Housing Benefit situation please help me!
miss.S_6
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hi
I was claiming job seekers allowance back in 2007, I didn't claim for a few weeks but continued to receive housing benefit, (I was living in a residential place where the key workers paid it automatically) I then left the place I was living so the housing benefit payments would have been cancelled.
I owed literally a few weeks payments worth of benefits.
Now housing benefit from that borough are claiming I owe them more than £3000. I have asked them numerous times to send me a detailed breakdown of the dates (which state where this figure of £3000 has come from.) They cannot.
I have also asked Job Seekers to send me a breakdown of when I was receiving benefits, but I have been told their new system gets rid of that information and only has information backdating to 2011.
I really need evidence of the exact dates somehow what can I do? is there someway i could try inland revenue to send me p45's from back in 2007? I need some proof of where the £3000 figure has materialised from.
thankyou
I was claiming job seekers allowance back in 2007, I didn't claim for a few weeks but continued to receive housing benefit, (I was living in a residential place where the key workers paid it automatically) I then left the place I was living so the housing benefit payments would have been cancelled.
I owed literally a few weeks payments worth of benefits.
Now housing benefit from that borough are claiming I owe them more than £3000. I have asked them numerous times to send me a detailed breakdown of the dates (which state where this figure of £3000 has come from.) They cannot.
I have also asked Job Seekers to send me a breakdown of when I was receiving benefits, but I have been told their new system gets rid of that information and only has information backdating to 2011.
I really need evidence of the exact dates somehow what can I do? is there someway i could try inland revenue to send me p45's from back in 2007? I need some proof of where the £3000 figure has materialised from.
thankyou
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hi
I was claiming job seekers allowance back in 2007, I didn't claim for a few weeks but continued to receive housing benefit, (I was living in a residential place where the key workers paid it automatically) I then left the place I was living so the housing benefit payments would have been cancelled.
I owed literally a few weeks payments worth of benefits.
Now housing benefit from that borough are claiming I owe them more than £3000. I have asked them numerous times to send me a detailed breakdown of the dates (which state where this figure of £3000 has come from.) They cannot.
I have also asked Job Seekers to send me a breakdown of when I was receiving benefits, but I have been told their new system gets rid of that information and only has information backdating to 2011.
I really need evidence of the exact dates somehow what can I do? is there someway i could try inland revenue to send me p45's from back in 2007? I need some proof of where the £3000 figure has materialised from.
thankyou
Dear Miss S
Apologies for not giving a prompt reply-we normally respond to the posts in the Housing Benefit thread.
Your situation calls for dedicated advice and support which doesn't really work in a public forum. Could you get to your local CAB? You can find the address and opening hours at http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/
Alternatively you could seek an appointment with an officer at your local authority Finance Department office“Official CAB Representative
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