Overpayments: understanding and challenging
Course outline
Overpaid benefit is not always recoverable. Learn how to spot unlawful recovery and reduce or eliminate the amount of overpaid benefit being recovered.
Please note this course covers social security benefits. Overpayments of housing/council tax benefit or tax credits, are covered, respectively, in our ‘Housing benefit – the tricky bits’ and ‘Tax credits – the tricky bits’ courses.
Learning objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- identify when an overpayment can be challenged
- explain what decision makers mean by 'failure to disclose', 'misrepresentation' and 'material fact'
- describe the implications of fraud, offsetting and common law recovery
- challenge the rate of recovery
What have previous delegates said about this course?
"A very enjoyable day full of good clear information and the opportunity for group work and discussion I will be feeding back to colleagues the need for them to attend as well."
"Enjoyed it, very interesting and challenging."
"Good course, well taught, useful exercises, would recommend it to colleagues."
"trainer excellent."
Course accreditation
| Level | CPD | NOS |
| Advanced | 5 Hours | LA50 |
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Dates and venues
Duration one day 10.00am to 4.00pm
| Course Code | Date | Venue |
| 12T1OUC1 | 24 April 2012 | Manchester |
| 12T1OUC2 | 20 September 2012 | London |
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