DWP payment code ?

Littlemisscrazy

Hi I have just had a payment from the DWP & the payment code is CSHR Does anyone know what this payment is ?

Thanks in advance
Little miss

Horseunderwater

What benefits do you claim - it may then be easier for someone to figure out.

Littlemisscrazy

Horseunderwater wrote: »

What benefits do you claim - it may then be easier for someone to figure out.

Thanks for the reply

I claim the following

Income support.. IC
Carers allowance CA
Child Benefit CB
Unknown payment CSHR

p00hsticks

how much is the payment ? If £25 could it be a cold weather payment ? (from the list of benefits you give it's not possible to say for definite if you do or don't qualify for these)

C.C.L.

CSH normally refers to cash, and the 'R' could mean refund, although I can't see why the DWP would have it entered this way.

Whiteknight

Could be Civil Service Human Resources, if it is just a one off payment could be someone selected the wrong option when using CPS to pay.

Littlemisscrazy

p00hsticks wrote: »

how much is the payment ? If £25 could it be a cold weather payment ? (from the list of benefits you give it's not possible to say for definite if you do or don't qualify for these)

A cold weather payment's code is CW Spent hours checking all my payments last night

The amount was a few hundred pounds its got me a little stressed to say the least,

Just going to leave it in the bank until someone claims it

Thanks for all the reply

helentay_2

Littlemisscrazy wrote: »

A cold weather payment's code is CW Spent hours checking all my payments last night

The amount was a few hundred pounds its got me a little stressed to say the least,

Just going to leave it in the bank until someone claims it

Thanks for all the reply

I had something similar in 2001. We were claiming Income Support including help with the mortgage.

It took quite a while for it to be sorted out. How surprised was I when eventually they paid just over £3000 to the Abbey National. It brought the arrears down by half. We already had a pending repossession notice. Now we had only £3000 or arrears to clear at £100 a month + the normal payments (which were covered by the DWP). Then we had a letter from the bank's solicitor telling us that the Order had been withdrawn as the mortgage account was now in credit???? I spoke to them and they said that another £3000 had been paid in by the DWP!!!

I never could work out where it came from or why, but we just accepted it and kept quiet. No one asked us for the money back. Yes I think that they paid us twice for the arrears of benefit.

Littlemisscrazy

helentay wrote: »

I had something similar in 2001. We were claiming Income Support including help with the mortgage.

It took quite a while for it to be sorted out. How surprised was I when eventually they paid just over £3000 to the Abbey National. It brought the arrears down by half. We already had a pending repossession notice. Now we had only £3000 or arrears to clear at £100 a month + the normal payments (which were covered by the DWP). Then we had a letter from the bank's solicitor telling us that the Order had been withdrawn as the mortgage account was now in credit???? I spoke to them and they said that another £3000 had been paid in by the DWP!!!

I never could work out where it came from or why, but we just accepted it and kept quiet. No one asked us for the money back. Yes I think that they paid us twice for the arrears of benefit.

At least it got you out of a hole & saved your home

I had a sleepless night last night wondering why it had been paid into my account, Just going to wait for a letter its All i can do really

Kol_2

One possibility is CSHR = Client Should Have Received.
If you were underpaid in a previous instalment of your benefit, after a recalculation, the gap was made up by this payment.

Morlock

helentay wrote: »

I had something similar in 2001. We were claiming Income Support including help with the mortgage.

It took quite a while for it to be sorted out. How surprised was I when eventually they paid just over £3000 to the Abbey National. It brought the arrears down by half. We already had a pending repossession notice. Now we had only £3000 or arrears to clear at £100 a month + the normal payments (which were covered by the DWP). Then we had a letter from the bank's solicitor telling us that the Order had been withdrawn as the mortgage account was now in credit???? I spoke to them and they said that another £3000 had been paid in by the DWP!!!

I never could work out where it came from or why, but we just accepted it and kept quiet. No one asked us for the money back. Yes I think that they paid us twice for the arrears of benefit.

Because you have not been asked for the money back, yet, does not mean that you won't be asked at some point in the future. It is not unknown for the DWP to reclaim overpayments dating back 10+ years.

Openly admitting possible benefit fraud on a public forum is very noble, but perhaps not the wisest decision you have made. Your anonymity on the internet is paper thin, and one court order can expose your true identity.