RLA Landlord Training Course : Reclaiming Overpaid Housing Benefit

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Reclaiming Overpaid Housing Benefit

Since April 2006, the tenant who causes the problem should refund overpayments made by the Council. Learn how you can appeal as the landlord. A new course will take you though the entire process from the time the Local Authority decides to recover an overpayment from you to the Appeal Tribunal itself.

The Course will show you how to complain effectively about the Local Authorities that take a long time to process Housing Benefit Claims and to obtain interim payments.

Who should attend?

All landlords taking Housing Benefit Tenants

Content includes

MAKING OF A HOUSING BENEFIT CLAIM AND:

• What is required before a claim is determined
• The Verification framework
• The Visiting Officer
• Interim Payments #Action against Councils that are slow to process HB Claims.
• Tenants leaving before the claim is determined
• The rules about the payment of the first cheque.
• Councils "Waiting for information"

APPEALS AGAINST RECOVERY OF OVERPAID HOUSING BENEFIT:

• The New Notification letter and what it should legally contain and who should receive it. (There are new Rules!!)
• Your right to an internal Review and the time limits.
• If the Internal review maintain that you have been overpaid, what the rejection letter must tell you about time limits and where to Appeal next.
• Late Application for a revision
• Appeal to a Tribunal.
• The Composition of Appeal Tribunals and Procedures.
• Searching questions you can ask the Council at the Tribunal.
• Standard Appeal letters.
• Appeal to a Commissioner.
• Reg 5(5)(d) - Payment on 2 properties for 28 days.

This course currently has no dates arranged but additional dates are being planned.

Additional Dates

We are currently planning additional dates for this course. If you would like to be informed when these are arranged, please click here.

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