumstances. the point that we must look at is whether you could reasonably have been expected to realize that an overpayment was taking place. As for a section on local authority and benefits i think someone has to start a thread for this, I am new to this site and still finding my way around Izzyheskint:)

Hello, my name is david this is my first thread and i could do with some help my main gripe is with the abbey bank to re claim unfair charges, I have bank statments If i've got this right do i write just a normal letter to abbey asking for the charges back/before anything to do with the data protection act, As i have had default of payment notices served, By Debt management & recovery services ltd, part of Abbey national plc I am also engaged in matters with MNBA who are curently offering to reduce my debts with them by 40% but telling me that theses debts are due to be Legally assigned ?, and that there offers may not be available if this happens, i would appreciate any advice Thanks