Income support overpayment repayments from dla

[deezel]

Hello

The dwp debt management have been taking regular payments of £39 from my dla for 18 months now for an overpayment of income support made previously ( my fault I inadvertedly filled in the original form wrong)

When they started taking money from my dla they wanted originally £90 a month

but as we are on pension guarantee credit they reduced the payments to £39 monthly saying that was the limit they could take if you were receiving pension credit

I have just had a letter from them saying they now are going to take £94 a month.

I rang them and they said I would need to fill in a income form and they might reduce the payments.

My feeling is that nothing has changed in our pension credit guarantee payments so why should I pay more and why should I fill in the form.

If they have limts for people to pay less on pension credit has that changed?

[Caspar]

Re: Income support overpayment repayments from dla

Basically because if you don't they will take £94 per month from you. However unfair it is, this is how they work!

[deezel]

Re: Income support overpayment repayments from dla

Basically because if you don't they will take £94 per month from you. However unfair it is, this is how they work!

yes, but if there is indeed guidelines or rules for people who are recipients of pension credit guarantee which in itself is acceptance by the dwp of limited income then why should they suddenly increase their demands?

[WendyB]

Re: Income support overpayment repayments from dla

Perhaps they need the form filled in to confirm there is no change in your circumstances.

[seduraed]

Re: Income support overpayment repayments from dla

new financial year , they're checking your circustances out again

[deezel]

Re: Income support overpayment repayments from dla

new financial year , they're checking your circustances out again

maybe, but this doesn't actually answer the original question ie: if there is a rule or guideline which caps the repayment amounts concerning recipients of pension credit then forms shouldn't really enter the argument.

receiving pension credit guarantee is a statement in itself of income!

[WendyB]

Re: Income support overpayment repayments from dla

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receiving pension credit guarantee is a statement in itself of income!

Maybe they need to confirm that you are still receiving PCG?

The whole point is that they need to check whether or not your circumstances have changed, and they need this confirming by you, hence the point of filling in the form.

personally I fail to see what the big deal is. Fact is if you don;t fill it in you are likely to be paying more, so you might as well fill it in and get it done with.

[deezel]

Re: Income support overpayment repayments from dla

Maybe they need to confirm that you are still receiving PCG?

The whole point is that they need to check whether or not your circumstances have changed, and they need this confirming by you, hence the point of filling in the form.

personally I fail to see what the big deal is. Fact is if you don;t fill it in you are likely to be paying more, so you might as well fill it in and get it done with.

Rang again today and apparently I was not listed as receiving PCG

I've now been told they will re-adjust the payments back to £39.

The objection is that it would be a totally unnecessary exercise

[WendyB]

Re: Income support overpayment repayments from dla

Rang again today and apparently I was not listed as receiving PCG

I've now been told they will re-adjust the payments back to £39.

The objection is that it would be a totally unnecessary exercise

Doesn't that just prove the point? You weren't listed as receiving PCG. If you had completed the form and returned it, it would have been noticed that you were receiving PCG, as presumably you would have stated so on the form, so hardly an unnecessary exercise. It is unnecessary now (presumably) because of the phone call you've made, which was in effect just another way of confirming your circumstances.

[deezel]

Re: Income support overpayment repayments from dla

Doesn't that just prove the point? You weren't listed as receiving PCG. If you had completed the form and returned it, it would have been noticed that you were receiving PCG, as presumably you would have stated so on the form, so hardly an unnecessary exercise. It is unnecessary now (presumably) because of the phone call you've made, which was in effect just another way of confirming your circumstances.

The point it proves is that there systems were at fault because I was on the record as having PCG, then suddenly I wasn't.

Also it took three phone calls to find a person willing to sort it out, hopefully.

Thirdly, to summarily put a persons repayments up without explanation ( original notification) should be a no no, shall I go on..............?

[WendyB]

Re: Income support overpayment repayments from dla

Please do.