Thursday, 17 October 2019

Council Owed £5.5m In Housing Benefit That It Overpaid To Residents


Stockport council is currently owed more than £5.5m in housing benefits it has wrongly paid out to residents. The figure represents the total amount of money outstanding - including from previous years - that is yet to be recouped by the authority. Overpayments made to people in receipt of the benefit totalled £2.2m over the last financial year, while some £354,000 was written off over the same period. The council - which was owed a total of £5.8m at the end of 2018/19 - has warned it will ‘exhaust all reasonable avenues’ in order to recover the money. Read more on the MEN website.

No comments: