I am fuming.
My wife had a phone call this morning and another one this afternoon. I dealt with both on her behalf. They claim she worked while on Income Support for 8 weeks in 2002 and claims she owes nearly £2000.
As she is in receipt of Carer's Allowance they intend to take this at a rate of £17.64 per week. I reminded them of a conversation (posted on here I think) a month ago where they promised not to take any further action until we had seen all the paperwork relating to this case. We have received nothing until a letter this morning stating she owes the money and are going to take it, hence the phone calls.
They have agreed to hold action until they receive my appeal letter and SAR and have responded to them. They even admitted on the phone THEY HAVE NO PAPERWORK RELATING TO THIS! How will they respond to an SAR requesting paperwork, e-mails, notes written and electronic etc... etc...
They claim they do not have to prove anything and can just take the money - surely this cannot be true? Surely I must (my wife must) have access to a court of law for this case to be heard or are the DWP really above the law? Can they really with NO evidence steal our money?
My wife had a phone call this morning and another one this afternoon. I dealt with both on her behalf. They claim she worked while on Income Support for 8 weeks in 2002 and claims she owes nearly £2000.
As she is in receipt of Carer's Allowance they intend to take this at a rate of £17.64 per week. I reminded them of a conversation (posted on here I think) a month ago where they promised not to take any further action until we had seen all the paperwork relating to this case. We have received nothing until a letter this morning stating she owes the money and are going to take it, hence the phone calls.
They have agreed to hold action until they receive my appeal letter and SAR and have responded to them. They even admitted on the phone THEY HAVE NO PAPERWORK RELATING TO THIS! How will they respond to an SAR requesting paperwork, e-mails, notes written and electronic etc... etc...
They claim they do not have to prove anything and can just take the money - surely this cannot be true? Surely I must (my wife must) have access to a court of law for this case to be heard or are the DWP really above the law? Can they really with NO evidence steal our money?
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