Letter from DWP Demanding

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ZoeB23 wrote: »

Cheers for the sarcastic response, hope they've made you feel better about yourself.

sorry but what was sarcastic? or was it the fact that you didnt like the advice?

ZoeB23

woodbine wrote: »

sorry but what was sarcastic? or was it the fact that you didnt like the advice?

Yeh that's what is was :T

Thanks also for your input

NYM

Contact them and ask if he can repay it in instalments.

shegirl

Oh dear!

Ask to pay in instalments. It's not possible to not know a dwp loan is actually a loan and that you have to pay it back.

natty16

My partner received a demand for £200 from DWP a couple of weeks ago. He phoned and was told it was from a crisis loan he took out 15 years ago. We were not together that long ago but it is likely that he did take a crisis loan at the time although he could not say he definitely did and he was not aware it had not been repaid. He has arranged for the DWP to send details and he will pay back £20 per month.

ZoeB23

natty16 wrote: »

My partner received a demand for £200 from DWP a couple of weeks ago. He phoned and was told it was from a crisis loan he took out 15 years ago. We were not together that long ago but it is likely that he did take a crisis loan at the time although he could not say he definitely did and he was not aware it had not been repaid. He has arranged for the DWP to send details and he will pay back £20 per month.

Thank you natty for your reply I appreciate it

patman99

It might be because the DWP can sometimes be devious. When they sanctioned me last year, the JC told me I could apply for a crisis payment. No mention of the word loan or that it was to be paid-back.

Luckily, my oh qualified for ESA, so I had no need to partake of the crisis payment.

If you speak to them, they will be more than happy to allow payment over a period of time.

Robbie64

patman99 wrote: »

It might be because the DWP can sometimes be devious. When they sanctioned me last year, the JC told me I could apply for a crisis payment. No mention of the word loan or that it was to be paid-back.

Luckily, my oh qualified for ESA, so I had no need to partake of the crisis payment.

If you speak to them, they will be more than happy to allow payment over a period of time.

The crisis payment you mention that you could have applied for will have been a Hardship Payment of JSA. These payments of JSA are not repayable. As an aside, it is worth noting that hardship payments of Universal Credit (which is gradually replacing income based JSA including hardship payments of JSA) are recoverable.

Crisis Loans are not the same as hardship payments. Crisis Loans (which can no longer be claimed from the DWP) have always been recoverable. When the person claimed a Crisis Loan they were made aware that the loan was repayable.