Recovery of JSA overpayment

cosmic-dust

stressed21 wrote: »

Thats exactly where i'm coming from cosmic-dust, i probably should have worded it better! Apologies.

You need to do this sooner rather than later, IIRC it's a GL24 form.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Diol1/DoItOnline/DG_4017514

McKneff

No point in digging your heels in and saying 'see you in court' this will just land you with more debt, court fees etc and a ccj and no credit for years. You cannot win, its as simple as that.

Appeal it, and if they refuse, then offer a payment plan.

It really is all you can do.

Arg

Under what legislation are they asking for repayment?

suelees1

Arg wrote: »

Under what legislation are they asking for repayment?

If you appeal you will get all this info in the appeal papers AND they won't continue to recover whilst the appeal is being processed

gemstargirl

bobajob_1966 wrote: »

First rule of managing debt - throwing your dummy out and saying 'I'll see you in court' will lead to ... a CCJ!

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Rubbish!!! You can only have a CCJ registered against you for a debt if it has been proved in court that you actually owe the money! Until a judgement has been given it is one person's word against anothers' that the money is said to be owed.

Which college or university in which country did you pass your law examination? Uganda?

To say that seeing you in court will lead to a CCJ is nothing more than twaddle!!

gemstargirl

suelees1 wrote: »

If you appeal you will get all this info in the appeal papers AND they won't continue to recover whilst the appeal is being processed

Not quite correct is it?

If you start any form of repayment or deduction from benefit, then they WILL NOT stop recovery whilst appealing.

Not everything is as black and white as you are making out!

suelees1

gemstargirl wrote: »

Not quite correct is it?

If you start any form of repayment or deduction from benefit, then they WILL NOT stop recovery whilst appealing.

Not everything is as black and white as you are making out!

You are quite right.

rogerblack

Tory70 wrote: »

It is all done on paper; there is no attending court.

Unless of course the DWP think you've been dishonestly attempting to claim, and the amounts are large enough to trigger a criminal case.

As other people have said, but perhaps not quite expicitly.
If the payment error is solely due to the DWP, with you having done everything reasonable to inform them of changes, then this may be an 'official error'.
Payments made due to official errors are generally not recoverable.

You need to appeal the decision to recover the money paid, within 30 days of it being made.
Request a 'written statement of reasons' for the decision over the phone now if close to that, this will extend the deadline a couple of weeks after it's sent, and let you know what the exact reasons were.