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DWP debt management taking all of UC back payment
seanny
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I recently won a DWP tribunal and was put in limited capability to work group. This involved a substantial back payment of arrears being due to me. I have received none of this as DWP debt management have taken it all as payment towards an outstanding amount owed.
Can they do this?
Can they do this?
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Yes, I believe they can.I recently won a DWP tribunal and was put in limited capability to work group. This involved a substantial back payment of arrears being due to me. I have received none of this as DWP debt management have taken it all as payment towards an outstanding amount owed.
Can they do this?Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Some rules may be different in other parts of UK.0 -
yes definitely they can take money owed to them from any benefits they pay you even if they have to wait until you get your state pension, OP might be worth you coming to agreement to pay the balance?0
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I recently won a DWP tribunal and was put in limited capability to work group. This involved a substantial back payment of arrears being due to me. I have received none of this as DWP debt management have taken it all as payment towards an outstanding amount owed.
Can they do this?
Yes.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-overpayment-recovery-staff-guide
Page 35
"5.49 Where a debtor with an outstanding overpayment is due arrears of benefit, these arrears can be withheld in full to recover an overpayment or Administrative Penalty unless those arrears arose as a consequence of a benefit award being suspended...."
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-debt-management-performance-data/dwp-debt-management-customer-service-standards
FYI - If you think they have breached this guidance.Alice Holt Forest situated some 4 miles south of Farnham forms the most northerly gateway to the South Downs National Park.0
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