UC review - 4 months statement. Help!

marsrover

Auti said:

I think you will need to contact via journal and tell them exactly when and what your change in circumstances was regards housing benefit. Ensure the housing benefit is stopped straight away. 

Also explain about your mental health conditions and they may not add a fine. You will need to work out a payment plan to repay the money you were not entitled to.

Do it now because it will not go away and if you contact them and tell them it will be less stressful for you in the long run. They are not allowed to take all your money to repay debt only a percentage.

Take care - you will get through it.

Thank you for your understanding nature in your reply. That's very reassuring and I will tell them right away. Thank you. 

teaselMay

Be honest with them now, straight away today.

Don't panic.

You will have to pay back what you weren't entitled to, but it's at something like 15% of the basic entitlement each month (Google you'll find it)

Muttleythefrog

Agree with above... be open and honest and swift and get the matter resolved. It won't help your mental health at all to have the matter hanging over your head and it could lead to simply bigger issues. I would mention you are having significant mental health problems and dealing with a lot of changes and, if true, that are causing you difficulties and administratively you've struggled but are happy to repay any overpayment of benefits.

TELLIT01

marsrover said:

huckster said:

Review will proceed, as part of the current UC process. The review is now an ongoing process and anyone on UC can be expected to provide documents requires at any stage of their claims.

So what happens if I don't give them the statements? I take it they'll just stop my payments and that'll be that?

How can the review proceed if I close my claim and take myself off UC?

In which circumstances will the review proceed? In all that I have mentioned?

Thanks 

I don't see how closing the claim will help, as they will just request the information again in order to process the new claim.  Attempting to hide funds is fraud, plain and simple.  DWP now has the power to investigate all financial interests of a claimant/past claimant if they suspect fraud.

The obvious assumption from the desperation to hide bank information is that fraud may already be being committed.  That may or may not be the case, but will almost certainly be flagged as a possibility.

peteuk

TELLIT01 said:

marsrover said:

huckster said:

Review will proceed, as part of the current UC process. The review is now an ongoing process and anyone on UC can be expected to provide documents requires at any stage of their claims.

So what happens if I don't give them the statements? I take it they'll just stop my payments and that'll be that?

How can the review proceed if I close my claim and take myself off UC?

In which circumstances will the review proceed? In all that I have mentioned?

Thanks 

I don't see how closing the claim will help, as they will just request the information again in order to process the new claim.  Attempting to hide funds is fraud, plain and simple.  DWP now has the power to investigate all financial interests of a claimant/past claimant if they suspect fraud.

The obvious assumption from the desperation to hide bank information is that fraud may already be being committed.  That may or may not be the case, but will almost certainly be flagged as a possibility.

I agree, closing the claim doesnt make the over payment go away, and would look less favourable on you should you take this course of action.  If you've got evidence of your notification to the council then use that to explain you thought you'd sorted it, but due to your health issue didn’t realise it didn’t.

When reviewing your finance they may well spot no rent payments and question where it is?  As mentioned you can ask for any over payment to be taken out of your UC over time, or if you get to the point of not claiming you can set up an agreement plan to pay it back at a set rate.