Soo... benefits want to charge me £3000? help.

jojo_2012_2

pleading ignorance is a good trick but it never works the way you hope it will.

Mehman_2

helpful...

Mupette

i think your just looking for a way not to pay this money back... that is not what we are here for.

If you genuinely believe you shouldn't contact a solicitor

Oldernotwiser

suelees1 wrote: »

99% of the posters on here simply don't know the law but they're so quick to judge. People in glass houses always comes to mind.

Hardly a relevant analogy.

Lady_gaga

Arg wrote: »

Neither are some of the morons in this thread who should p iss off to the discussion time section of these forums if they want to moan about benefits.

It's hardly moaning about benefits. I have no problem with people getting the benefits they're ENTITLED to.
A question was asked and the OP doesn't like the answers they're getting because it isn't all fluffy and nice and what they want to hear. If you read through the OP's posts you will see very clearly they couldn't be bothered to go through their paper work because it "wasn't a fun Friday night" he obviously knew the money going in was for benefits he was no longer entitled to but continued to spend that money on top of tax credits and wages!!
must have been living the life of riley for a while there, now he's been caught out and is complaining he has to pay it back, he's just lucky they don't add interest on to it!!!

On another note OP, you say HB/CTB aren't involved? I take it by that you must have informed them of your change in circumstances straight away? otherwise you can expect a big bill from them also in the not too distant future.

mspa

All being a little harsh I think. The benefits system can be very confusing, I was lucky when I was on benefits 12 years ago I was a single parent and had a lone parent advisor who was brilliant but a short time ago unfortunately I had to claim JSA for a short time and that was a nightmare, no help at all.

If you have a record of the date you rang up and asked why you were still recieving the extra money then surely from that date it is their fault, before that then Im afraid I doubt theres much you can do but try to set up a payment plan that you can afford to pay it back. I have always found CAB to be very helpful.

Oldernotwiser

mspa wrote: »

If you have a record of the date you rang up and asked why you were still recieving the extra money then surely from that date it is their fault, before that then Im afraid I doubt theres much you can do but try to set up a payment plan that you can afford to pay it back. I have always found CAB to be very helpful.

How is just giving a date proof of what's been said? If you ring anybody official up to give information ( banks, hospital etc)., you'd either follow it up in writing or would phone again if you didn't receive confirmation from them.

You don't just make a quick call to a call centre and assume it's all been sorted, particularly when it's blatantly obvious that it hasn't been!

mspa

Obvioulsy it would have to be in writing to prove it, some bad tempered people on here. I also suggested working out how to pay it back.

Oldernotwiser

mspa wrote: »

Obvioulsy it would have to be in writing to prove it, some bad tempered people on here. I also suggested working out how to pay it back.

I'm not being bad tempered but you're being inaccurate.

Only two posts ago you said

"If you have a record of the date you rang up and asked why you were still recieving the extra money then surely from that date it is their fault"

Where is there any mention in there of the fact that you assumed the OP had received written confirmation of his call or that he had written to confirm this himself? There is nothing in your post about anyone writing anything!

mspa

perhaps I wrongly assumed you would understand that, record would mean written, I have rang up various places and it often states calls are recorded also. Even if proof was found I think that the amount overpaid would have to be paid back anyway.