Overpayment of jobseeker's allowance, do you legally have to return it?

System

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

A payment plan for £38.50?

Ok....i didn't see that bit. I assumed by the uproar being made it was for a sum more than £40

looby75

I think the OP was simply asking if the payment could be deferred until he was working.

The answer is no but there is no harm in asking, is there.

Sometimes I wonder why anyone bothers asking a question on these boards, it seems that no matter what the question someone will jump in and start criticising the OP's lifestyle/morality/ethics/motivation :rolleyes:

Vader123

looby75 wrote: »

I think the OP was simply asking if the payment could be deferred until he was working.



The answer is no but there is no harm in asking, is there.

Well then he got the answer on the first post.

looby75 wrote: »

Sometimes I wonder why anyone bothers asking a question on these boards, it seems that no matter what the question someone will jump in and start criticising the OP's lifestyle/morality/ethics/motivation :rolleyes:

Reality check time.

If it was 20K for tax credits (like we have had on this board), or 30K for uinpaid child payments (like we have had on the "Child support" boards), then I would agree with you.

However this is for less than £40.

Its quite reasonable to say "borrow it", "get a couple of nights work for it", or "a payment plan for £40 won't work".

You brought the thread "off topic".

The OPs question was answered in post #2.

Vader

specsappeal

OK, now i was overpaid this year by the benefits office (if i remember rightly it was for around £45). i phoned them up to state that i had been overpaid and was told that - "you will receive a letter asking you to pay the money back but as it was our mistake you are not obliged to pay it back". Please dont shoot me down in flames as I am merely relating my experience of what i was told.

Vader123

specsappeal wrote: »

OK, now i was overpaid this year by the benefits office (if i remember rightly it was for around £45). i phoned them up to state that i had been overpaid and was told that - "you will receive a letter asking you to pay the money back but as it was our mistake you are not obliged to pay it back". Please dont shoot me down in flames as I am merely relating my experience of what i was told.

No one is going to shoot you down.

However the OP eludes in their first post that they owe the money.

The point of the question and reason for posting was to see if the OPs status as a student removes the liability to pay it back.

It clearly does not, and the OP has been told that.

Vader

Bogof_Babe

Sell a couple of CDs or something on Ebay.

custardy

speak to your postie and ask if they want their door to doors delivered
4 hours work would get you enough to pay that back

thorsoak

OP - you say in one of your posts that " have to say that I am doing a self funded degree, manage to commute to work every day and study for both my degree and another qualification whilst bringing up a family."

Does this mean that you are in receipt of other benefits as well? In which case will they not take the £38 from those benefits?

Mupette

thorsoak wrote: »

OP - you say in one of your posts that " have to say that I am doing a self funded degree, manage to commute to work every day and study for both my degree and another qualification whilst bringing up a family."

Does this mean that you are in receipt of other benefits as well? In which case will they not take the £38 from those benefits?

no that's Kimitastsu which is doing that the not the OP

NASA_2

I'm suprised they are even trying to recover it. Where I am anything under £65 is written off as too small an overpayment to be worth going after.