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Incorrect benefit payment?

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  • Pepzofio
    Pepzofio Posts: 540 Forumite
    I still don't understand how they got £90/wk from £200, even if they did think it was monthly - £200 x 12 = £2,400 / 52 = £46.15/wk. Unless you have other income, but you have already said this is not the case...?

    And why would they divide it by 48wks rather than 52?
  • Surfer
    Surfer Posts: 361 Forumite
    They do not understand how they arrived at that figure and those were the figures on the most recent letter which rang the alarm bells. The previous letter did not indicate this at all and was very ambigiuos.

    As we are council tenants, there are only 48 weeks in a year that you pay rent.
  • Pepzofio
    Pepzofio Posts: 540 Forumite
    Surfer wrote: »
    They do not understand how they arrived at that figure and those were the figures on the most recent letter which rang the alarm bells. The previous letter did not indicate this at all and was very ambigiuos.

    As we are council tenants, there are only 48 weeks in a year that you pay rent.

    Ahh... I see. I'd always assumed they just didn't pay you for the rent free weeks.
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